CAVE, Sir Richard (1596-1645), of ?Westminster.

Family and Education

bap. 18 Aug. 1596, 1st s. of Thomas Cave of St Helen, Worcester, and Katherine, da. of Walter Jones of Witney, Oxon.St Mary, Witney par. reg.; Vis. Worcs. ed. W. C. Metcalfe, 29. educ. MA, Camb. 1636.Al. Cant. m. 30 Sept. 1641, Elizabeth (d. 11 Jan. 1689), da. of Thomas Bartlett of Saintbury, Glos. 1s.CSP Dom. 1641-3, p. 134; Vis. Glos. (Harl. Soc. xxi), 204; Toynbee, Young, Strangers in Oxford, 153. suc. fa. Mar. 1613;St Mary, Witney par. reg. Kntd. c. July 1637.CSP Dom. 1637, pp. 336, 361, 473. d. 14 June 1645.Vis. Worcs. ed. Metcalfe, 29.

Offices Held

Military: lt. of ft. regt. of 3rd earl of Essex, Holland by Nov. 1624–?.SP84/121, ff. 255, 277. Vol. ft. regt. of Ld. Vere, Holland by 1630–?H. Hexam, A Historicall Relation of the Famous Siege of the Busse (1630), unpag. Capt. ?Dutch army by May 1636–?Corresp. of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia ed. N. Akkerman, ii. 422.

Central: member, recess cttee. 9 Sept. 1641.CJ ii. 288b. Commr. for Irish affairs, 4 Apr. 1642.CJ ii. 536b; LJ v. 15b. Member, cttee. of navy and customs by 5 Aug. 1642.Supra, ‘Committee of Navy and Customs’; CJ ii. 381b.

: of ?Westminster.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

CAVE, Sir Richard (1596-1645), of ?Westminster.

Will

not found.

Estates

Cave inherited a messuage and adjoining property in Witney, Oxon.C2/JASI/C26/5; C2/JASI/H18/58.

Oxford 1644

Yes

1640 Volume

oxford

Addresses

the Seven Stars, The Strand, Westminster (1638);HMC Cowper, ii. 179. Covent Garden, Westminster (1641);CSP Dom. 1641-3, pp. 98, 134. house of his bro. Walter Cave in Grandpont, St Aldate’s, Oxf. (1644).Toynbee, Young, Strangers in Oxford, 10, 20-1.

Religion

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