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

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• 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.