Robert Beake (died 22 September 1708) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1654 and 1679.
In 1657 he wrote his diary which showed how zealous he was in his puritan duties enforcing strict Sabbatarianism and suppressing disorder.
Those who travelled on Sundays were put in the stocks or the cage, and even a man whose journey was in order to be a godfather was fined.
On Sundays Beake spent his time in the park, observing 'who idly walked there'.
[1] He is memorialised in the naming of Beake Avenue, a major road in the north of Coventry.