Adams, WILLIAM, an English navigator, who was born in 1575 at Gillingham, near Chatham, and who from 1600 till his death in 1620 was resident in Japan, where he was 'in such favour with two emperors as never was any Christian in those parts of the world.' See his Letters in vol. i. of Purchas his Pilgrimes; also the Diary of Richard Cocks (Hakluyt Soc. 1883).
Adams, WILLIAM
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 49
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