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William Adams

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.

— William Adams art

Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.

— William Adams good

Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.

— William Adams science

Faith is a continuation of reason.

— William Adams reason

So I departed and was free from imprisonment.

— William Adams art

From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had.

— William Adams wit

At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.

— William Adams time

In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.

— William Adams science

So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before.

— William Adams time

If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.

— William Adams death

So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet.

— William Adams time

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