[1] Grove, on becoming chaplain to Humphrey Henchman, Bishop of London, was presented by him to the rectory of Wennington, Essex, on 21 February 1667, which he left before 27 January 1669.These livings he resigned on obtaining from Henchman the wealthy rectory of St. Andrew Undershaft, London, on 18 February 1670.He took part in drawing up the famous petition against James II's declaration for liberty of conscience in May 1688.Grove had verses in Academiae Cantabrigiensis σώστρα, 1660, and his Carmen de Sanguinis Circuitu a Gulielmo Harvaeo primum invento was published with some miscellaneous poems in 1685.His other writings, excluding sermons published separately, are: Grove also translated into Latin Bishop Thomas Barlow's Popery, London, 1682.