See also:SIR See also:EDWIN See also:SANDYS (1561-1629)
, See also:British statesman and one of the founders tof the See also:colony of See also:Virginia, was the second son of See also:Edwin See also:Sandys, See also:archbishop of See also:York, and his wife Cecily Wilford
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He was See also:born in See also:Worcestershire on the 9th of See also:December 1561
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He was educated at See also:Merchant Taylors' school, which he entered in 1571, and at Corpus Christi See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, where he was sent in 1577
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He became B.A. in 1579 and B.C.L. in 1588
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In 1582 his See also:father gave him the prebend of Witwang in York See also:Minster, but he never took orders
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He was entered in the See also:Middle See also:Temple in 1589
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At Oxford his See also:tutor had been See also:- HOOKER, JOSEPH (1814–1879)
- HOOKER, RICHARD (1553-1600)
- HOOKER, SIR JOSEPH DALTON (1817— English botanist and traveller, second son of the famous botanist Sir W.J.Hooker, was born on the 3oth of June 1817, at Halesworth, Suffolk. He was educated at Glasgow University, and almost immediately after taking his M.
- HOOKER, SIR WILLIAM JACKSON (1785–1865)
- HOOKER, THOMAS (1586–1647)
Hooker, author of the Ecclesiastical Polity, whose See also:life-See also:long friend and executor he was
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Sandys is said to have had a large See also:share in securing the Mastership of the Temple for Hooker
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From 1593 till 1599 he travelled abroad
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When in See also:Venice he became closely connected with Fra See also:Paolo See also:Sarpi, who helped him in the See also:composition of the See also:treatise on the religious See also:state of See also:Europe, known as the Europae See also:speculum
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In 16o5 this treatise was printed from a stolen copy under the See also:title; A Relation of the State of See also:Religion in Europe
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Sandys procured the suppression of this edition, but the See also:book was reprinted at the See also:Hague in 1629
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In 1599 he resigned his prebend, and entered active See also:political life
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He had already been member for See also:Andover in 1586 and for Plympton in 1589
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After 1599, in view of the approaching See also:death of See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth, he paid his See also:court to See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James VI., and on James's See also:accession to the See also:throne of See also:England in 1603 Sandys was knighted
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He sat in the king's first See also:parliament as member for See also:Stockbridge, and distinguished himself as one of the assailants of the See also:great monopolies
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He endeavoured to secure to all prisoners the right of employing counsel, a proposal which was resisted by some lawyers as subversive of the See also:administration of the See also:law
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He had been connected with the See also:East See also:India See also:Company before 1614, and took an active See also:part in its affairs till 1629
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His most memorable services were, however, rendered to the (See also:London) Virginia Company, to which he became treasurer in 1619
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He promoted and supported the policy which enabled the colony to survive the disasters of its See also:early days, and, he continued to be a leading See also:influence in the Company till his death
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See also:Sir Edwin Sandys sat in the later parliaments of James I. as member for See also:Sandwich in 1621, and for See also:Kent in 1624
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tendencies were towards opposition, and he was suspected of hostility to the court; but he disarmed the anger of the king by professions of obedience
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He was member for See also:Penrhyn in the first parliament of See also:Charles I. in 1625
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He died in See also:October 1629
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See Alex
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See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown's See also:Genesis of the See also:United States (London; 1890)
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