Jacob Astley, 1st Baron Astley of Reading was a Royalist commander in the English Civil War.
“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 (1642), quoted by Sir Philip Warwick, Memoires, 1701.
Source: * Hastings ** Max ** 1986 ** The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes ** Oxford University Press ** United States ** 78-0-19-520528-2 ** 118 https://books.google.com/books?id=1_fwo9-URNEC&pg=PA118 citing C.V. Wedgwood
“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.
Source: Hastings 1986, p. 135, citing C.V. Wedgwood
