WILLIAM

See also:

• CAVE (Lat. cavea, from caves, hollow)
• CAVE, EDWARD (1691–1754)
• WILLIAM CAVE (1637–1713)

CAVE (1637–1713)  , English divine, was born at Pickwell in Leicestershire . He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, and successively held the livings of Islington (1662), of All-Hallows the Great, Thames Street, London (1679), and of Isleworth in . Middlesex (169o) . Dr Cave was chaplain to Charles II., and in 1684 became a canon of Windsor . The two works on which his reputation principally rests are the A postolici, or History of Apostles and Fathers in the first three centuries of the Church (1677), and Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Historia Literaria (1688) . The best edition of the latter is the Clarendon Press, 1740-1743, which contains additions by the author and others . In both works he was drawn into controversy with Jean le Clerc, who was then writing his Bibliotheque universelle, and who accused him of partiality . He wrote several other works of the same nature which exhibit scholarly research and lucid arrangement . He is said to have been a good talker and an eloquent preacher . His death occurred at Windsor on the 4th of July 1713 .