SANDYS, Samuel (1615-85), of Ombersley, Worcs.

Family and Education

bap. 2 July 1615, 3rd but 1st surv. s. of Sir Edwin Sandys† of Ombersley and Penelope, da. of Sir Richard Bulkeley† of Beaumaris, Anglesey.Ombersley par. reg.; Nash, Collections ii. 223. m. (1) 12 July 1636, Mary (d. 1651) da. and h. of Hugh Barker DCL of Chichester, Suss., chan. Oxford dioc. 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 1da.; (2) Elizabeth (d. 1698) da. of Sir John Pakington†, 1st bt. of Westwood Park, Dodderhill, Worcs., wid. of Henry Washington of Packington, Leics. s.p. suc. fa. 1623;Mdx. Par. Regs. ix. 33; Nash, Collections ii. 221. d. 5 Apr. 1685.Ombersley par. reg.

Offices Held

Local: j.p. Worcs. 11 Mar. 1641 – ?July 1646, by Oct. 1660–d.C231/5 p. 434; C193/12/3; C220/9/4. Commr. array (roy.), 18 June 1642;Northants RO, FH133, unfol. excise (roy.), Worcs. and Worcester 15 Dec. 1645–?July 1646.Bodl. Dugdale 19, f.114; Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 281. Dep. lt. Worcs. 1660–d.SP29/42. Commr. poll tax, 1660; Worcester 1666.SR. Dep. lt. Worcs. c.Aug. 1660–d.HP Commons 1660–90, ‘Samuel Sandys I’. Commr. assessment, Worcester Dec. 1660; Worcs. 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679; Notts. 1672, 1677, 1679;SR. oyer and terminer, Wales 8 Nov. 1661;C181/7 p. 119. loyal and indigent officers, Oxon., Worcs. 1662; subsidy, Worcs. 1663. Bailiff, Bedford Level 1663 – 65, 1666 – 67; conservator, 1665 – 66, 1668–73.S. Wells, History of the Drainage of the Great Level of the Fens (2 vols, 1830), i, 456, 458, 460. Commr. recusants, Worcs. 1675.SR.

Military: col. of horse (roy.), Worcs. 21 June 1642-aft. June 1645;Diary and Pprs. of Henry Townshend ed. Porter, Roberts, Roy, 87; I. Roy, ‘The Royalist Army in the First Civil War’ (Oxford DPhil thesis, 1963), 123, 156.. col. of ft. 20 Nov. 1642.Worcs. Archives, b970/5/56: BA 11167/iii; Add. 18980, f. 20. Gov. Evesham 20 Jan. 1643, 8 Apr. 1644.Worcs. Archives, b970/5/56: BA 11167/i; Harl. 6802, f. 75. Lt.-gov. Worcester 21 Jan. 1645; gov. 6 Nov. 1645-Feb. 1646.Worcs. Archives, b970/5/56: BA 11167/v, viii, ix, xi.

Civic: freeman, Worcester 27 June 1643–d.;Worcester Chamber Order Bk. 367. Bewdley by 1673.HP Commons, 1660–90, ‘Samuel Sandys I’.

Court: gent. of privy chamber, extraordinary, June 1660; in ordinary, 1668–d.N. Carlisle, An Inquiry into the Place and Quality of the Gentlemen of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Chamber (1829), 182; LC 3/2.

Parlimentarian

SANDYS, Samuel I (1615-85), of Ombersley, Worcs.

: Worcs.

Likenesses

Likenesses: MI, Ombersley church.Nash, Collections ii, 218.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

SANDYS, Samuel (1615-85), of Ombersley, Worcs.

Will

not found.

Estates

Ombersley manor; salt bullaries, Droitwich, Worcs.; Bedford level; lands in Notts.CCC 1296-7.

Oxford 1644

Yes

1640 Volume

oxford

Addresses

Religion

presented Edward Pilkington to Ombersley vicarage, 11 May 1644.Worcs. Archives, RO, 732.4: BA 2337/23.

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