www.dartfordarchive.org.uk/medieval/politics_wt.shtml ABEL KER, ROBERT CAVE, AND THE ATTACK ON DARTFORD The revolt against Richard II’s poll tax started in Essex, not Dartford. On 31 May 1381, 5,000 peasants and fishermen from Stanford-le-Hope, Fobbing and Corringham, marched into Brentwood to confront the commissioner of taxes. The chief justice was despatched to maintain law and order. Six of his men were beheaded by the peasant army. Plunder and riot spread through Essex. Abel Ker, a resident of Erith was a leader of the Kentish peasants. He and his followers raided the monastery at Lesnes and frightened its abbot into swearing an oath to support him and his men. They then took a boat across the River Thames and persuaded some 100 men from Barking to re-cross the river with them. On 5 June 1381 the combined force raided Dartford. Though Abel Ker and his ever-increasing band of followers attacked Dartford they were not in sufficient strength to do much damage. A large number of men from Dartford came out and joined them as recruits. Robert CAVE, a Dartford baker took over the leadership from Abel Ker. At the Dartford house of Thomas Shardelow, the coroner of Kent, large quantities of official documents were seized by the rioters and ceremoniously burnt in the streets of the town. CAVE and his men then marched to Rochester where they plundered the castle, finally heading off to Maidstone for more plunder and murder. CAVE was later arrested and imprisoned for ten years. ===================================== Tingewick, Buckinghamshire, England http://website.lineone.net/~tingewick_history/twkg15.htm William Cave was born before 1795. He died after 1817. William married Sarah. William was employed butcher before 1816 - after 1817 in Tingewick. Sarah was born before 1795. She died after 1817. Sarah married William CAVE. They had the following children: ...Sarah CAVE was christened 1 15 Jan 1816 in Tingewick. ...Benjamin CAVE was christened 1 11 May 1817 in Tingewick. Other CAVEs at the website: Anne, Catharine, Catherine Dudley, Elizabeth, George, Gertrude Rosa, John, John Dennis, John Dudley, John Henry, Rebecca, Robert Dudley, Sarah, Ssuanna, Thomas, William, William Dudley. =========================================== freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~brett/stretton.htm Bagshaw's 1846 Trade Directory of Derbyshire STRETTON-EN-LE-FIELD parish, locally situated in the Hundred of Goscote, Leicestershire, contains, besides its own township, a part of the hamlet of Oakthorpe, which forms a joint township with Donisthorpe, described with Church Gresley parish. STRETTON-EN-LE-FIELD township and neat pleasant village, 5 miles S.W. from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, contains 1,006A. of land, 18 houses, and 116 inhabitants, of whom 50 were males, and 66 females. Rateable value, £1,915. Sir John Robert Cave Brown, Bart., is owner, lord of the manor, and patron of the church, St Michael’s, a rectory valued in the King’s book £9 10s. 5d., now £250. The Rev. William Astley Cave Browne Cave is rector. The church, an ancient structure, has lately been repaired, in which are some ancient tombs of ecclesiastics, and memorials of the Browne family. The rectory, a handsome mansion, east of the church, was rebuilt in 1845 ; it has 50 acres of glebe, and the tithe, amounting to £217, is paid by commutation. The Hall, a hand- some mansion now (1845) undergoing considerable repairs, is a little west of the church, in a very romantic and picturesque situation. This manor was for several centuries held by a family of its own name, under the Earls of Derby. Charles Browne, Esq., possessed it as early as the year 1600, and rebuilt the manor house. William Browne, Esq., the last heir male of this family, died in 1744 ; his coheiress married - Cave, and Chambers John Cave, Esq., who (possessing this estate by inheritance from his maternal grandfather,) took the name of Browne. On the death of the Rev. Sir Charles Cave, Bart., in 1806, William Cave Browne, Esq., succeeded to the title. =================================== http://www.archives.lib.soton.ac.uk/guide/MS96.shtml University of Southampton Libraries Special Collections MS 96 - Papers of NATHANIEL CAVE, 1824-67 Contents: Papers and correspondence of Nathaniel Cave, owner of sugar plantations in the West Indies, including mortgages of plantations called Lightfoots in St John and St Philip, and Maynards, Barbados; correspondence between Cave and his agents and attorneys, John Charles Armstrong and Augustus Briggs, giving details of the estate, sugar yields, etc.; family correspondence, with Cave's daughter and son-in-law, the Revd and Mrs. Vernon Yonge of Bolas Rectory, Wellington, Shropshire, and with his son Revd Robert Cave of Lydgate Rectory, Newmarket, 1824-67; extract from the diary of Revd Robert Cave, 1864. Former References: Formerly A85 Size: 3 folders ====================================