1. In the name of God Amen. The 13th day of June in the year of Our Lord God 1523 and in the 15th year of the reign of King Henry VIII, I, Thomas Spring of Lavenham in the county of Suffolk and in the diocese of Norwich, cloth-maker, being of whole mind and memory and perfect remembrance and verily knowing that there is nothing more sure or more certain to any creature in this wretched world than death, which every creature living inevitably must suffer, and nothing more unsure and uncertain than the dreadful hour thereof, fully disposing and purposing myself by the mercy, grace and help of the most merciful Lord Christ Jesus to be at all and every time and hour ready, do make my last will and testament in manner and form following:

2. First I annul and revoke all other wills and testaments ever afore this day made and declared, and will that every of them shall be of no strength nor effect.

3. Item, I bequeath my soul to Almighty God, to his Blessed Mother Mary, and to all the holy company of heaven, and my body to be buried in the church of Lavenham before the altar of Saint Katherine where I will be made a tomb with a parclose thereabout by the discretion of mine executors.

4. Item, I bequeath to the high altar of Lavenham for my tithes and offerings negligently forgotten and not paid 100s.

5. Item, I will that satisfaction and restitution be made to every person complaining and duly proving any injury, wrong, extortion, oppression, deceit or any misbehaving or demeaning against reason and conscience by me to them done in any wise.

6. Item, I will that immediately after my decease in as hasty time as it may be conveniently done, there shall be a thousand Masses sung for the wealth of my soul.

7. Item, I give and bequeath to every of the houses of friars of Clare, Sudbury, Babwell, two houses of friars in Thetford and the nuns of Thetford to pray for my soul and all my benefactors’ souls and to every of them 40s.