Gw mau tau R. Hildreth's Japan (1855) dari William Adams (pelaut)

J. Harris's Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca (1764), i. 856

Voyage of John Saris, editor: Sir Ernest M. Satow  (Hakluyt Society, 1900)

Asiatic Society of Japan Transactions, xxvi. (sec. 1898) pp. I and 194, empat pucuk surat Adams lainnya yang belum pernah diterbitkan hingga kini;

Collection of State Papers; East Indies, China and Japan. The MS. of his logs written during his voyages to Siam and China di Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan; Giles Milton (UK 2002: ISBN 0-340-79468-2)

William Adams and Early English Enterprise in Japan, by Anthony Farrington and Derek Massarella

Adams the Pilot: The Life and Times of Captain William Adams: 1564-1620, oleh William Corr, Curzon Press,1995 ISBN 1-873410-44-1

The English Factory in Japan 1613-1623, editor: Anthony Farrington, British Library, 1991. (berisi semua surat-surat William Adams yang ada termasuk surat wasiat darinya.)

A World Elsewhere. Europe’s Encounter with Japan in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, oleh Derek Massarella, Yale University Press, 1990.

Recollections of Japan, Hendrik Doeff, ISBN 1-55395-849-7

The Needle-Watcher: The Will Adams Story, British Samurai oleh Richard Blaker

Servant of the Shogun by Richard Tames. Paul Norbury Publications Tenterden Kent England.ISBN 0-904404-39-0.

Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan, oleh Giles Milton; ISBN 978-0-14-200378-7; Desember 2003.