The Hampshire Family Historian | Vol.48 No.1 | June 2021

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Ferrers in Essex to collect rents from Edwarde’s Manor, whose young heiress was a Ward of Court. Christopher and his wife Alice, possibly his first cousin, became involved in disputes over the heiress’s rights to the Manor. Christopher’s son, William, married the young heiress Margery GERARD when he came of age in 1499. (William is wrongly shown as a grandson of William Sandes and Margaret Rawson of Esthwaite in the Cumberland Visitation of 1615 and Margery Gerard’s father John is wrongly shown as being of Torney. Her great-great-grandfather was Thomas Kays who was an Attorney in the Court of Common Pleas.) William Sandes and Margery Gerard of Woodham Ferrers had three daughters and a son, John. The oldest daughter, Elizabeth, married Nicholas Forde a member of the Fishmongers Company in London. John married Elizabeth Cavendish of Trimley in Suffolk and they had two daughters and one son. The son, William, married Anne FELTON whose family originated at Shotley, across the River Orwell from Trimley. His sister Anne married Richard CAVENDISH from Trimley and the other daughter Mary married Edwin

(William is wrongly shown as a son of William Sandes and Margaret Rawson of Esthwaite in the Cumberland Visitation of 1615.) Sir William Sandys junior later became Lord Chamberlain in the household of King Henry VIII and was created the first Baron Sandys of The Vyne. After William’s death in 1540, his son, Thomas, succeeded him as the Second Baron Sandys of The Vyne. Meanwhile, the first Sir William Sandys’ younger brother Christopher had joined Sir Reginald Bray in the household of Margaret Beaufort, the mother of King Henry VII. One of Margaret Beaufort’s homes was Woking Manor near Guildford in Surrey and King Henry VII stayed there for a few weeks after gaining the throne at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. At the end of 1485 and early in 1486, the King made grants to Christopher Sandes (sic) in recognition of “good and praiseworthy service” to both the king and his mother. In 1489, Christopher was sent to Woodham Table Three: Barons Sandys of The Vyne

SANDES who was Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, where Richard Cavendish also studied. Edwin Sandes aka Edwyn Sandys was

descended from the Sandes of Esthwaite. He was a Protestant theologian and had to go into exile during the reign of the Catholic Queen Mary. While with him in Germany, both his wife Mary, and young son James died. On his return to England, Edwin married Cicely WILFORD and they had a large family while he was Bishop of Worcester.

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