Nicholas Adams (died 1584)

1521 – c. 1584), of the Middle Temple, London and Townstal (alias Tunstall), near Dartmouth in Devon, was an English Member of Parliament.

Adams was a Member of Parliament for West Looe in 1547, and Dartmouth in March 1553, October 1553, April 1554 and November 1554.

[2] Adams had his first experience of Parliament in 1547, when he sat for Cornwall.

But in his second session he was marked with the publication of the treatise An Epitome of the title that the kynges Maiestie of Englande hath to the souereigntie of Scotlande, supporting the union of the two kingdoms.

During his second membership "his own position was reinforced by his connection with the two knights for Devon, his brother-in-law John Fulford and Sir Peter Carew".