The epitaph on her tomb in Sprowston, Norfolk, is "uxor dulcissima." Children were:
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Margaret Adams.14146. Sir Thomas Adams , Bart.
(336) was born in 1586 in Wem, Shropshire,
England. He died in 1668 in London, England. Thomas Adams was born in the town
of Wem in Shropshire. He was educated at Cambridge and became a draper in London,
where he prospered greatly. By 1639 he was Sheriff of London, Master of the Draper's
Company, and an alderman. He was returned as a member of Parliament at this time
but did not take his seat.
In 1645 he was elected Lord Mayor of London. During his year in office, his house
was searched by Parliamentary forces, who were looking for King Charles I. Adams
was always a staunch royalist and member of the Church of England. After his
year as Lord Mayor he was imprisoned in the Tower for his royalist sympathies
and banned from all public office. Nonetheless he was elected to Parliament from
London in both 1654 and 1656.
In 1660 he was named a deputy from London to The Hague to attend upon King Charles
II upon the notification of his restoration. Along with all the other deputies
he was knighted by the King, and on June 13th, 1660, he was made a baronet. That
title went extinct in the fifth generation, near the end of the 18th century.
Adams founded the free school of Wem and endowed it with the house in which he
had been born. He founded the Arabic lecture at Cambridge and endowed it with
an income of 40 pounds a year in perpetuity. He also paid to have the Bible translated
into Persian, in hopes of making converts in that country.
Towards the end of his life he was afflicted with a bladder stone. Upon his death
it was removed and found to weigh no less than twenty-five ounces. So remarkable
was it considered that it was shown around fashionable London and is even mentioned
in Pepys's diary.
There is an article on him in the Dictionary of National Biography.
14147. Ann Mapted
(114) was born about 1590. She died in 1642. Ann Mapted died of fright
during the threatened royalist attack on London, which never materialized.
The epitaph on her tomb in Sprowston, Norfolk, is "uxor dulcissima."
Children were:
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Margaret Adams.
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