View source for Sir Samuel Astry ca.1631-1704

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===[[personal title::Sir]] [[name::Samuel]] [[name::ASTRY]]  ca.[[date of birth::1631]]-[[date of death::1704]]===

====Biographical Note====
Astry's ancestry and education are untraced – he is not in the University lists – but he became [[occupation::clerk to the Crown]] in the [[organisations::Court of King's Bench]] in 1677 and was knighted in 1683.  His marriage to [[family::Elizabeth Morse]] in 1667 brought him an extensive estate at [[location::Henbury, Gloucestershire]], where he built a fine house.

====Books==== 
There is no mention of books in Astry's will, which is primarily concerned with dividing his wealth among his children, with limited provision for his two sons, who appear to have had a reputation of being dissolute.  His association with books is primarily around the attribution to him of an early armorial bookplate, possibly engraved by [[associates::David Loggan]], but the extent of Astry's library is unknown.

====Characteristic Markings==== 
The bookplate is reproduced in Lee.

====Sources====
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*[https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D642380 Will of Sir Samuel Astry, The National Archives PROB 11/477/467].
*[http://www.bafhs.org.uk/our-parishes/other-parishes/161-aust Bristol & Avon Family History Society - Aust]. 
*Lee, B. N. ''British bookplates'', 1979, no.8.
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