ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Edwin Sandys’ early life at the University of Cambridge, his arrest and escape from England and his time in exile. It also considers the nature of the source material for this era, written predominantly in the Elizabethan period, and discusses the impact of hindsight on the construction of narrative and life writing. The account given of Sandys’ life in Foxe’s Acts and Monuments is at the centre of this discussion. The influence of competing philosophies of evangelicalism, the influence of continental ideas and the ways in which networks were built up in the 1540s and 1550s will also be considered.
