SAN 
SANDY POINT, the south-east extremity of Massachu¬ 
setts, in the United States. Lat. 41.34-N. long. 69. 55. W. 
SANDY POINT, a cape in the straits of Magellan. 
Lat. 53. 10. S. 
SANDY POINT, a town on the south-west coast of the 
island of St. Christopher. It is a port of entry, and is de¬ 
fended by two forts, both near the town. Lat. 17. 27. N. 
long. 62. 45. W. 
SANDY POINT, a cape of the Island of Tobago. Lat. 
11. 6.N. long. 60. 37. W. 
SANDY POINT, the south-east extremity of the Island 
of St. Lucia. 
SANDY POINT, the south-east extremity of Antigua. 
SANDY RIVER, a river of Canada, which runs into 
Lake Superior; 30 miles south of Cape Chaillons. 
SANDY RIVER, a river of the United States, in Maine, 
which runs into the Kennebeck; 6 miles above Norridge- 
S ANDY RIVER, Big, a river of the United States, which 
rises in the Laurel mountains. Its sources interlock with 
those of Cumberland, Clinch, Kenhaway, Kentucky, and 
Licking rivers. It forms part of the boundary between Vir¬ 
ginia and Kentucky, and runs north-north-west into the 
Ohio; 40 miles above the Scioto. It has a course of about 
130 miles, and is 200 yards wide at its mouth. 
SANDY RIVER, Little, a river of the United States, 
in Kentucky, which runs into the Ohio; 20 miles below Big 
Sandy. 
SANDY SPRING, a post village of the United States, in 
Montgomery county, Maryland. 
SANDYNESS, the northern extremity of the Island of 
Rum. Lat. 57. 3. N. long. 6. 18. W. 
' SANDYS (or, as it is sometimes spelt, Sandes, Edwin), 
a learned prelate of the church of England, son of William 
Sandys, Esq., a magistrate in the county of Lancaster, 
was born in the year 1519. He received his academical 
education at St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he 
was admitted to the degree of B. A. in 1539, and to that 
of M. A. in 1541. In the following year he filled the 
office of junior proctor of the university. In 1547 he 
proceeded to the degree of B. D., and was soon after elected 
master of Catharine-Hall. In 1548 he was vicar of Ha- 
versham; and in 1549 he was presented with a prebend in 
the church of Peterborough, and took his degree of D. D. 
In 1552 he was nominated by king Edward to a prebend in 
the cathedral church of Carlisle; and at the death of that 
monarch in the following year, he was vice-chancellor of 
the university of Cambridge. On this event Dr. sandys, 
who had been zealously affected towards the Protestant re¬ 
ligion, took a zealous part in raising lady Jane Grey to the 
throne. He preached a sermon before the university, main¬ 
taining her right and title to the crown. He was desired 
by the duke of Northumberland and others, who heard it, 
' and at whose desire it was preached, to print it, with which 
he readily complied; before, however, it could be written 
out, a change took place, which his friends thought re¬ 
quired him to seek his safety by flight. But while others 
either fled, or readily abandoned their principles, he refused 
either alternative; and when he was desired to proclaim 
queen Mary in the market-place at Cambridge, he said it 
was so contrary to the opinions lately maintained by him in 
the pulpit, that he would not consent to act so incon¬ 
sistently : the consequence of which was, that he was im¬ 
mediately stripped of his preferments, and it was resolved 
that he should be committed to the Tower. Of this resolu¬ 
tion he was informed by Mr. Thomas Mildmay, one of the 
duke of Northumberland’s party, who said, he was sur¬ 
prised that a learned man like Dr. Sandys could have spoken 
so unadvisedly, and still more, that he would not turn with 
the stream: to which the worthy doctor replied; “I have 
not yet learned to change without conviction, and shall not 
be ashamed of bonds. But if I could act as Mr. Mildmay 
’ acts, I need fear no bonds; for you came down against 
queen Mary, and armed in the field, and now return for 
queen Mary;—before a traitor, and now a zealous friend. 
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I cannot with one mouth blow hot and cold after this sort.” 
He was accordingly immured within the walls of the Tower 
seven months, and was then released from that prison, and 
sent to the Marshalsea. It was while he was in this situa¬ 
tion that Wyatt came'at the head of his insurgents to South¬ 
wark, and invited Dr. Sandys to join him with his com¬ 
pany and counsel; but this he declined. Having been 
about two months in the Marshalsea, he obtained his liberty; 
but was nearly committed a second time, through the zeal 
of Gardiner, who was informed that Dr. Sandys was one of 
the greatest heretics in England, and one of the principal 
corrupters of the university. The doctor was apprised of 
the intentions of his enemies, and went to Antwerp, where 
he arrived in the month of May, 1554: from thence he was 
obliged to set off to Augsburg, to avoid the persecution of 
king Philip, who had given orders to apprehend him where- 
ever he might be found in the territories over which he had 
any influence. At Strasburgh he was joined by his wife, 
whom he shortly after lost by a decline, as he did a child by 
the plague. Towards the end of 1558 he went to Zurich, 
where he resided several weeks in the house of Peter Martyr, 
with whom he ever afterwards maintained a friendly corre¬ 
spondence. Upon the death of the queen he returned to 
Strasburg, and from thence he came to England, where he 
arrived in January, 1558-9. In the following March queen 
Elizabeth appointed him one of the nine Protestant divines 
who were to hold a disputation with an equal number of 
the Popish clergy, before both houses of parliament, at 
Winchester. He was also chosen one of the commissioners 
who were selected to prepare a new liturgy, and to de¬ 
liberate on other matters for the reformation of the church. 
In 1559 he was nominated to the bishopric of Carlisle, which 
he thought proper to decline; but accepted of that of 
Worcester, and was consecrated on the 21st of December. 
At this period Dr. Sandys was decidedly averse from the 
use of Popish habits; but finding the queen a great stickler 
for these, and for certain images, he submitted rather than 
lose her majesty’s favour, and his own high preferment. 
On the bishop’s first visitation in 1560, he was informed that 
several of the priests indulged themselves in licentious prac¬ 
tices, which were generally scandalous to good morals. He 
therefore took occasion, in a sermon which he preached at the 
cathedral, to shew how necessary it was that priests should 
be allowed to marry. When, about the year 1565, it was 
determined that a new translation of the bible should be 
made. Dr. Sandys, on account of his great skill in the 
original languages, was one of the bishops who were ap¬ 
pointed to undertake that work; and he had allotted to 
him the first and second books of Kings, and the first and 
second books of Chronicles. In the year 1570, upon the 
translation of Grindal from the bishopric of London to the 
archbishopric of York, Dr. Sandys was appointed by the 
queen to the vacant see, which he seemed at first desirous 
of declining, but which at length he accepted. In 1571 
he was, ordered by the queen to assist the archbishop of 
Canterbury in the ecclesiastical commission against the Papists 
and Puritans, the duties of which office he performed with 
great severity. He charged the Puritans particularly with 
sedition; and because they steadily justified themselves, he 
called upon his coadjutors to agree to their banishment from 
the city of London. He also laid claim to the superin¬ 
tendance of the Dutch church in London, which occasioned 
some uneasiness between him and the congregation. In 
1576 he was translated to the archbishopric of York, which 
involved him in some serious disputes respecting the tem¬ 
poralities of the see, and in others with his successor, the 
new bishop of London, concerning the rents and dilapida¬ 
tions. In 1577 archbishop Sandys resolved to visit his 
whole province, in order, if possible, to put an end to all 
non-conformity. In pursuance of this resolution, he pro¬ 
ceeded in the first instance to Durham, where the dean. Dr. 
Whittingham, was the principal person under the bishop, 
who had a secret and strong inclination to Puritan principles, 
and who had not been ordained according to the form of the 
English service book. Accusations were preferred against 
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