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SANDYS. 57 da. of Edmund (Braye), 1st Lord Braye. He also m. Ursula. He also m before 1 April 1000 (when she was still living) Christian, (') da. of Bryan Annesley of Lewishaui, co. Kent, Gent. Pensioner, by Audrey, da. of ( — ) Tirhell, of co. Essex, Warden of the Fleet. She is said to have d. 1005. He also m. Anne, who survived him. He <l. 29 Sep. 1623, and was bur. as afsd. Will dat. 15 Oct. 1021, nr. 20 Uct. 1023, by his widow ; again 22 March 1028/9, by William, Lord Sandys, his son, and dually, 3 Dec. 1032, by Alathea, relict of the last named William. IV. 1 G23. J t . William (Sandys), Lord Sandys de Vyne, only s. and h., by Ursula abovenamed ; was never sum. to Pari. He m. Alathea, 1st da. and coheir of John PaNTon, of Brynnelkib in Henthlan, co. Denbigh, by Helenor, da. of Sir William Booth, of Dunham Massey, co. Chester. He d. s.p. 12 Nov. 1029, and was bur. with his father. Funeral certif. at Coll. of Arms. Admon. 21 Nov. 1629 to his widow. She m. before Dec. 1032 Sir John Holland, 1st Bart., of (Juiddeuham, co. Norfolk, who d. 19 Jan. 1701, at (it is said) the age of 93. V. 1629. 5. Elizabeth, sua jure, Baroness Sandys de Vyne, sister (of the half blood) to the late Lord, being only da. of William the 3d Lord, but by another wife than Ursula. She m. 2 (settl. 1st) June 15S0, at Eaton Bray, Beds., Sir Edwin Sandts,() of Latimers, Bucks {Knighted, in Ireland, after that d»te), who was bur. 10 March 1007/8, at Eaton afsd. Will pr. 1012. She was living April 1644, but the date of her death is uncertain. Her grandchildren were, on 10 July 1073, granted the precedence of children of a Baron, as if their father, Henry " had survived the Lady Sandys their grandmother.^) VI. 1G50? G. William (Sandys), Lord Sandys de Vyne, s. and h. of Col. Henry Sandys, by Margaret, da. of (his paternal uncle) Sir William Sandys, of Eladbury, co. Worcester, which Henry (who was mortally wounded at the battle at Cheriton, co. Hants, 29 March and d. 0 April 1044, was 3d. and yst, but the only s. that left issue, of Elizabeth, the auo jure Baroness abovenamed. He, having claimed this peerage, was sum. by writ, 8 May (1001), 13 Car. II., and took his seat accordingly. He had previously, in 1053, alienated the estate of the Vyne( d ) and resided at Mottisfont. He TO. Mary (6. about 1020), yst. da. of William (Cecil), 2d Earl of Salisbury, by Catharine, da. of Thomas (Howard), Earl of Suffolk. He d. s.p. 1008. VIT. 1GG8. 7. Henry (Sandys), Lord Sandys de Vyne, next br. and h. ; sum. to Pari, by writ, 11 Oct. (1609), 21 Car. II., and took his seat on the 19th, his last appearance in the House being 26 March 1679, he being reported sick and excused on 30 Oct. 1680. He d. s.p. probably in 16S0,( C ) certainly before 17 March 1684.(0 (") Will of her father— of which an abstract is given, together with his pedigree, in Drake's (most valuable) " Hartal's Kent," vol. i, p. 247. ( b ) He was oddly enough of a totally different family from that of his wife, being s. and h. of Miles Sandys, of Latimers afsd., Clerk of the Crown (d. 22 Oct. 1601), a younger br. of Edwin, Archbishop of York, (1577-SS), ancestor of the Barons Sandys of Ombersley. This family whose origin was from the north, bore for their arms Or, a fesB daucettc, between 3 cross crosslets fitchc, r/ules ; while those of the Sandys family of Hampshire were Arg., a cross raguly, sable. ( c ) She is also recognised as a Peeress in the M.I. at Cheltenham erected by John English, D.D., to Jane " his most dear wife," who d. 8 Aug. 1643, who was "da. to the Hon. Elizabeth, Lady Sandys, Baronesse de la Vine." [Mis. Gen. et Her., N.S., vol. ii, p. 412 ] ( d ) The purchaser was Challenor Chute, sometime Speaker of the House of Commons, in whose posterity it still continues. An account of the Sandys estate at the Vyne and Mottisfont is in " The Topographer" (1789), vol. i, pp. 51-63. (°) Lord Leicester in his MS. notes in Bolton's extiuct peerage says he died in 1080. (') Iu the list of Peers prepared 17 March 1084, for the coronation of James II the name of Lord Sandys hi omitted.