[Illustration] A family of great antiquity, which can be traced to
the Conquest; originally of South and North Cave in Yorkshire. In
the fifteenth century they removed into Northamptonshire and
Leicestershire, and were long of Stanford, in the former county. The
elder line of the Caves becoming extinct in 1810, the Baronetcy
devolved on a younger branch, descended in the female line from the
Brownes of Stretton, and from hence their connection with
Derbyshire.
See Nichols's History of Leicestershire, vol. iv. part i. 350, for a
curious account of this family, and for their monuments in Stanford
Church, (the earliest of which is that for John Cave, who died in
1471;) Pedigree at p. 371; Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 164; Lysons,
xviii.
ARMS.--_Azure, fretty argent_. This coat was borne by "Monsire de
Cave;" see the Roll of Arms of the reign of Edward III.
Present Representative, Sir Mylles Cave-Browne-Cave, 11th
Baronet.