Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cave, John
CAVE, JOHN (d. 1657), ejected clergyman, was born at Pickwell in Leicestershire, and was the third son of ‘John Cave, Esq., and Elizabeth Brudenell, wife.’ He was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he was for eight years chamber fellow with the famous Robert Sanderson. In 1629 he was presented to the rectory of his native parish, where he ‘attended to his ministerial cure with great diligence, and lived in great esteem and respect till the breaking out of the rebellion in 1642.’ A long and vivid account of his sufferings was given by his son, William Cave [q. v.], to Mr. Walker, who has inserted it in full in his ‘Sufferings of the Clergy’ (pt. ii. 220). He was dispossessed, and was at first entertained with his family by his old neighbours, ‘but was not suffered to continue there, nor to teach school there or elsewhere. Whereupon he took up his dwelling near Stamford, where not being suffered to abide long, he removed up to London; where, being broken with age and sufferings, and worn out with long and tedious winter journeys from committee to committee, he departed this life in November 1657.’
The only publication of Cave's extant is to be found in the ‘Lachrymæ Musarum,’ 1650. It is entitled ‘An Elegie upon the much lamented Death of the Lord Hastings, only Son and Heir of the Earl of Huntingdon, deceased at London, 1649. Sic flevit deditiss. familiæ ejusdem et humillimus servus, J. Cave.’
[Nichols's History and Antiquities of Leicestershire, vol. ii. pt. ii. pp. 773, &c.; Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, pt. ii. 220.]