Jacob Astley, 1st Baron Astley of Reading

thumb|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. Hastings Max 1986 The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes Oxford University Press United States 78-0-19-520528-2 118 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 External links Jacob Astley, 1st Baron Astley of Reading Jacob Astley, 1st Baron Astley of Reading Category:Military leaders from England Category:1579 births Category:1652 deaths