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

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.

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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