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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia · 1897 · p. 144
He refused to proclaim Queen Mary, and was imprisoned in the Tower. After the acce ion of Elizabeth he was made bishop of Worcester (Dec. 21, 1559), of London (1570), and archbishop of York (1576). He was one of the translators of the "Bishops' Bible" (1565). Sandys, Sir Edwin. Born at Worcester about 1561: died at North borne, Kent, Oct., 1629. An English politician and author, son of Archbishop Sandys. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford; was a ociated with Bacon in drawing up the "Remonstrance" of 1604; became treasurer of the Second Virginia Company in 1619; and a isted the Pilgrims in chartering the Mayflower. He was knighted in 1603. He wrote "Europæ Speculum" (1605). Sandys, George. Born at York, 1577: died at Bexley Abbey, Kent, March, 1644. An English traveler and translator, brother of Sir Edwin Sandys. He was educated at Oxford, and began to travel in 1610. His records were a valuable contribution to early geography and ethnology. In 1615 he published a valuable account of a journey to Greece, Asia Minor, Palestine, and Egypt. He came out to Virginia as colonial treasurer in 1621. He built the first water-mill, the first iron-works, and the first ship in Virginia. He returned to England in 1624. He subsequently printed various religious works and a translation of Ovid's "Metamorphoses," and paraphrased the IP's alms, the Book of Job, Ecclesiastes, and the Lamentations of Jeremiah. Sanetsch (sä'nech). An Alpine pa on the border of the cantons of Valais and Bern, Switzerland, north of Sion. It connects the valleys of the Morge (tributary of the Rhone) and the Saane. San Fele (sän fa'le). A town in the province of Potenza, southern Italy, 17 miles northwest of Potenza. Population (1881), 9,704. Sanfelice, Giovanni Vicenzo. See Bagnuolo , Count. San Felipe (sän fā-lēpā). [Sp., 'Saint Philip.] The capital of the province of Aconcagua, Chile, 55 miles east-northeast of Val para i so. Population (1885), 11,768. San Felipe. A tribe of North American Indians, inhabiting a pueblo of the same name on the west bank of the Rio Grande, above Bernalillo, north central New Mexico. The name originally was applied by the Spanish to the mi ion. They number 554. See Keresan . San Felipe de Játiva. See Játiva . in San Fernando (sän fer-nän'do). A seaport the province of Cadiz, Spain, on the Isla Leon, in the Bay of Cadiz, 8 miles southeast of Cadiz. It exports salt. Population (1887), 29,287. San Fernando de Apuré (da ä-pö-rā'). А town in Venezuela, situated on the Apuré, at the mouth of the Portuguesa, about 187 miles southwest of Caracas. Population, about 3,000. San Filippo d'Argiro. See Agira . San Francisco (san fran-sis'kō). [Sp., 'Saint Francis.'] A city and seaport of California, situated on San Francisco Bay, in lat. 37°47′55′′ N., long. 122° 24′ 32′′ W. (Washington Square). occupies the northern part a peninsula between the bay and the Pacific and forms a county. It po e es one of the finest harbors in the world; is the largest city on the Pacific coast, and one of the chief seaports in the country; and has regular steam communication with China,
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