"You have done your work, boys, and may go play, unless you will fall out among yourselves."
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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
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Jacob Astley, 1st Baron Astley of Reading
Jacob Astley (1579 – February 1652) was a Royalist commander in the English Civil War.
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