[1] He left London in 1633 to live at Fladbury with his new wife Cicely, daughter of Sir John Stede, with whom he received a handsome portion.
In 1635, supported by petitions from many towns and from the counties affected, Sandys was authorised by Order in Council and Letters Patent, (in 1636),[4]/ to improve the river Avon.
Sandys also had a patent to farm a new duty imposed by the king (without Parliamentary sanction) on coal exports.
[5] During the English Civil War he acted as a Royalist agent purchasing munitions at Dunkirk.
After the Restoration, Sandys represented Evesham in Cavalier Parliament[5] and was a particularly active member for the rest of his life.
Due to his loss of his estates and his inability to profit from the Avon, Sandys had little property at his death in December 1669, apart from his navigation interests.
[6] After his death Cicely had difficulty in recovering the interest (as jointure in the manor of Fladbury, which she thought she had retained under arrangements made in the 1630s.