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CAVE, WILLIAM (1637–1713)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 573 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CAVE, See also:WILLIAM (1637–1713) , See also:English divine, was See also:born at Pickwell in See also:Leicestershire. He was educated at St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, and successively held the livings of See also:Islington (1662), of All-Hallows the See also:Great, See also:Thames See also:Street, See also:London (1679), and of Isleworth in. See also:Middlesex (169o). Dr Cave was See also:chaplain to See also:Charles II., and in 1684 became a See also:canon of See also:Windsor. The two See also:works on which his reputation principally rests are the A postolici, or See also:History of Apostles and Fathers in the first three centuries of the See also:Church (1677), and Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Historia Literaria (1688). The best edition of the latter is the See also:Clarendon See also:Press, 1740-1743, which contains additions by the author and others. In both works he was See also:drawn into controversy with See also:Jean le Clerc, who was then See also:writing his Bibliotheque universelle, and who accused him of partiality. He wrote several other works of the same nature which exhibit scholarly See also:research and lucid arrangement. He is said to have been a See also:good talker and an eloquent preacher. His See also:death occurred at Windsor on the 4th of See also:July 1713.

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