01. William Sandes or Sandys01. William Sandes or Sandys| m.1. Mabel Brigges (nιe ____, ? ?) | Joseph Foster (1873) Pedigrees of the County Families of England. Vol. I Lancashire. London; E.S. Sandys (1930) The Family of Sandys, Barrow in Furness; privately printed | |
| Children with first wife: | Margaret (? 1606) and Barbara (? ?) | Foster (1873); Sandys (1930); Find a Grave |
| m.2. Agnes Strickland (? ?) | Foster (1873) | |
| Child with second wife: | Francis (? 1583) | Lancashire Wills & Probate; Foster (1873); Sandys (1930) |
| c. 1549 | of Colton Hall, Staffordshire, and subsequently of Conishead Priory, which he purchased of the Feoffees of the Crown 2 Edw. VI; by this purchase he also acquired the tithes on Gleston fflat | Foster (1873); Sandys (1930) |
| 1550-12-16 | appointed to serve on a commission in Lancashire to collect certain payments | Sandys (1930), citing Calendar of Patent Rolls |
| 1552-11-28 | served on a commission to make an inquisition post mortem in Westmorland on William Thornborow, Knt | Sandys (1930) |
| bailiff of the Liberties of Furness | Foster (1873); Sandys (1930) | |
| of Esthwaite, Lancashire | Sandys (1930) | |
| 1557-08-16 | made his will; demised his manor of Conishead, with all other estates in Yorkshire &c., to Francis his son, and to his heirs and, in default, the reversion to his two daughters and their heirs, and in default of such to his brother Myles | Foster (1873) |
| 1558-08-16 | "was very riotously and wilfully murdered at Conyshead" | Foster (1873), citing Inq. p.m. Duchy of Lancaster 1 Elizabeth; Sandys (1930) |
| bur. St Mary with Holy Trinity church, Ulverston, Lancashire, with an effigy; his funeral banner still hung there in 1930 | Sandys (1930) | |
| 1559 | at the examination at Preston concerning his death, "John Rawlenson of Furness ffels said that William Sandes was murdered on account of certain Tythe corns which were in his possession, and which the sons and servants of William Bardsye, Esq., attempted to carry away. The sons were Nicholas and Robert, and the name of the servant was John Trogheton; but this deponent did not know who gave the mortal blow." Another witness affirmed that "there were about 50 men and women present at the murder," and stated that William Bardseye bore malice against William Sandes on account of a privy seal delivered to him by the latter for concealing a piece of land from the Queen. Bardsye subsequently fled to Scotland, where he lived secretly till he could obtain the Queen's pardon. |
| c. 1510 | b. | The Descendants of Robert de Sandes |
| m. Richard Braithwaite (? ?, of Ambleside, Westmorland) | ||
| Child: | Robert (before 1550 ?, b. Ambleside) | |
| left a legacy by her father | Joseph Foster (1873) Pedigrees of the County Families of England. Vol. I Lancashire. London |
| c. 1517 | b. Esthwaite Hall, Lancashire | Joseph Foster (1873) Pedigrees of the County Families of England. Vol. I Lancashire. London; E.S. Sandys (1930) The Family of Sandys, Barrow in Furness; privately printed |
| m. Anne Mann (? ?, d. of Robert Mann, of St Leonard's, Shoreditch, Middlesex) | Foster (1873); Sandys (1930) | |
| Children: | Cicely (? ?), Jane (? before 1634), and Edwin (? 1625) | Foster (1873); Sandys (1930); Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |
| 1583 | brought a suit against Jane, the wife of his nephew Francis, in regard to the messuages and lands called the Farmhold Esthwaite in Furness Fells; won his case, which was doubtless based on his father's will, as he is subsequently described as of Esthwaite | Foster (1873); Sandys (1930), citing Calendar to Pleadings Ducatus Lancastriζ |
| 1591-10 | made his will | E.S. Sandys (1930) The Family of Sandys, Barrow in Furness; privately printed, citing an unsigned will, at Graythwaite Hall |
| 1591-11-13 | bur. Hawkshead, Lancashire | Foster (1873); Sandys (1930) |
| 1591/2-01-15 | of Estwhaite, Hawkshead; will proved in Furness deanery, archdeaconry of Richmond; entailed his estate of Esthwaite upon the male issue of his son Edwin, reversion to the right heir of William Sandys, his father | Lancashire Wills & Probate; Foster (1873); Sandys (1930) |
| m. Isabella Waller (? 1609/10, d. of George Waller) | Joseph Foster (1873) Pedigrees of the County Families of England. Vol. I Lancashire. London; E.S. Sandys (1930) The Family of Sandys, Barrow in Furness; privately printed | |
| Children: | Roger (? 1610), Agnes (? after 1571), Margaret (? after 1575), and Elizabeth (? after 1576), all b. Lancashire | |
| of Field Head (Graythwaite), Lancashire | ||
| 1547-09-10 | killed fighting against the Scots at the Battle of Pinkie, on Mussleboro Field, Scotland |
| d.s.p. | E.S. Sandys (1930) The Family of Sandys, Barrow in Furness; privately printed |
07. Most Rev. Edwin Sandys, MA, DD| 1519 | b. Esthwaite Hall, near Hawkshead, Lancashire, "where he would later found the grammar school attended by William Wordsworth" | Joseph Foster (1873) Pedigrees of the County Families of England. Vol. I Lancashire. London; E.S. Sandys (1930) The Family of Sandys, Barrow in Furness; privately printed; Patrick Collinson, 'Sandys, Edwin (1519?1588)' , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [accessed 28 Sept 2004: Oxford DNB] |
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Whilst there is a theory that young Edwin received his early education at Furness Abbey, it is believed by Collinson that both Edmund Grindal and Edwin Sandys shared a childhood, quite probably in St Bees, and were educated together. A branch of the Sandys family lived at Rottington Hall near St Bees. The heralds in 1563 knew the family as"...of St Bees in the County of Cumberland", and Sandys himself has recalled that he and Grindal had lived "familiarly" and "as brothers" and were only separated between Sandys's 13th and 18th Years. The St Bees registers are full of Sandys, and it thought likely that Sandys grew up at Rottington. However, his place of education is not recorded, though it is known that the Marian martyr John Bland was the schoolmaster of Sandys. |
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| 1532 or 1533 | entered St John's College, Cambridge | Oxford DNB |
| 1539 | graduated BA | |
| 1541 | proceeded MA | |
| 1542 | proctor | |
| 1547 | BTh | |
| became master of St Catharine's College | ||
| 1548 | vicar of Haversham, Buckinghamshire | |
| 1549 | prebendary of Peterborough | |
| c. 1548 | m. 1. Mary Sandes (15231555/7, b. Wadham, Essex, d. of John and Elizabeth (Cavendish) Sandes), at London | Foster (1873); Sandys (1930) |
| 1549 | proceeded DTh | Oxford DNB |
| Child with first wife: | James (? 1555/7) | Foster (1873); Sandys (1930) |
| 1552 | became vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge | Oxford DNB |
| prebendary of Carlisle | ||
| 1553-07-25 | as a supporter of the deposed Lady Jane Grey, was among alleged traitors escorted to the Tower of London by an army of 4000 men; he was "the first prisoner that entered that day" | Oxford DNB, citing Foxe's Acts and Monuments |
| spent 29 weeks in the Tower, sharing a cell with the future martyr John Bradford; then moved to the Marshalsea in Southwark; after nine weeks there, was freed and went to Antwerp, and from there to Strasbourg | Oxford DNB | |
| 1553/1558 | of Strasbourg; his wife joined him after a year, but she and their son soon died of the plague; was himself gravely ill for nine months | Oxford DNB; Foster (1873) |
| 1588 | after Mary's death, returned to England, reaching London on day of Elizabeth's Coronation, 15 January 1559 | Oxford DNB |
| 1559-02-19 | m.2. Cecily Wilford (15341611, d. of Sir Thomas and Rose (Whetenhall) Wilford, of Cranbrook, Kent) | Foster (1873); Sandys (1930); Oxford DNB; Find a Grave |
| 1559-08/-11 | employed in the royal visitation of the northern province, a circuit which took him from Nottingham through York to Chester, via Durham and Carlisle | Oxford DNB |
| 1559-12-21 | consecrated bishop of Worcester at Lambeth | |
| 1559/1570 | bishop of Worcester, after turning down the see of Carlisle | Foster (1873); Oxford DNB |
| Children with second wife: | Samuel (15601623, bapt. Hartlebury, Worcestershire), Edwin (15611629), Myles (15631644), William (1565 ?), Margaret (15661613), Thomas (1568 after 1634), Anne (15701629/30), Henry (15721626), and George (1577/81643/4, b. episcopal palace, Bishopthorpe) | Foster (1873); Sandys (1930); Oxford DNB; "England Deaths and Burials, 15381991," database, FamilySearch: 11 April 2018, Margret Sandy, burial 31 Dec 1613, citing Northbourne, Kent, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City, FHL microfilm 1,752,058 |
| 1570-07-13 | translated to London, against his will | Oxford DNB |
| 1570/1577 | bishop of London | Foster (1873) |
| acquired a "reputation for precipitate and misguided zeal." "Sandys was the principal prosecutor of a congregation of Dutch Anabaptists, two of whom lit the fires of Smithfield for the first time for seventeen years, a very controversial sentence which Sandys pronounced and which was deplored by Foxe." | Oxford DNB | |
| 1572 | . . . "Sandys seems to have been one of the most active parliamentarians on the episcopal bench. In particular, he was in the van of the campaign to bring Mary, queen of Scots, to book. In a letter to Cecil he called her the root of England's troubles and he was one of the first to demand her head." "Although Sandys is not known to history as a resistance theorist, it is significant that he had called Mary Tudor 'Bloody Mary' , an expression usually said to have been invented in the nineteenth century" . . . | |
| 1577-03-08 | translated to the archdiocese of York | |
| 1577/1586 | archbishop of York | Foster (1873); Oxford DNB |
| 1588-07-10 | d. Southwell, Nottinghamshire | Foster (1873); Sandys (1930); Oxford DNB |
| bur. Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire, where his funeral effigy shows him bare-headed, arrayed in a rochet and chimere, standard academic and episcopal attire | ||
| 1590 | will proved in PCC | Sandys (1930) |
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"That combination of expediency and graft which has come to be called sleaze might appear to sound an appropriate note on which to end the life of an archbishop who has gone down in history as a model of grasping episcopal nepotism." "But it has to be said that by the end of the twentieth century Sandys had never attracted a biographer equipped to find and make a case for his rehabilitation." |
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58 page biography in Sandys (1930); a long entry in the Oxford DNB |
08. Myles Sandys| 1544 Michaelmas | matric. pens. from St John's | Cambridge University Alumni |
| 1551 | barrister-at-law, master of the King's Bench office, and clerk of the Crown, of Middle Temple, London | E.S. Sandys (1930) The Family of Sandys, Barrow in Furness; privately printed; Cambridge University Alumni |
| 1559/1597 | Clerk of the Crown and attorney of Queen's Bench | The History of Parliament |
| by 1564 / c. 1587 | j.p.q. Worcs. | |
| 1566 | eccles. commr | |
| 1566-10-31 | member of the large committee dealing with the Queen's marriage and the succession question | |
| 1567 | purchased Isenhampstead Latimer from Fulke Greville | Sandys (1930); The History of Parliament |
| 1568 | m.1. Hester Clifton (? ?, d. of William Clifton, of Barrington, Somerset) | Sandys (1930) |
| Children with first wife: | Edwin (c. 1564 1607/8), William (cal 1564 1641), George (? 1618), Henry (? after 1615), Elizabeth (? after 1595), Esther (15701656), and Bridget (? after 1590) | Sandys (1930); Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; Ancestry of Senator John Kerry; The History of Parliament |
| 1570/1574 | member, council in the marches of Wales | The History of Parliament |
| 1571 | MP for Lancaster | |
| 1571-04-13 | only recorded speech in the House, on the Vagabonds bill | |
| 1572 | at Bridport; left an annuity of £20 in the will of the 2nd earl of Bedford | |
| by 1573 | j.p.q. Bucks. | |
| 1577 | purchased the manor of Eaton Bray from Sir Walter Sandys | Sandys (1930) |
| 1578 | bencher, M. Temple | Cambridge University Alumni; The History of Parliament |
| by 1580 | j.p.q. Beds. | The History of Parliament |
| 1583 | commr. musters, recusancy, Bucks. | |
| 1584 | knight of the shire | |
| 1584/5 | heavily involved in law reform and privilege cases | |
| 1586 | commr. musters, recusancy, Bucks. | |
| 1586 | elected MP for Abingdon, at a bye-election | |
| one of sixteen commissioners instructed by the Privy Council to try to persuade seminary priests, imprisoned in London, to conform | ||
| 1586 or later | m.2. Bridget Colte (? 1613, widow of Alderman Woodcock, of London, d. of Robert Colte, of Woodwicke or Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire) | The History of Parliament; Sandys (1930) |
| 1588/1595 | treasurer of the Middle Temple | Sandys (1930); The History of Parliament |
| 1589 | MP for Plymouth | The History of Parliament |
| of Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, and Latimer, Buckinghamshire | Sandys (1930) | |
| 1590 | purchased lands in Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire for more than "1000 | The History of Parliament |
| of Latimer, and of Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire | Cambridge University Alumni | |
| 1592 | a commissioner to take the oath of supremacy from the Buckinghamshire justices | The History of Parliament |
| 1600-11 | made his will:
He was confident of his salvation by 'free grace' and the merits of Christ, and trusted that he would be received 'to dwell among the souls of God's elect' . He was to be buried without 'vain pomp, ostentation or chargeable funeral' . He bade his eldest son, Edwin, be kind to the widow and 'travail in her causes' , as he had travailed in Edwin's 'most troublesome and tedious causes' ; the widow was bidden, in her turn, to be kind to the children, and God, 'the father of the fatherless orphans' , would bless her. |
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| by 1601 | j.p.q. other counties | |
| 1601-10-22 | d. Latimer | Joseph Foster (1873) Pedigrees of the County Families of England. Vol. I Lancashire. London; Sandys (1930); Cambridge University Alumni |
| bur. Latimer | Sandys (1930), citing Inq. p.m. Bedford 44 Eliz. | |
| funeral certificate is in the College of Arms; it shows his arms with an annulet for difference (5th son); his arms are also blazoned in the east window of Middle Temple Hall | Sandys (1930) | |
| 1601 | will proved at PCC; left lands in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Northamptonshire, Sussex, Wiltshire and Worcestershire | The History of Parliament; Sandys (1930) |
| much further detail, particular about his parliamentary career, in The History of Parliament |
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