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Page history last edited by PBworks 16 years, 11 months ago

William Cave (d.1629)

FOUNDER OF THE YATELEY DYNASTY

William Cave, clerk to the Auditor for Wales, was the founder of the branch of the Cave family living in or around Yateley for the next four hundred years.

 

In 1617 William purchased a property in Yateley now known as Monteagle House, although he continued to own a house in Wood Street in the parish of St Albans in the City of London. Recent research has shown that before he came to Yateley he had been one of the major landowners in Sandhurst. A survey of all the lands within the Forest of Windsor made in 1613 states that he owned one faire house in Sandhurst.

 

William's father was Anthony Cave, one of the Cursitors in the Court of Chancery. Cursitor Cave lived, and died, not far from Cursitor Street, off Chancery Lane. He was closely related to Thomas Hanbury and William Neale, two of the seven Auditors of Exchequer. These three men were thus senior officials of what we would now call the Treasury, but then also included judicial functions. William Cave initially worked for Thomas Hanbury.

 

William's wife was Ann Mascall, daughter of Richard Mascall. So far I have not been able to trace this family, but a Cave historian decended from William Cave believes the Mascalls originated in Lewes, Sussex. William and Ann Cave had two children, Blanche and William. Blanche, who was probably named after Thomas Hanbury's wife, Blanche Bowyer, married Nicholas Hanbury, who was grandson of Thomas and Blanche Hanbury. So William's family relationship with his "boss" was close. The first William Cave living in Yateley died in 1629 and left a will. His wife Ann lived on at Monteagle House (then named Brickhills) until 1654. It appears from Poor Rate records at the end of the Commonwealth that Nicholas and Blanche Hanbury lived at Monteagle House at least until Blanche's brother William married Rebecca Swayne in 1666 at the mature age of about 46.

 

The first William Cave's son William had attended Oxford University in 1638 but then we can find no trace of him until 1660. At the age of 69 he sold Monteagle House in 1688, and went to live with his son William in Elvetham. When owning property in Yateley the Caves were copyholders of the Manor of Crondall, so the admittances to their property and their surrenders to others are fully recorded in the manorial records still to be seen in the Winchester Cathedral Library. These records also record mortgages of their property to third parties. There were several mortgages recorded in the 1670s and 1680s in which William & Rebecca mortgaged Monteagle House to rich local people, then paid off the mortgage and recovered the property. Were they in financial trouble, or just using their capital for trading? I should love to find out. I should also love to know what the second William Cave was doing and where he was living in the crucial period between the time the royal court retreated to Oxford and the Restoration of Charles II (1640-1660). Whatever he was doing it prevented him from getting married at a normal age.

 

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