Introduction

Biography

George was the son of Ed­win San­dys, Arch­bi­shop of York.

He was edu­cat­ed at St. Ma­ry Hall and Cor­pus Chris­ti Col­lege, Ox­ford.

He tra­veled in Eur­ope and Asia for some years, and in 1615 pub­lished a cur­i­ous ac­count of his ex­per­i­enc­es. After vi­sit­ing Am­er­ica, where he was for a time the Trea­sur­er of the Brit­ish co­lo­ny of Vir­gin­ia, he be­came, on his re­turn, a Gen­tle­man of the Pri­vy Cham­ber of Charles I.

His works in­clude:

• Traveller’s Thanks­giv­ing, a prose work on his tra­vels
• A Re­la­tion of a Jour­ney Be­gun in 1610, &c, 1615
• A trans­la­tion of the Me­ta­mor­phos­es of Ov­id
• A trans­la­tion of Gro­tius’ tra­ge­dy of Christ’s Pas­sion
• A Pa­ra­phrase up­on the Psalmes of David, and up­on the Hymns Dis­persed Through­out the Old and New Tes­ta­ments (Lon­don: At the Bell in St. Paul’s Church­yard, 1636)
• A Pa­ra­phrase up­on the Di­vine Po­ems (Lon­don: At the Bell in St. Paul’s Church­yard, 1638)
• A pa­ra­phrase of The Song of So­lo­mon, 1642