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English: Monumental brass effigy of Thomas Spring (died 7 Sept 1486) and his wife Margaret in Lavenham Church, Suffolk. Four sons on left (Thomas, William, James, John), six(?seven/one missing in top left) daughters on right (Cecily,Marian, others unknown). They are shown rising up from their coffins still wrapped in their burial shrouds. His merchant mark is shown at top left. For Latin text see Visitation of Suffolk, 1561, 1866 edition, Vol.1, p.167[1]:
Orate pro animabus Thomae Spring qui hoc vestibulum fieri fecit in vita sua et Margaretae uxoris eius qui quidem Thomas obiit septimo die mensis septembris anno domini millensimo CCCCLXXXVIo et predictae Margareta obiit anno domini millensimo CCCCLXXX quorum animabus propitietur deus amen.
("Pray ye all for the souls of Thomas Spring who in his lifetime caused this little hall (i.e. vestry) to come into existence and of Margaret his wife; which Thomas died on the seventh day of the month of september in the year of our lord the one thousanth four hundredth and eighty-sixth and the foresaid Margaret died in the year of our lord the one thousanth four hundredth and eightieth on the souls of whom may god look on with favour amen").
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