| 词条 | Thomas Adamson (master gunner) |
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For others named Thomas Adamson, see the Thomas Adamson navigation pageThomas Adamson (d. 1685), Master-Gunner in King Charles II's train of artillery, is noted for his 1680-publication of England's Defence, a Treatise concerning Invasion.[1] LifeBorn in Lancashire and educated at Kirkham Grammar School, his great-uncle Dom Richard Adamson,[2] became Vicar of Bexley[3] after the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Adamson fought at the Battles of Preston and Winwick in 1648, gaining valuable military experience. At the Restoration, he was commissioned in the Artillery Company, serving at the Board of Ordnance, before being promoted to the rank of Captain, then Master-Gunner. As the threat of French invasion continued throughout the seventeenth century, Adamson was tasked with updating the 16th-century treatise by Thomas Digges, Muster Master-General to Queen Elizabeth's forces in the Low Countries, compromised by being leaked to the Earl of Leicester shortly before the Spanish attempted invasion of England in 1588. Adamson based his on this earlier work, editing and updating it with his own additions: he gave an account of ‘such stores of war and other materials as are requisite for the defence of a fort, a train of artillery, and for a magazine belonging to a field army;’ adding also a list: (1) of the ships of war, (2) of the governors of the garrisons of England, (3) of the lords lieutenant and high sheriffs of the counties adjacent to the coasts; and concluding his tract with a summary of the wages paid per month to the officers and seamen in the fleet. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes that Adamson (from a recusant family) feared a French invasion could be supported by English Catholics and that he expressed the view that the people of England should take action against any such invasion, even to the point of deposing governors of garrisons where necessary. Thus, Adamson's work was in some quarters construed as possibly inciting rebellion.[4] See also
Notes1. ^{{cite web | last =Bullen | first =A. H. | title =Adamson, Thomas (fl. 1680), Master Gunner in King Charles II's train of artillery | work = Dictionary of National Biography Vol. I | publisher =Smith, Elder & Co. | year =1885 | url =http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/olddnb.jsp?articleid=146 | accessdate = 2009-11-23 }} {{DNBfirst|wstitle=Adamson, Thomas}} 2. ^[https://www.british-history.ac.uk/n-westmorland-records/vol7/pp153-163 www.british-history.ac.uk] 3. ^[https://www.stmarysbexley.co.uk/ www.stmarysbexley.co.uk] 4. ^{{cite web | last =Porter | first =Stephen | title = Adamson, Thomas (fl. 1680), military writer | work = Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | publisher =Oxford University Press | year =2004 | url =http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/146 | accessdate = 2009-11-23 }} References
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