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===[[name::Richard]] [[name::ADAMS]]  [[date of birth::1626;1627|1626/7]]-[[date of death::1698]]===

====Biographical Note====
Born in [[place of birth::Woodchurch, Cheshire]], son of [[family::Charles Adams]], [[occupation::rector]] there.  BA [[education::Brasenose College, Oxford]] 1648, [[occupation::fellow]] 1649, MA 1651; [[occupation::junior bursar]] 1651-53, [[occupation::senior bursar]] 1654-55.  He donated [[monetary value::£6]] towards the cost of a new chapel at [[location::Brasenose]] in 1657.  [[occupation::rector|Rector]] of [[location::St Mildred, Bread Street]], [[location::London]] 1655; ejected 1662, after which he became [[occupation::minister]] to a small nonconformist congregation in [[location::Southwark]].  He was licensed as a Presbyterian at a house in [[location::Cheapside]] belonging to one of his brothers in 1672.  Adams helped to [[editor::edit]] some of the posthumously published works of [[crossreference::Stephen Charnock 1628-1680|Stephen Charnock]] in the 1680s; his own funeral sermon for [[associates::Henry Hurst]] (d.1690) was published posthumously in [[date of publication::1699]].

====Books==== 
His will directed that all his books and papers should be inherited by his elder [[subsequent owner::son]] [[family::John Adams|John]], on the condition that he pay his brother [[family::Peter Adams|Peter]] [[monetary value::£60]] on his coming of age; this suggests a collection valued at [[monetary value::£120]].  In 1676, he [[bequest::gave]] 344 books and a portable writing desk to [[beneficiary::Woodchurch School]] (founded 1655), with a further 54 books in 1681. 

====Characteristic Markings==== 
None of Adams’s books have been identified.

====Sources====
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*Gastrell, F. ''Notitia Cestriensis'' (Chetham Soc 8), 1845, 181.
*Matthews, A. G. ''Calamy revised''.  Oxford, 1934.
*Wright, Stephen. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/126 "Adams, Richard (1626/7–1698), clergyman and ejected minister."] ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''.
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