John Cage was a citizen of London and the holder of the Manor of Totteridge in Hertfordshire which was granted to him by Queen Elizabeth I in 1590 but lost to the Peacock family following a legal case.
He married Jane, daughter of Richard Thornhill of Bromley, Kent, and had a son, Richard (still living in 1623), of Thames Ditton, who was married in London on 3 February 1596, to Jane Fowler, daughter of Lady Brocket by her first husband, Gabriel Fowler.
[3] In 1591, he became a governor of Queen Elizabeth's School, in nearby Chipping Barnet.
In 1593, John Cage of Totteridge, gentleman, was assessed to make a contribution to the defence of the kingdom of 40l.
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