Jacob Astley, 1st Baron Astley of Reading
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Jacob Astley (1579 – February 1652) was a Royalist commander in the English Civil War.
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- O Lord! thou knowest how busy I must be this day: if I forget thee, do not thou forget me.
- Prayer before the Battle of Edgehill, quoted by Sir Philip Warwick, Memoires, 1701.
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- Well, boys, you have done your work, now you may go and play - if you don't fall out among yourselves.
- After surrendering