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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Mathias Springham''' (1561–1620) was an English merchant who was involved with the [[plantation of Ulster]].<ref>W.S. Ferguson, 'Mathias Springham, 1561-1620', ''London and Middlesex Archaeological Society'', XXIII Part 2 (1972), pp. 194 ff.</ref><ref name=prendy>C.W. Russell and J.P. Prendergast (eds), ''Calendar of the State Papers, Relating to Ireland: 1615-1625'' (HMSO, London 1880), [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZVcMAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA120 pp. 120-121, item 238] (Google).</ref><ref name=sources>B.C. Donovan and D. Edwards (eds), ''British Sources for Irish History, 1485-1641: A Guide to Manuscripts in Local, Regional, and Specialised Repositories in England, Scotland, and Wales'', Irish Manuscripts Commission (Dublin, 1997), pp. 127-28.</ref> He was the brother of Richard Springham of [[Kingsclere]], Hampshire (died 1620).<ref>Will of Richard Springham of Kingsclere, Hampshire (P.C.C. 1621, Dale quire).</ref> he helped building the Londonderry walls and established a free school in society street, 6 countys of Ulster were to receive a royal school but Londonderry did not so Mathias springham seen this and in 1617 he built a 2 storey small house in the walls which later in 1814 became Foyle College Old Boys at Lawrence hill.<br />
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==Merchant Taylor==<br />
Presented to the [[Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors|Merchant Taylors' Company]] of [[London]] by Charles Hoskyns in 1588, he was appointed Chief Butler for the occasion in 1607 upon which James I, the queen and prince were banqueted at the Company Hall, and supplied a requisition of 19 ells of taffeta to clothe the three singers brought into the feast in a ship.<ref>C.M. Clode, ''Memorials Of The Guild Of Merchant Taylors'' (Harrison and Sons, London 1875), [https://archive.org/details/ClodeCMMemorialsOfTheGuildOfMerchantTaylorsOfTheFraternityOfSt.JohnTheBaptistInTheCityOfLondon1875/page/n233/mode/2up?q=Springham p. 148], and [https://archive.org/details/ClodeCMMemorialsOfTheGuildOfMerchantTaylorsOfTheFraternityOfSt.JohnTheBaptistInTheCityOfLondon1875/page/n263/mode/2up p. 177] (Internet Archive).</ref> He served with Isaack Holloway as First and Second Warden in 1615–16, and he became Master of that Company (as successor to Charles Hoskyns) in 1617–18.<ref>C.M. Clode, ''The Early History of the Guild of Merchant Taylors'', 2 vols (Harrison and Sons, London 1888), II, [https://archive.org/details/earlyhistoryofgu02clod/page/344/mode/2up p. 345] (Internet Archive).</ref><br />
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==Ulster==<br />
Active in commissions to the plantation in Ulster from 1613 (as assistant to Alderman George Smith),<ref name=sources/><ref>P. Logue and J. O'Neill, 'Excavations at Bishop's Street Without: 17th Century conflict archaeology in Derry City', in T. Pollard and I. Banks (eds), ''War and Sacrifice: Studies in the Archaeology of Conflict'' (Brill, Leiden/Boston 2007), pp. 49-76, [https://books.google.com/books?id=RgT6tHcgwzQC&pg=PA52 at p. 52] (Google).</ref><ref>J. Morrin (ed.), ''Calendar of the Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery in Ireland, of the Reign of Charles I'', Anno 1-8 (HMSO, Dublin 1863), [https://books.google.com/books?id=nWBAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA631 p. 631] (Google).</ref> in 1617 he founded the Free Grammar School in Society Street, [[Derry]], now [[Foyle and Londonderry College]], for 'the honour of God and the spreading of good literature'.<ref>R. Simpson, ''The Annals of Derry: Showing the Rise and Progress of the Town'' (Londonderry-Hempton 1847), [https://books.google.com/books?id=YJMNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA261 pp. 261-65] (Google).</ref><br />
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He was survived by his wife, his son and heir Henry, and his daughters Anne Cutts and Mary Purkell.<ref>Ferguson, 'Mathias Springham', p. 200.</ref><ref>Will of Mathias Springham of Richmond, Middlesex (P.C.C. 1620, Soame quire).</ref><br />
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