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 284 COMPLETE PEERAGE astley 1336/7, when she was living, (°) Elizabeth, da. of Guy (de Beauchamp), 2nd Earl of Warwick., by Alice, da. of Ralph de Toni. He was living 3 May 1366. C) IV. 1370.^ 4. William (of Astley), Lord Astley, s. and h., b. before 1344-5. Q He was never sum. to Pari., though included in several commissions by Henry IV and Henry VI. He m. Joan, da. of John Willoughby, [Lord Willoughby of Eresby]. He d. s.p.m. After his death, the Barony of Astley, if an hereditary Peerage (there being no proof of any sitting) would have devolved on his only da. and h., Joan, and the heirs of her body. She w., istly, Thomas Raleigh, of Farnborough, co. Warwick, by whom she had no surv. male issue. She /«., 2ndly (as his 2nd wife), Reynold (Grey), 3rd Lord Grey of Ruthin, who d. 1440, leaving, by his said wife, Edward Grey (s. and h. to his mother), who was sum. to Pari, in 1446 as Lord Ferrers of Groby. The Barony of Astley (if then existing) would thenceforth have followed the course of that of Ferrers of Groby, and have been forfeited therewith on the attainder of Henry (Grey), Duke of Suffolk, Qc, in 1554. — See " Ferrers of Groby, " Barony of. ASTLEY OF READING BARONY. I. Jacob Astley, 2nd s. of Isaac A., of Hill Morton,, ^ CO. Warwick, and of Melton Constable, co. York, by 44- Mary, da. of Edward Waldegrave, of Borley, Essex, was knighted 17 July 1624 ; Gov. of Plymouth 1638, was Col. of the 3rd Reg. of Foot in the King's campaign against the Scots (1640), Serjeant Major Gen. of the King's army at the outbreak of the Civil War (1642). On 4 Nov. 1644, he was cr. BARON ASTLEY OF READING, (■*) Berks. He was wounded at the battle of Edgehill ; Governor of Reading ; Com- mander of the King's Infantry at Naseby (1645), where he " performed his part with great gallantry. " (") He was taken prisoner at Stow-on- the-Wold, in 1646.0 He was soon afterwards released on being admitted (*) Thomas Astley and Margaret his wife were living 15 July 1334. {Pat. Rolls.) V.G. ('') Ancient Deeds, vol. iv, A. 10248. (°) See note " f " on previous page. (*) The Lords Astley of Reading bore the arms of Astley oi Astley with a golden border engrailed, {ex inform. Oswald Barron.) V.G. C) IVhitelocke. (') Here he is said to have uttered the well-known speech " You have done your work now, and may go to play unless you fall out among yourselves. " Lord Clarendon says of him " Sir Jacob Astley was an honest, brave, plain man and as fit for the office he exercised of Major Gen. of the Foot as Christendom yielded, and was so generally esteemed ; very discerning and prompt in giving orders as the occasions required, and most cheerful and present in any action. In council he used few but pertinent words ; and was not at all pleased with the long speeches usually made there and which rather confounded than informed his understanding ; so that