Nielsen Hayden genealogy
John Astley
- Abt 1595-
Name John Astley Birth of Norfolk, England [1] Gender Male Alternate birth of Melton Constable, Norfolk, England [2] Death Abt Jul 1595 [3, 4] Alternate death 1 Aug 1596 [5] Burial All Saints, Maidstone, Kent, England [1, 5] Person ID I28355 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 24 Apr 2020
Father Thomas Astley, b. of Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England d. Aft 1513 Mother Anne Wood d. Aft 1507 Family ID F16920 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Katherine Carew, b. Abt 1500 d. 18 Jul 1565, London, England (Age ~ 65 years) Marriage Abt 1545 [5, 6] Family ID F16916 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 24 Apr 2020
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Notes - Master of the Jewel House to Elizabeth I. Gentleman of the Privy Chamber.
MP for Chippenham, Cambridgeshire, in 1547, West Looe, Devon, in March 1553, and St Albans, Hertfordshire, in 1555.
He was the author of the earliest English book about horsemanship, which gloried in the jawbreaking title The Art of Riding, set foorth in a breefe treatise, with a due interpretation of certeine places alledged out of Xenophon, and Gryson, verie expert and excellent Horssemen: Wherein also the true use of the hand by the said Grysons rules and precepts is speciallie touched: and how the Author of this present worke hath put the same in practise, also what profit men maie reape thereby: without the knowledge whereof, all the residu of the order of Riding is but vaine. Lastlie is added a short discourse of the Chaine of Cauezzan, the Trench and the Martingale: written by a Gentleman of great skill and long experience in the said Art. London, 1584.
- Master of the Jewel House to Elizabeth I. Gentleman of the Privy Chamber.
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Sources - [S4047] The Marian Exiles: A Study in the Origins of Elizabethan Puritanism by Christina Hallowell Garrett. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- [S476] The Visitations of Essex ed. Walter C. Metcalfe. Harleian Society volume 13. London, 1878.
- [S154] The Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1915.
- [S4047] The Marian Exiles: A Study in the Origins of Elizabethan Puritanism by Christina Hallowell Garrett. Cambridge University Press, 2010., year only.
- [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing.
- [S4046] Brice Clagett, 25 Oct 2000, post to soc.genealogy.medieval.
- [S4047] The Marian Exiles: A Study in the Origins of Elizabethan Puritanism by Christina Hallowell Garrett. Cambridge University Press, 2010.