Jacob Astley, 1st Baron Astley of Reading

Jacob Astley (1579 – February 1652) was a Royalist commander in the English Civil War.

Quotes

 * O Lord! thou knowest how busy I must be this day: if I forget thee, do not thou forget me.
 * citing C.V. Wedgwood
 * Prayer before the Battle of Edgehill (1642), quoted by Sir Philip Warwick, Memoires, 1701.


 * You have done your work, boys, and may go play, unless you will fall out among yourselves.
 * Address to his Roundhead captors at the end of the Battle of Stow-on-the-Wold (1646) the last field battle of the First English Civil War. Hastings 1986, p. 135, citing C.V. Wedgwood