SPURSTOWE, William (bef. 1585-1646), of St Stephen Coleman Street, London.

Mercantile: member, E. I. Co. by 1621; cttee. by July 1625-July 1641.CSP Col. E.I. 1617–21, p. 505; 1625–9, p. 80; Cal. Ct. Mins. E.I. Co. 1640–43, p. 177. Asst. Massachusetts Bay Co. by July 1629–?Recs. of the Governor and Co. of the Massachusetts Bay in New England ed. N.B. Shurtleff (Boston Mass. 1853–4), i. 48, 50, 51, 56, 58. Member, Levant Co. by 1637.SP105/149, p. 284.

Religious: juryman, St Stephen’s Coleman Street, London 1622, 1631; vestryman, 1623 – 38; auditor, 1624, 1626 – 28, 1631, 1633; feoffee for parish lands, 1626 – 33; feoffee for tithes, 1633–?8.GL, 4458/1; D.A. Kirby, ‘The Radicals of St Stephen’s Coleman St., London, 1624–1642’, Guildhall Misc. iii. 119.

Civic: member, London ct. of requests, 1624, 1633. Common councilman, London 1625–7.GL, 4458/1; Kirby, ‘Radicals of St Stephen’s Coleman St.’, 119.

Local: commr. assurances, London 27 Sept. 1631.C181/4, f. 102.

Central: member, recess cttee. 9 Sept. 1641;CJ ii. 288b. cttee. of navy and customs, 19 Aug. 1642;CJ ii. 728a. cttee. for advance of money, 26 Nov. 1642;CCAM 1; CJ ii. 963a. cttee. for plundered ministers, 31 Dec. 1642, 9 Aug. 1644;CJ ii. 909a; iii. 585a. cttee. for compounding, 28 Sept. 1643;CJ iii. 258a. cttee. for foreign plantations, 2 Nov. 1643; cttee. for excise, 6 June 1645.A. and O.