Robert Adams was a 16th century English

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 architect

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, engraver and surveyor

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 of buildings to Queen Elizabeth

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.

None of Robert Adams' architectural works are known to have survived, but some of his plans and engravings are still extant, such as a large 1588 plan of Middleburgh

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 and, from the same year, a small parchment roll, drawn with pen, entitled "Thamesis Descriptio", which shows lines drawn across the River Thames

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 and the various ranges of guns at different points from Tilbury Fort

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 to London

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. Adams also drew and engraved representations of the Spanish Armada

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's activities on the British coasts, which were published by Augustine Ryther

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 in 1589.

Robert Adams died in his 55th year and was buried in the church at Greenwich

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, where the following inscription was placed to his memory:

"Egregio viro Roberto Adams, operum regiorum supervisori, architecturae peritissimo. Ob. 1595. Simon Basil

Simon Basil

Simon Basil was a surveyor, perhaps an architect, who held the post of Surveyor of the King's Works, 1606-15.His first appearance, in 1590, was in drawing a plan of Ostend, a military objective at the time, for the previous Surveyor, Robert Adams...

, operationum regiarum contrarotulator, hoc posuit monumentum 1601."

To the distinguished Robert Adams, supervisor of the royal works, most skilled at architecture. Died 1595. Simon Basil, his successor at the royal works, put up this monument here 1601.