5G SANDYS. Pari, as a Baron [LORD SANDYS DE VTNB] by writs(») dat 9 Aug. (1529) 21 Hen. VIII. to 10 Jan. (1641/2), 33 Hen. VIII. directed " il'illo Sandyt de Vytu, CA'r.'V; He was Chamberlain of the Household, 1630-33. He attended Cardinal Wulsey to Paris, to complain of the sacking of Rome by the Duke of Bourbon ; ami whs one of those who signed the letter to the Pope urging him to comply with Henry VIII. 's wish for a divorce. He m. Margery, only da. and h. of John Bait (Senior), niece and heir of Sir Reginald Bray, K.G.( C ) He d. 1542. Will, directing his burial to be at the chapel of the Holy Ghost, in Basingstoke, dat. 8 Dec. 1540, pr. 1542.( d ) He possessed lands in Hants, Wilts, Northamptonshire and Sussex, having received many grants from the Crown. II. 1542. 2. Thomas (Sandys), Loud Sandys de Vyne, s. and b. He was sum. to Pari, from 14 June (1543), 35 Hen. VIII., to 5 Nov. (155S), 5 and 0 Ph. and Mary. He m. Elizabeth, da. of George (MANNERS), Loud Kos, by Anne, da. and h. of Sir Thomas St. Lkueii, and Anne, his wife, sister of Edward IV. He d. about 1500( o ) and was bur. as afsd. Admou. 21 Jan. 1500/1, as " of Mottisfont, Hants," to Elizabeth, his widow. III. 1560? 3. William (Sandys), Lord Sandys de Vyne, grand- sou and h. ; sum. to Pari, from 8 May (1502), 14 Eliz., to 14 Nov. (1021), 19 Jac. I, being s. and h. of Henry Sandys, by Elizabeth, da. of William (Windsor), 2d Lord Windsor, which Henry was 1st ». and h. ap. of the late Lord, but d. v. p. He was on the trial of the Duke of Norfolk in 1503 and on that of the Queen of Scots, 1586, at Fotheringhay.; r ) He was involved in the insurrection of the Earl of Essex in 1001 and suli'ered imprisonment for it. He m. Katharine, or Eliza- beth^), da. of William (Brvdges), 2d Baron Chandos of SCDKLBT, by Dorothy, one) was dated two days previous." It is to be observed that the same date, 27 April 1523, is assigned to the Barony of Vaux, and tho' the grantee, who died within 3 months, was neither summoned to nor sat in pari., his 6. and h. Thomas Vaux sat therein 1529, tho' no writ to him is to be found earlier than 1531. ( a ) Dugdale, In his preface to his " Summon* of the Nobility " (1085) remarks that " it may be observed that from the reign of Henry VIII, but most of later time*, sundry errors have been committed, by the Clerks, who have issued out those writs, in the titles of the temporal Barons, for instead of giving those, whose surnames are their only title of dignity, their right appellations, they have added the place whereby they are only distinguished from others of the same name ; as Thomw Cromwell ile Okeham, Chivalier, Henrico Sandys de la l r yne t CJtivalier, and the like, whereas de Okeham and de la Vyne ought to have been omitted, there being no reason for inserting the place, whereof they are distinguished, unless there Were more of the Peers than one, of the same surname, as Haiti r of Moore Park and Butler oj Weston." There id, doubtless, very little " reason " in many of the peerage titles, more especially in those since Dugdale's date, but the want of reason in the origin does nut alter the fact of the title being such as it was created. ( u ) Close Roll, as quoted in "Creations 14S3-1040, in tip. 47th Rep. D. K. Tub. Records." There is no patent on record for Sandys. ( c ) See Bray pedigree in " Mis. Gen. ft Iler." N.S. vol. i, p. 01. The property she inherited from her uncle was claimed by her cousin, Lord Braye, the heir male, sou of a junior brother and was eventually divided between them. ( d ) The names of his 4 daughters and their marriages and his 2 younger sous (omitted by Dugdale) are given in Banks's " liar. A'igl. Cone." (°) "Leland (vol. iv, p. 10), says that this Lord Sandys had four sous and six daughters yet living, but Dugdale does not notice the same. In Thyune's chronicle it is mentioned that a yr. s. of the Lord Sandys was executed at St. Thomas Waterings for a robbery committed by him and others to the value of £3,000, June 18, 1550." [Banks's " Bar. Anyl. Cone."] ( f ) See vol. iii, p. 72, note " a," for the names of the 24 nobles who were on that Commission. If) She was a great beauty and is thus commemorated by Gascoigue. " In court whoso demands What dame doth most excel, For my conceit I needs must say Fair Bridy.s bears the bell." See Percy's " Ballads " and Brydges's " Peers temp. Jac. I." pp 281-285.
