. Elizabeth was born. c. 1578 (she was four or five at the time of her father's death).
Elizabeth inherited some property from her father when she reached the age of majority (he died when she was only five), but the inheritance was disputed by her sister Mary. From
Hercy Sandford, probably, did not contemplate the early extinction of his family when he constructed this mansion [at Thorpe Salvin] for their residence. He died early in life. His only son died before him. His three daughters were left under the guardianship of his brother-in-law, Francis Rodes, a man eminent in the law, and a judge...
His last will was made not long before his death, and probably with the advice of this eminent lawyer; but the construction of it came afterwards to minister occasion to great discussion in the courts, where the cause arising out if it depended, as Sir Edward Coke says, fourteen terms, and was argued more than half fourteen times. The account of the case is as follows:
In Trinity term, 11 James I [~1614]. dame Mary Portington brought her action of trespass against Robert Rogers and Thomas Barley, for breaking of her house and close at Thorpe-Salvin, 20 June, 7 James [~1610]. The defendant pleaded that Hercy Sandford, esq. was seised of the tenements, &c. in fee, and held them of the king, as of his honour of Tickhill, in socage; and on the 8th May, 24 Elizabeth [1582], made his will, wherein he devised them to Elizabeth Sandford, his younger daughter, when she should accomplish her age of eighteen, and to the heirs of her body. Said Hercy Sandford died on the 20th July following [1582], his daughter Elizabeth being then five years of age; and on the 20th June, 37 Elizabeth [1595], she accomplished the age of eighteen years, and on the 25th March following entered on the tenements, and was thereof seised in tail, &c.; and, being so seised, took to her husband the said Robert Rogers, 1 Nov. 39 Eliz. [1597] and justified, &e. The plaintiff replied, that the said Hercy Sandford had issue, Mary, his eldest daughter, Helen, his second daughter, and the said Elizabeth, his youngest daughter, and confessed the devise of the tenements to Elizabeth; but further said, that by the same will, for want of issue of Elizabeth, the said tenements were limited to Mary, the now plaintiff, in tail, remainder to Helen in tail, remainder to the fourth, fifth, and sixth daughters in tail, the remainder to testator’s nephew, John Roads, and his heirs male, with divers remainders over in tail. And further, that the testator earnestly declared his will to be, that no party in possession should alien the property so devised; and if any party in possession entered into covenant to alien, the right should be forfeited to the next in the entail. It was further replied, that the said Elizabeth, wife of Robert Rogers, by deed, dated 13 April, 7 James [1610], willingly, apparently, and advisedly, concluded and agreed with Christopher Beadshaw and Gervase Rogers [Elizabeth's brother-in-law] to suffer a common recovery of the said tenements, to the intent to make void and put away from the said Mary the remainder of the said tenements: whereupon a writ of entry was brought against the said Robert and Elizabeth of the said tenements, and a common recovery had against them, with vouchers over, and judgment given, and execution had, against the said Robert and Elizabeth, and their heirs.
I have not had an opportunity of seeing the will of Hercy Sandford; but it is probable that the lands in question were not the manor of Thorpe-Salvin, with the capital mansion above described, but some portion of the Sandford estates within the manor, on which the descendants of Robert Rogers and Elizabeth Sandford remained for some generations. With respect to the capital mansion and the manor, they came to Francis Nevile, of Chevet, son of Henry Nevile by Ellen Sandford, the second daughter. He sold them to sir Edward Osborne in 1636.
in Nottinghamshire. Their descendent pedigree is available in
The descendants of the youngest of the three coheirs [i.e the descendants of Elizabeth Sandford] continued till about the year 1737 at the hamlet of Netherthorpe in the rank of gentry. It is remarkable that they are not found in St. George’s or Dugdale’s visitation. The following pedigree is compiled from the monuments and parish register at Thorpe, and other authorities. The family, it may be added, is absent also from Hopkinson’s and other collections of Yorkshire genealogies.
Whether this is simply an observation that a semi-important gentry family seemed not to be covered by any of the extant pedigree works, or instead a veiled suggestion that their origins were not as austere as might be imagined, we shall never know.
Elizabeth probably died some time in 1653, as her will (dated 21st August 1650 and available at the
on the 14th of September 1653. The will mentions:
, rev. Joseph Hunter, London, 1828; Vol. 1, p310
Abt 1577 - Abt 1653 (~ 76 years)
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