Background
His mother, a pious woman, was daughter of the Review John Pearson of Peasmarsh, Sussex. She died 20 November 1639.
His mother, a pious woman, was daughter of the Review John Pearson of Peasmarsh, Sussex. She died 20 November 1639.
Samuel"s father was a baker. He later became an attorney-at-law at Rye, and in 1651 was made a freeman and common, or town, clerk. This office he resigned, or was deprived of, after the passing of the act of 1661 excluding dissenters from municipal corporations.
As a sectarian preacher, Jeake frequently clashed with the authorities.
He was prosecuted before the privy council in 1681, and his meeting-house was shut up. Next year he was again delated, under the Five Miles Acting.
Brought to London, he remained there till 1687, when the toleration which James II extended to the dissenters enabled him to return to Rye. There he took part in meetings till his death, on 3 October 1690.
He had a large library, and compiled a catalogue.
Remains of a storehouse built by him, and of a horoscope on the front, survived in Mermaid Street, Rye. When Conrad Aiken was London correspondent for The New Yorker, he used the pen name "Samuel Jeake Junior".