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See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
ADAMS, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (d. 162o) , See also:English navigator, was See also:born at See also:Gillingham, near See also:Chatham, See also:England. When twelve years old he was apprenticed to the seafaring See also:life, afterwards entering the See also:British See also:navy, and later serving the See also:company of See also:Barbary merchants for a number of years as See also:master and See also:pilot. Attracted by the Dutch See also:trade with See also:India, he shipped as pilot See also:major with a little See also:fleet of five See also:ships despatched from the Texel in 1598 by a company of See also:Rotterdam merchants. The vessels, boats ranging from 75 to 250 tons and crowded with men, were driven to the See also:coast of See also:Guinea, where the adventurers attacked the See also:island of Annabon for supplies, and finally reached the straits of See also:Magellan. Scattered by stress of See also:weather the following See also:spring the " Charity," with Adams on' See also:board, and the "See also:Hope," met at length off the coast of See also:Chile, where the captains of both vessels lost their lives in an encounter with the See also:Indians. In fear of the Spaniards, the remaining crews determined to See also:sail across the Pacific. On this voyage the " Hope " was lost, but in See also:April 1600 the " Charity," with a See also:- CREW (sometimes explained as a sea term of Scandinavian origin, cf. O. Icel. kris, a swarm or crowd, but now regarded as a shortened form of accrue, accrewe, used in the 16th century in the sense of a reinforcement, O. Fr. acreue, from accrofire, to grow,
- CREW, NATHANIEL CREW, 3RD BARON (1633–1721)
crew of sick and dying men, was brought to See also:anchor off the island of Kiushiu, See also:Japan. Adams was summoned to See also:Osaka and there examined by Iyeyasu, the See also:guardian of the See also:young son of Taiko Sama, the ruler, who had just died. His knowledge of ships and See also:shipbuilding, and his nautical smattering of See also:mathematics, raised him in the estimation of the See also:shogun, and he was subsequently presented with an See also:estate at Hemi near See also:Yokosuka; but was refused permission to return to England. In 1611 See also:news came to him of an English See also:settlement in See also:Bantam, and he wrote asking for help. In 1613 See also:Captain See also:John Saris arrived at See also:Hirado in the See also:ship " Clove " with the See also:object of establishing a trading factory for the See also:East India Company, and after obtaining the necessary concessions from the shogun, Adams postponed his voyage See also:home (permission for which had now been given him) in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to take a leading See also:part, under See also:Richard Cocks, in the organization of this new English settlement.
He had already married a See also:Japanese woman, by whom he had a See also:family, and the latter part of his life was spent in the service of the English trading company, for whom he undertook a number of voyages to See also:Siam in 1616, and See also:Cochin See also:China in 1617 and 1618. He died on the 16th of May 162o, some three years before the See also:dissolution of the English factory. His Japanese See also:title was Anjin Sama, and his memory was preserved in the naming of a See also:street in Yedo, Anjin Cho (Pilot Street), and by an See also:annual celebration on See also:June 15 in his See also:honour.
See England's Earliest Intercourse with Japan, by C. W. Hillary (1905) ; Letters written by the English Residents in Japan, ed. by N. Murakami (1900, containing Adams's Letters reprinted from Memorials of the See also:Empire of Japan, ed. by T. Rundall, See also:Hakluyt Society, 185o); See also:Diary of Richard Cocks, with See also:preface by N. Murakami (1899, reprinted from the Hakluyt Society ed. 1883); R. See also:Hildreth's Japan (1855); J. See also:Harris's Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca (1764), i.
856; Voyage of John Saris, ed. by See also:Sir E. M. Satow (Hakluyt Society, 1900) ; See also:Asiatic Society of Japan Trans-actions, See also:xxvi. (sec. 1898) pp. r and 194, where four more hitherto unpublished letters of Adams are given; Collection of See also:State Papers; East Indies, China and Japan. The MS. of his logs written during his voyages to Siam and China is in the Bodleian Library at See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford.
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