John Sandford (poet)

He was also a Neo-Latin poet, and a founder of the tradition of literary nonsense under the pseudonym Glareanus Vadianus, a mocker of Thomas Coryat.

Abbot in 1615 presented him to a prebend in Canterbury Cathedral,[3] and to the rectories of Ivechurch in Romney Marsh, and Blackmanstone, also in Kent.

Sandford's earliest publication, 'Appolinis et Mvsarum Eὐκτικὰ Eἰδύλλια in Serenissimae Reginae Elizabethae ... adventum,' Oxford, 1592, describes in Latin verse the banquet given by the president and fellows of Magdalen to Queen Elizabeth's retinue on the occasion of her visit to Oxford on 22 September 1592.

Reginae, Oxford, 1603; and commendatory poems in Latin before John Davies's Microcosmos, 1603, Thomas Winter's translation of Du Bartas, pts.

Sandford also published on his own account at Oxford God's Arrow of the Pestilence, a sermon never preached (1604), and grammars of French, Latin, and Italian, to which he afterwards added one of Spanish.