Adam Stable
Adam Stable or Adam Staple was Lord Mayor of London[1] who also served as an MP for the City of London in 1373. He was a Mercer.
He had been convicted in the 1360s for threatening a jury and which may have meant that he was involved in an opposition faction agitating against the Crown.[2]
He was elected by a new electoral system brought in under the anti-Gaunt atmosphere surrounding the Good Parliament that was seen as favouring the lesser trades. He was deposed in 1377 in the aftermath of riots against John of Gaunt[3] to placate Gaunt and was replaced by the rich merchant Nicholas Brembre.[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Mayors and Sheriffs of London". British History Online. Retrieved 2025-10-27.
- ↑ Nightingale 1989, p. 6-7.
- ↑ Prescott 2004.
- ↑ Round 1886.
Sources
[edit]- Nightingale, P. (1989). "Capitalists, Crafts and Constitutional Change in Late Fourteenth-Century London". Past & Present. 124: 3–35. doi:10.1093/past/124.1.3.
- Prescott, Andrew (23 September 2004). "Brembre, Sir Nicholas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
- Round, John Horace (1886). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 6. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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