Samuel Jeake 1623-1690
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Samuel JEAKE 1623-90
Biographical Note
Born at Rye, son of Henry Jeake, baker. His education is not recorded but he became a leading figure in Rye in the 1640s as a supporter of the parliamentary cause in the Civil War. He became town clerk of Rye in 1651, was registrar there later in the 1650s, and sometimes preached. After the Restoration he led the town's nonconformist congregation, while also working as a lawyer there; during the 1680s, he spent some years in London.
Books
The contents of his private library of ca.2100 volumes are known from his manuscript catalogue, now in the Jeake manuscripts at Rye Museum.
Sources
- Cambers, A. Godly reading, 2011, 127.
- Hoare, P. (gen.ed.), The Cambridge history of libraries in Britain and Ireland. 3 vols. Cambridge, 2006, II 182-4.
- Hunter, Michael. "Jeake, Samuel (1623–1690), lawyer and nonconformist preacher." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Hunter, M. et al, A radical’s books: the library catalogue of Samuel Jeake (1999).