CAVE, WILLIAM English divine, was born at Pickwell, Leicestershire. He was educated at St. John's col lege, Cambridge, and successively held the livings of Islington (1662), of All-Hallows the Great, Thames street, London and of Isleworth in Middlesex (1690). Dr. Cave was chaplain to Charles II. and in 1684 became a canon of Windsor. His principal works are the Apostolici, 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, 1740-43. He died at Windsor on July 4, 1713.