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What position did Edwin Sandys (bishop) take in May 1572?
Edwin Sandys ( bishop ) Edwin Sandys ( ; 1519 – 10 July 1588 ) was an English prelate . He was Anglican Bishop of Worcester ( 1559–1570 ) , London ( 1570–1576 ) and Archbishop of York ( 1576–1588 ) during the reign of Elizabeth I of England . He was one of the translators of the Bishops Bible . Early years and education . Edwin was born in 1519 at Esthwaite Hall , which is 1 mile south of Hawkshead , Cumbria , on the road to Newby Bridge . The Hall nestles in the valley and overlooks Esthwaite Water . Today it is still a family home , although the Sandys family now reside in the grander Graythwaite Hall , a few miles further south . He was the son of William Sandys and Margaret Dixon . Whilst there is a theory that young Edwin received his early education at Furness Abbey , it is believed by Collinson that both Edmund Grindal and Edwin Sandys shared a childhood , quite probably in St Bees , and were educated together . A branch of the Sandys family lived at Rottington Hall near St Bees . The heralds in 1563 knew the family as...of St Bees in the County of Cumberland , and Sandys himself recalled that he and Grindal had lived familiarly and as brothers and were only separated between Sandyss 13th and 18th Years . The St Bees registers are full of Sandys , and it thought likely that Sandys grew up at Rottington . However , his place of education is not recorded , though it is known that the Marian martyr John Bland was the schoolmaster of Sandys . Edwin Sandys kept one step behind Edmund Grindal in his subsequent career , succeeding him as bishop of London , and then archbishop of York . He went up to St Johns College , Cambridge , graduating BA in 1539 and then a Doctor of Divinity ten years later . In 1547 he was elected master of Catharine Hall and by the death of Edward VI in 1553 he was Vice Chancellor of the University . Exile . On the death of King Edward , the Duke of Northumberland sought to avoid a Roman Catholic monarchy by placing Lady Jane Grey on the throne . He and his followers arrived in Cambridge to raise an army in East Anglia and demanded that Edwin Sandys preach a sermon . When the rebellion failed and Mary Tudor took the throne , Edwin was arrested and taken to the Tower of London . For this he is mentioned in Foxes Book of Martyrs . Later he was moved to more comfortable conditions in Marshalsea prison where he made friends with the prison keeper who connived at his escape . He went first to Antwerp and then Augsburg and Strasbourg where his wife joined him . His wife and infant son died there of a plague . He then lived in Zurich until the accession of Elizabeth I made it safe for him to return to England ; on the day of Elizabeths coronation . On 19 February 1559 he married Cicely Wilford , sister of James Wilford . Archbishop of York . On his return he became successively Bishop of Worcester , Bishop of London and Archbishop of York . He helped in the translation of a new version of the Bishops Bible . Sandyss own personal copy may be seen in the Hawkshead Grammar School Museum . Along with other Marian exiles , who returned to positions of wealth and importance , Archbishop Sandys was concerned that true religion and sound learning would forever flourish in the land . They saw the necessity of education for religions sake and the need for the Church of England to hold their own in discussion with Roman Catholics . To these ends Edwin Sandys founded Hawkshead Grammar School in 1585 and endowed it with sufficient land and property for it to offer a free education . Sandys died on 10 July 1588 , and was buried in Southwell Minster . Family . Sandys was twice married . His first wife , Mary Sandys , died in 1558 at Strasbourg . They had one son : - James Sandys ( died 1557 , Strasbourg ) On 19 February 1559 , Sandys married Cicely Wilford , daughter of Thomas Wilford and sister of James Wilford . They had the following children : - Sir Samuel Sandys ( 1560–1623 ) - Sir Edwin Sandys ( 1561–1629 ) , Treasurer of the Virginia Company of London - Sir Miles Sandys ( 1563–1645 ) - William Sandys ( born 1565 ) , died young - Margaret Sandys ( 1566–1611 ) , married Anthony Aucher - Thomas Sandys ( 1568– ) , colonist , a first settler of Jamestown , Virginia - Anne Sandys ( 1570– ) , married Sir William Barne - Henry Sandys ( 1572–1626 ) - George Sandys ( 1578–1644 ) , traveller and poet , colonist in Virginia In 1604 Cicely Sandys enlisted the support of Anne of Denmark in an unsuccessful attempt to found a university at Ripon in Yorkshire .