Samuel Jeake

Samuel Jeake (1623–1690), dubbed the Elder to distinguish him from his son, was an English merchant, nonconformist, antiquary and astrologer from Rye, East Sussex, England.

[1] In 1640 Samuel severed his connection with the Church of England, and was appointed minister of a conventicle, apparently Baptist.

Brought to London, he remained there till 1687, when the toleration which James II of England extended to the dissenters enabled him to return to Rye.

Jeake also wrote on mathematics, and made the first recorded use of the terms "addend",[2] "cosecant[broken anchor]",[3] and "proper fraction".

[6] Jeake was a nonconformist, but disliked presbyterians as much as the established church; and he spoke contemptuously of the Independents as "Babell, from the differences that have happened among the master-builders".

While town-clerk, he bought a collection of statutes referring to the Cinque ports, which belonged to the borough of Rye.

A translation of Charles II of England's charter to the Cinque ports, published for the mayor and jurats of Hastings (1682), is also attributed to Jeake.