sentences:  He was successively member of parliament for Coventry (1541), Lostwithiel (1547), and Saltash (1553).As Recorder of Coventry Saunders instigated the mayor's refusal to obey the orders of the Duke of Northumberland to proclaim Lady Jane Grey as Queen, and advised him to proclaim Mary instead.On her accession Queen Mary granted him an annuity, and appointed him a justice of the common pleas on 4 October 1553.