Richard Cave, Esq., of Stanford

"Richard Cave, Esq., of Stanford, greatly increased his patrimony and the social position of his family." (1)

From thePeerage.com:

Richard Cave is the son of Thomas Cave and Thomasine Passamer. He married, firstly, Elizabeth Marvyn, daughter of John Marvyn. He married, secondly, Margaret Saxby, daughter of Sir Thomas Saxby.

He also had a daughter by his first wife, and another daughter by his second wife. He lived at Stanford, Northamptonshire, England. He was also known as Roger.

Child of Richard Cave and Elizabeth Marvyn

• 1. Edward Cave+

Children of Richard Cave and Margaret Saxby

• 1. Rt. Hon. Sir Ambrose Cave+ d. 2 Apr 1568
• 2. Sir Thomas Cave+
• 3. Anthony Cave+ d. 9 Sep 1558
• 4. Francis Cave
• 5. Richard Cave
• 6. Brian Cave+

Links

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• Richard Cave, Esq.1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
• M, #84660, b. circa 1470, d. 20 April 1538
• Father Thomas Cave b. c 1445, d. 17 Sep 1495
• Mother Thomasine Passemer b. c 1448
• Richard Cave, Esq. was born circa 1470 at of Stanford-on-Avon, Northamptonshire, England.2 He married Elizabeth Marvin, daughter of John Marvin, circa 1490 at of Stanford, Northamptonshire, England. Richard Cave, Esq. married Margaret Saxby, daughter of John Saxby, circa 1495.1,2,4,5,6,9 Richard Cave, Esq. died on 20 April 1538.
• Family 1 Elizabeth Marvin b. c 1470, d. 9 Aug 1493
• Child
  • Edward Cave+ b. c 1491, d. 1533
• Family 2 Margaret Saxby b. c 1472, d. c Mar 1532
• Children
  • Sir Thomas Cave+10 b. c 1500, d. 4 Sep 1558
  • Bridget Cave+11,3,4,5,7,8 b. c 1506
  • Anthony Cave, Gent., Burgess of Liverpool+1,2,6 b. c 1514, d. 9 Sep 1558
• Citations
• [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 467.
• [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 55.
• [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 420.
• [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 177.
• [S6] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 59-60.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 636.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 454.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 129.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 198.
• [S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, Family History Archives, SLC.
• [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 601.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2818.htm#... ___________
• Richard Cave1
• M, #210210
• Last Edited=5 Nov 2006
• Richard Cave is the son of Thomas Cave and Thomasine Passamer.2 He married, firstly, Elizabeth Marvyn, daughter of John Marvyn.1 He married, secondly, Margaret Saxby, daughter of Sir Thomas Saxby.1
• He also had a daughter by his first wife, and another daughter by his second wife.1 He lived at Stanford, Northamptonshire, England.1 He was also known as Roger.1
• Child of Richard Cave and Elizabeth Marvyn
  • Edward Cave+2
• Children of Richard Cave and Margaret Saxby
  • Rt. Hon. Sir Ambrose Cave+2 d. 2 Apr 1568
  • Sir Thomas Cave+2
  • Anthony Cave+2 d. 9 Sep 1558
  • Francis Cave2
  • Richard Cave2
  • Brian Cave+2
• Citations
• [S37] BP2003 volume 1, page 725. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
• [S37] BP2003. [S37]
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p21021.htm#i210210 ______________
• Genealogical Memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicheley ..., Volume 1 By Robert Edmond Chester Waters
• https://books.google.com/books?id=oGMBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA78#v=onepage&q&...
• https://archive.org/details/genealogicalmemo01wate_0
• https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalmemo01wate_0#page/74/mode/1up
• The earliest of the brasses in Stanford Church is that of John Cave, who was appointed Vicar of Stanford by the Abbot of Selby 9th May 1458, and died 27th Feb. 1471-2. (2) He is said in the Visitation of Leicestershire 1618 to have been the nephew of the Abbot, and the brother of PETER CAVE of Stanford, who married Margaret Burdet of Rowell, and who is commemorated by a brass engraved with this inscription under the figures of a man and his wife. (2)
• .... etc.
• THOMAS CAVE, son of Peter and Margaret, succeeded his father at Stanford, and died 17th Sept. 1495. His brass in the church bears the effigies of a man, his two wives, and eight children, and is thus inscribed : (2)
• .... etc.
• RICHARD CAVE Esq. of Stanford, the eldest son of Thomas Cave by Thomasine Passemere of Essex, greatly increased his patrimony and the social position of his family. He was High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 22 Hen. VIII. 1530, and was the first of his name who filled that office. He owed much of his advancement to his friendly intimacy with Cromwell, who was then the chief secretary of Cardinal Wolsey, and was fast rising to power. Several letters from Richard Cave and his son Thomas are preserved in the State-Paper Office amongst Cromwell's correspondence. The earliest is dated 18th June 1528, when after thanking him for his good cheer during his recent visit, Cave asks him to provide for his son Anthony, who wanted a place in England fit for a merchant to fill. (4) It appears from other letters that Cromwell was a frequent and friendly visitor at Stanford, and that he was always willing to assist his friend in procuring favourable leases of tithes and other church lands in the gift of the Cardinal and the King. (4) It is evident from his Will that Cave acquired considerable wealth, which enabled him to make ample provision for his numerous children. But as he died in 1538, before the dissolution of Monasteries, he cannot fairly be reckoned amongst those new men who were enriched by the spoliation of the religious houses, although his sons afterwards shared largely in the plunder.
• Richard Cave had two wives. By his first wife Elizabeth Mervin of Church
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• Lawford in Warwickshire, who died 9th August 1493, he had only two children Edward and Margaret.
• 1. Edward Cave married Dorothy, daughter and coheir of Nicholas Mallory Esq. of Newbold Revell, co. Warwick, and died in his father's lifetime, leaving two daughters Catharine and Margaret. Catharine married before 1536 Sir Thomas Andrew Kt. of Charwelton, and died 18th August 1555. Their son Thomas Andrew had the lamentable honour of presiding at the execution of Mary Queen of Scots on 8th February 1586-7, he being the High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in that year. (5) Margaret married after 1536 Thomas Boughton Esq. of Causton in Warwickshire.
• 2. Margaret Cave married Thomas Saunders Esq. of Sibbertoft, co. Leicester, who died 1st March 1528-9, leaving seven sons and six daughters. (6) Two of their sons were personages of some note. Lawrence Saunders sometime apprentice to Sir William Chester, and afterwards Rector of All Hallows Broad-street, was burnt to death for heresy at Coventry 8th Feb. 1554-5, and has been already noticed in my account of Sir William Chester. His brother Sir Edward Saunders was a fervent Catholic and a zealous partizan of Queen Mary, who appointed him a Judge of Common Pleas 4th Oct. 1553. He was knighted by King Philip on 27th Jan. 1554-5, just two days before his brother's conviction, and his letters are extant by which he vainly implored his brother to retract his errors 'about the most Blessed and our most comfortable Sacrament of the Altar.' He became Chief-Justice of England 8th May 1557, but soon after the accession of Queen Elizabeth was removed, on account of his attachment to the old religion, into the Court of Exchequer, of which he was Chief-Baron until his death. (7) He died in London 12th Nov. 1576, and probably of some contagious fever, as his chaplain died at the same time. His body was removed to his seat in Warwickshire at Weston-under-Weatherley, where his monument still remains ; but his interment is thus noticed in the Burial Register of St. Peter-le-Poor London : '1576. Nov. 26. Sir Edward Saunders Lord Chief-Baron and John Smyth clerk, his chaplain, whose corpses were carried into the country.' Sir Edward was one of the supervisors of the Will of his uncle Anthony Cave of Chicheley.
• The second wife of Richard Cave was Margaret Saxby, the sister of William and John Saxby, who were considerable Merchants of the Staple at Northampton and Calais. William Saxby brought up his nephew Anthony Cave to his own business, and died without issue in April 1517. There is a brass to his memory in Stanford Church.
• .... etc.
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• Margaret Cave died before her husband in March 1531-2, leaving eight sons and five daughters. Richard Cave died 20th April 1538, and the brass effigies of him and his two wives still remain in Stanford Church. (3)
• .... etc.
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• Richard Cave had issue by his second wife Margaret Saxby thirteen children, eight sons and five daughters.
• I. SIR THOMAS CAVE succeeded his father at Stanford, and purchased from the crown in 1540 the estates which had belonged to Selby Abbey in the counties of Northampton and Leicester, and which his family had held so long as lessees. He died in 1558, and his surviving son and heir Roger Cave married 24th November 1561, Margaret Cecil, sister of the famous Lord Burghley,* who remarried Erasmus Smith Esq., another of the grandsons of Richard Cave. Roger Cave was the ancestor of the Baronets of the name of Cave, who still flourish.
• II. ANTHONY CAVE of Chicheley, of whom hereafter.
• III. CLEMENT, married Margery Mallory, the sister of his brother Edward's widow. He died without issue 30th November 1538, and has a brass in Stanford church.
• IV. SIR AMBROSE CAVE is called in his father's Will a Knight of Rhodes, which was the popular name for a Knight Hospitaller of the aristocratic Order of St. John of Jerusalem. He was admitted into the Order in 1525, and claimed the Commandery of Shengay, which involved him in much litigation. When the Order was dissolved by Statute in 1540, a pension of 100 marks per annum was assigned to him. His release from his vows must have been highly acceptable to him ; for we soon find him married to an heiress and engaged actively in political life. He was M.P. for Leicestershire in two Parliaments of Queen Mary, and then for Warwickshire until his death. On the accession of Queen Elizabeth he was sworn of her Privy Council, and on 22d December 1558 was made Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. With all the zeal of a convert he formally complained to the House of Commons on 6th March 1558-9, that Alderman White had slandered him by stating that he misliked the Book of Common Prayer ; but the Alderman explained, that Sir Ambrose had only wished that the book might be well considered ; and so the matter ended, after having fulfilled its probable purpose of displaying the zeal of the new Chancellor for the religious innovations of his royal mistress. He was constantly employed by Queen Elizabeth unil his death, which took place on 2d April 1568. He died in
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• London, and his obsequies weve solemnly performed in the Chuch of the Savoy on 10th April 1568, but his body was afterwards carried to Stanford. His only daughter Margaret was born 25th April 1559, and married before her father's death Henry Knolls, the son and heir apparent of Sir Francis Knollys K.G. Sir Ambrose Cave seems to have been educated at St. John's College Cambridge and Magdalen College Oxford ; for he founded two scholarships in each of those colleges with preference to his kindred. His flattery of Queen Elizabeth has been perpetuated by a portrait of him with a yellow garter round his left arm. One night at Court the Queen's garter had slipped off whilst she was dancing : Sir Ambrose picked it up and tied it on his left arm, vowing that he would wear it there for his mistress's sake as long as he lived. (8)
• V. FRANCIS CAVE was a Doctor of Civil Law, and was ancestor to the Caves of Bagrave, co. Leicester. He was an executor of his father and of his brother Anthony.
• VI. RICHARD CAVE of Pickwell, co. Leicester, married Barbara, daughter of Sir William Fielding Kt., ancestor of the Earls of Denbigh. His great-grandson Doctor William Cave, Canon of Windsor, was the well-known author of the Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Historia Literaria.
• VII. BRIAN CAVE of Ingarsby, of whom hereafter.
• VIII. AUGUSTINE CAVE, a monk. On the suppression of religious houses he had an annuity settled on him by his brother Anthony Cave of Chicheley.
• I. ELIZABETH CAVE, married before 1517 William Wyrley Esq. of Hamsted in Staffordshire. They were both living in 1556 with children.
• II. . . . . . . CAVE (her Christian name is unknown to me), married Robert Chauntrell Esq. of Foxton, who was one of the executors of Richard Cave in 1538. Mrs. Chauntrell is omitted from all the printed pedigrees of Cave, although she is mentioned with her children in her father's Will.
• III. DOROTHY CAVE married William Smith als Heris of Withcock, co. Leicester, who died 1546. She then married Sir Henry Poole Kt., a Knight of Rhodes. Her eldest son Erasmus Smith married Margaret Cecil, the widow of his cousin Roger Cave. His son Henry Smith was the eloquent lecturer of St. Clement Danes, who was commonly known as 'silver-tongued' Smith, and was called by his contemporaries the Chrysostom of England. In one of his best-known sermons he enlarged on the duty of mothers suckling their own children, for it was then almost the universal practice amongst women of condition to place their infants out at nurse in the suburbs of London. Such was the force of his eloquence, that 'many persons of honour and worship, ladies and great gentlewomen, forthwith recalled their children home in order to suckle them themselves.' His preaching was effectual with others besides the great ; for he was employed by his granduncle Brian Cave of Ingarsby during his Shrievalty in 1582 to reclaim Dickons, a blasphemous heretic, who had been brought before the Justices, and Dickons was so much impressed by his preaching that he renounced his blasphemies, and lived peaceably for the rest of his life. Smith died at the early age of thirty-one, and was buried at his father's seat of Husband's
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• Bosworth 4th July 1591. His sermons were collected and published by Fuller in 1657, who praises them as 'so solid that the learned may admire, and so plain that the unlearned may perfectly understand them.' They are singularly free from the quaintness and affected learning of his age, and even the modern reader will find it difficult to name any English preacher who has since excelled Smith in pulpit eloquence. (9)
• IV. PRUDENCE CAVE married about 1528 John Croke Esq. of Chilton, Bucks. He was one of the six Clerks in Chancery who were allowed to marry by Statute in 1522, and purchased Chilton from Lord Zouche in 1529. He was made Serjeant-at-law 1546, and a master in Chancery in 1549, and died 2d September 1554, having long survived his wife. Two of his grandsons were Judges of great eminence, and it is remarkable how many of his descendants achieved distinction at the Bar or married personages of high legal rank. The pedigree below is from considerations of space confined to the most noteworthy examples. (10)
• .... etc.
• V. BRIDGET CAVE married Francis Tanfield Esq. of Gayton, who died 21st November 1558. She survived him many years, and died 20th June 1583. Their son and heir Clement Tanfield of Gayton was the father of Sir Lawrence Tanfield Kt. Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer 1607-24, whose grandson Lord Falkland Avas one of the heroes of the civil wars. (11)
• Anne Tanfield daughter of Francis Tanfield and Bridget Cave married Clement Vincent Esq. of Harpole Northants, who was one of the executors of Anthony Cave of Chicheley, and their daughter Elizabeth .... etc. __________________
• Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition ... By Douglas Richardson
• http://books.google.com/books?id=kjme027UeagC&printsec=frontcover&d...
• Pg.452
• 16. ELIZABETH LOVETT, married (1st) before 1538 ANTHONY CAVE, Gent., of Chicheley, Buckinghamshire, Burgess (m.P.) for Liverpool, son of Richard Cave, Esq., of Stanford-on-Avon,
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• Northamptonshire, by his 2nd wife, Margaret, sister of William Saxby, Merchant of the Staple of Calais. They had one son and five daughters, including Judith (wife of William Chester, Esq.), Anne (wife of Griffith Hampden, Esq.), Martha (wife of John Newdigate, Esq.), and Mary. He was trained by his uncle, William Saxby, to the trade of a merchant of the Staple of Calais, and was later a merchant at London. he purshased the manor of Drayton near Daventry, northamptonshire, and the manors of Chicheley and Thickthornes, Buckinghamshire, with other possessions of the dissolved Abbey of Tickford. ANTHONY CAVE, Gent., died 9 Sept. 1558, and was buried at Chicheley, Buckinghamshire. he left a will proved 5 Dec. 1558 (P.C.C. 7 Welles). His widow Elizabeth, married (2nd) in London 19 Nov. 1559 (as his 2nd wife) JOHN NEWDIGATE, Esq., of Harefield, Middlesex, Knight of the Shire for Middlesex, 1553, 1554, 1558, 2nd son of John Newdigate, Esq., of Harefield, Middlesex, by Anne, daughter and heiress of Nicholas Hylton, Esq. He was born 9 Oct. 1514. They had one son, Francis. JOHN NEWDIGATE, Esq., died 16 Aug. 1565, and was buried at Harefield, Middlesex. Administration on his estate was granted 4 July 1566. His widow Elizabeth, married (3rd) at Chicheley, Buckinghamshire 7 July 1566 (as his 3rd wife) RICHARD WESTON, Esq., of Skreens (in Roxwell), Essex and Middle Temple, London, Justice of the Common Pleas, Burgess (M.P.) for Lostwithiel, 1553, Saltash, 1553, Lancaster, 1554, and Maldon, 1555, Solicitor General, 1557-9, Sergeant-at-law, 1559, Queen's Serjeant, 1559, Justice of Common Pleas, 1559-72, 3rd son of Richard Weston, Gent., of Colchester, Essex. They had no issue. RICHARD WESTON, Esq., died 6 July 1572. He left a will dated 4 July 1572, proved 29 July 1572 (P.C.C. 26, Daper). His widow, Elizabeth, died 20 Aug. 1577, and was buried at Chicheley, Buckinghamshire. She left a will dated 24 July 1577, proved 20 Nov. 1577 (P.C.C. 44 Daughtry)
• .... etc. ______________________
• CAVE, Francis (by 1502-83), of Godstone, Surr.; Baggrave and Leicester, Leics. and London.
• b. by 1502, 3rd or 4th s. of Richard Cave of Stanford, Northants. by 2nd w., and bro. of Sir Ambrose. educ. Louvain, matric. 3 Dec. 1522; Christ Church, Oxf. DCL by 1532; adv. Doctors’ Commons, adm. 14 Oct. 1533. m. disp. 18 Jan. 1539, Margaret, da. of Thomas Lisle of Surr., wid. of Edward Ashton of Godstone, 6s. inc. Thomas† 2da.1
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/ca... _____________
• CAVE, Francis (d.1583), of Baggrave, Leics.
• s. of Richard Cave of Stanford, Northants, by his 2nd w. Margaret, da. of John (or Thomas) Saxby of Northants.; bro. of Sir Ambrose. educ. Doctors’ Commons, adv. and LLD by 1533. m. by Nov. 1543, Margaret, da. of Thomas Lisle of Surr., wid. of Edmund Ashton, 6s. inc. Thomas 2da.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/ca... ______________
• CAVE, Sir Ambrose (by 1503-68), of Duddeston, Nuneaton and Kingsbury, Warws.; Stanford, Northants. and Rothley, Leics.
• b. by 1503, s. of Richard Cave of Stanford by his 2nd w. Margaret, da. of John or Thomas Saxby of Northants.; bro. of Francis. m. Margaret, da. and coh. of William Willington of Barcheston, Warws., wid. of Thomas Holte† (d.1546) of Duddeston, 1da. Kntd. 1525.1
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/ca... _________________
• CAVE, Sir Ambrose (by 1503-68), of Duddeston, Warws.
• b. by 1503, 4th or 5th s. of Richard Cave of Stanford, Northants. by 2nd w. Margaret, da. of John or Thomas Saxby of Northampton; bro. of Francis†. m. Margaret, da. and coh. of William Willington of Barcheston, Warws., wid. of Thomas Holte (d. 23 Mar. 1546) of Duddeston, 1da. Kntd. by 1525.1
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/ca... _________
• POOLE, Henry II (by 1507-59), of Kirk Langley, Derbys. and Withcote, Leics.
• b. by 1507, 1st s. of Henry Poole of Chesterfield, Derbys. by Ursula, da. and h. of Thomas Twyford of Kirk Langley. m. Dorothy, da. of Richard Cave of Stanford, Northants., wid. of John Smith (d.1544) of Withcote; 1s. 1da. illegit.1
• Offices Held
  • Member, order of St. John of Jerusalem 23 July 1528, lt. turcopolier 1534, preceptor, Dalby, Leics. 1535-40; j.p. Leics. 1538-d.; commr. musters 1539, 1546, relief 1550; sheriff, Warws. and Leics. 1558-d.2
• Henry Poole came of a cadet branch of the family seated at Radbourne, Derbyshire. He appears to have been the heir to his father’s lands but none the less chose to make his career in the order of St. John of Jerusalem which he entered on 23 July 1528. In 1533 he was a witness in the controversy over Sir Clement West’s deposition from the office of turcopolier and in 1534 he succeeded Edward Bellingham as lieutenant turcopolier. In 1535, while in Malta, he was appointed preceptor of Dalby and on his return he engaged in a dispute with the lessee of the demesne, Humphrey Babington, whom he wished to evict. He was soon facing the much graver problem of the future of the order in England and, with it, of his own position, but on its suppression in 1540, he received an annuity of 200 marks out of its Leicestershire properties. He appears to have continued to live at Dalby for some time, even after it was first leased, and in 1544 sold, to his cousin Andrew Nowell: he still had some interest in the parish at his death.3
• Poole had already begun to take part in local administration, and in 1544 he led a contingent from Leicestershire in the war with France: at this time he was generally styled knight as he had been in the order. It was almost certainly his namesake, a Member for Wootton Bassett in the Parliament of October 1553, who was the gentleman pensioner at the funerals of Henry VIII, Edward VI and Mary. It is not known when he married Dorothy Smith, sister of his fellow-hospitaller Sir Ambrose Cave, but it was this which took him to Withcote, ‘one of the fairest houses in Leicestershire’, of which she enjoyed a life tenancy. It remained his principal residence although he engaged in building at Kirk Langley, leaving £100 in his will for the completion of the work: he sued out a pardon in October 1553 as of Withcote. The Cave connexion probably accounts for his election as second knight of the shire to the Parliament of April 1554, the returning officer Robert Throckmorton being one of his kinsmen. Nothing is known of Poole’s activity in the House.4
• In the autumn of 1558 Poole was himself pricked sheriff and after his death on 3 Feb. 1559 his term of office was completed by his brother-in-law Brian Cave. He had made his will on the previous 18 Apr., providing for his wife, his stepchildren, his own two illegitimate children and his many brothers (one of whom succeeded him at Kirk Langley) and nephews; his son Henry Poole alias Carter was still a schoolboy and his daughter Elizabeth was married to John Bussy of Haydor, Lincolnshire, whom he named executor with his brother William Poole. Amongst those to whom he left mourning rings were Sir Ambrose Cave and Andrew Nowell, whom he named as supervisor. His annuity was in arrears and he left one of the two payments of £66 13s.4d. outstanding ‘to answer the Queen’s privy seal for the hundred marks I must lend her grace’; he was also owed £55 by the crown purveyors. The will was proved on 17 Feb. 1559. Poole was buried in the church at Kirk Langley where his tomb bears the incised effigies of himself and his wife and an inscription identifying him as the church’s patron.5
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• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 09
• Cave, Ambrose by Sidney Lee
• CAVE, Sir AMBROSE (d. 1568), chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, was fourth son of Roger Cave of Stanford, Northamptonshire, by his second wife, Margaret Saxby. It is stated that he was a student at one time at St. John's College, Cambridge, and at another at Magdalen, Oxford. In 1525 he visited Rhodes as a knight hospitaller of St. John of Jerusalem. He was a brother of the Knights' Hospital at Shingay, Cambridgeshire, the governorship of which he tried hard to obtain, and in 1540, when the order was dissolved, received a pension of 66l. 13s. 4d. He became sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire in 1548, M.P. for Leicestershire 1545, 1547, and 1553, and for Warwickshire 1558, 1559, and 1562, a privy councillor on Elizabeth's accession, as one ‘well affected to the protestant religion,’ a commissioner to compound with holders of land worth 50l. a year who refused to be knighted 20 Dec. 1558 and 28 March 1559, chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster 22 Dec. 1558, and a commissioner ‘for the northern parts towards Scotland and Berwick’ a day later. In parliament Cave played a very small part. On 6 March 1558–9 he stated that a London alderman, Sir Thomas White, ‘misliked the Book of Common Prayer,’ and White was summoned to the house, which readily accepted his explanation. Cave was busily employed in 1559. He was nominated a commissioner to administer the oath of supremacy, 31 March; a searcher of the books and lodgings of two bishops, White of Winchester and Watson of Lincoln, suspected of papist leanings, 3 April; a joint-lieutenant of Warwickshire, 26 May; a commissioner for the visitation of the dioceses of Oxford, Lincoln, Lichfield and Coventry, and Peterborough, 22 July; a commissioner for raising men in Warwickshire and Shropshire for service at Berwick, 25 Sept. On 13 Feb. 1563–4 he went on a special commission for the trial of murders, burglaries, and other felonies. Cave was often at court, and the story runs that he once picked up the queen's garter, which had slipped off while she was dancing; Elizabeth declined to take it from him; he thereupon tied it on his left arm, and said he would wear it all his life for the sake of his mistress. A portrait of Cave with the garter round his arm was formerly the property of the Rev. Sir Charles Cave of Theddingworth, Leicestershire. Cave died 2 April 1568, and was buried at Stanford.
• He married Margaret, daughter of William Willington of Barcheston, Warwickshire, and widow of Thomas Holte, justice of North Wales. By her he had one child, Margaret, wife of Henry Knollys, son of Sir Henry Knollys, K.G.
• Thomas Cave of Stanford, the grandson of Sir Ambrose's eldest brother, was created a baronet by Charles I 30 June 1641. Sir Thomas's family still survives, and bears the surname of Cave-Browne-Cave (Foster, Baronetage, pp. 110–11).
• [Cooper's Athenæ Cantab. i. 251–2; Hayward's Annals of Elizabeth, p. 12; Cal. State Papers (Dom.), 1547–90; Bridges's Northamptonshire, i. 583; Rymer's Fœdera, xv. passim.]
• From: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Cave,_Ambrose_(DNB00)
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• Anthony Cave
• Birth: unknown, England
• Death: Sep. 9, 1558, England
• Anthony Cave, Esq., of Chicheley, Buckinghamshire, Burgess of Liverpool. Son of Richard Cave of Stanford-Upon-Avon and Margaret Saxby, sister of William.
• Husband of Elizabeth Lovett, daughter of Thomas Lovett and Anne Danvers, married before 1538. They had one son and five daughters.
• Anthony was trained by his uncle, William Saxby, to the trade of merchant of the Staple of Calais, and was later a merchant in London. He purchased the manor of Drayton, then Chicheley and Thickthornes, Buckinghamshire, and other possessions of the dissolved Abbey of Tickford.
• Family links:
• Spouse:
• Elizabeth Lovett Weston (____ - 1577)
• Children:
  • Mary Cave Weston (1556 - 1593)*
• Burial: St Lawrence Churchyard, Chicheley, Milton Keynes Borough, Buckinghamshire, England
• Find A Grave Memorial# 104911621
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=104911621 _____________
• Sir Thomas Cave
• Birth: 1497 Stanford-on-Avon, Northamptonshire, England
• Death: Sep. 4, 1558 Stanford-on-Avon, Northamptonshire, England
• Sir Thomas Cave is the son of Richard Cave and Margaret Saxby. In 1522 he married Elizabeth Danvers, daughter of Sir John Danvers and Margaret Hampton. He lived at Stanford, Northamptonshire. From this union was born 11 known children. They are: John CAVE he was born in 1523; Amy CAVE she was born in 1524; Mary CAVE she was born in 1526; Richard CAVE Esquire he was born in 1527 and died 1566. Richard married Elizabeth MONTAGU on 1551; Margaret CAVE she was born 1529. She married Sir William MERING on 1546 in Mering, Nottinghamshire, England; Edward CAVE he was born 1530. He married Elizabeth CONWAY on 1555 in Arrow, Warwickshire, England; Elizabeth CAVE she was born 1532, She married Sir Humphrey STAFFORD on 1552 in Blatherwycke, Northamptonshire, England; Margery CAVE she was born 1534; Roger CAVE Esquire he was born 1536 and died 26 Jul 1586, Roger married 7 Margaret CECIL on 24 Nov 1561 in St. Clement Danes, Westminster, Middlesex, England; Alice CAVE she was born 1538 and died 1617. Alice married John SKEFFINGTON Esquire on 1558 in Fisherwick, Staffordshire, England; Susan CAVE she was born 1540; Ambrose CAVE he was born 1542; and Anthony CAVE he was born 1545.
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• Elizabeth Danvers Cave (1502 - ____)
• Burial: St Nicholas Stanford-on-Avon, Stanford-on-Avon, Daventry District, Northamptonshire, England
• Find A Grave Memorial# 100291030
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=100291030 _________________
• SAUNDERS, Edward (1506-76), of Whitefriars, London; Westminster, Mdx. and Weston-under-Wetherley, Warws.
• b. 4 Apr. 1506, 1st surv. s. of Thomas Saunders of Sibbertoft, Northants. by Margaret, da. of Richard Cave of Stanford, Northants.; bro. of Robert. educ. Camb.; M. Temple, adm. 3 May 1524. m. (1) by 1540, Margery (d. 11 Oct. 1563), da. of Sir Thomas Englefield of Englefield, Berks., wid. of George Carew (d.1538) of (?Bury St. Edmunds) Suff., 1da.; (2) by 1566, Agnes, da. of one Hussey. suc. fa. 8 Mar. 1528. Kntd. 27 Jan. 1555.[footnote]
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/sa... __________
• SAUNDERS, Robert (c.1514-59), of Flore, Northants.
• b. c.1514, 2nd surv. s. of Thomas Saunders of Sibbertoft by Margaret, da. of Richard Cave of Stanford; bro. of Edward. educ. ?M. Temple. m. (1) Margaret, da. and h. of Thomas Stanton of Stanton, Mon., 2s. 1da.; (2) by Oct. 1558, Joyce, da. of Sir John Goodwin of Upper Winchendon, Bucks. at least 1s.1
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/sa... ___________
• SAUNDERS, Robert (c.1514-59), of Flore, Northants.
• b. c.1514, 2nd surv. s. of Thomas Saunders of Sibbertoft by Margaret, da. of Richard Cave of Stanford; bro. of Edward Saunders†. educ. M. Temple, ?adm. 1518. m. (1) Margaret, da. and h. of Thomas Stanton of Stanton, Mon., 2s. 1da.; (2) by Oct. 1558, Joyce, da. of Sir John Goodwin of Upper Winchendon, Bucks., at least 1s.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/sa... _______________________
• CROKE, John II (1530-1608), of Chilton, Bucks.
• b. 1530, s. and h. of John Croke of Chilton, master in Chancery, by Prudencia, 3rd da. of Richard Cave of Stanford, Northants. educ. sp. adm. I. Temple 1547. m. Elizabeth, da. of Sir Alexander Unton of Chequers, Bucks. and Wadley, Berks., 5s. inc. George and John III 3da. suc. fa. 1554. Kntd. 1603.1
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/cr... _______________

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