# Adam Stable

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{{Short description|14th-century Lord Mayor of London}}
'''Adam Stable''' or '''Adam Staple''' was [Lord Mayor of London](/source/Lord_Mayor_of_London)<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=46797|title = Mayors and Sheriffs of London|publisher= British History Online| accessdate= 2025-10-27}}</ref> who also served as an MP for the [City of London](/source/City_of_London_(Parliament_of_England_constituency)) in 1373. He was a [Mercer](/source/The_Mercers'_Company).

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.{{sfn|Nightingale|1989|p=6-7}}

He was elected by a new electoral system brought in under the anti-Gaunt atmosphere surrounding the [Good Parliament](/source/Good_Parliament) that was seen as favouring the [lesser trades](/source/lesser_trades).  He was deposed in 1377 in the aftermath of [riots against John of Gaunt](/source/riots_against_John_of_Gaunt){{sfn|Prescott|2004}} to placate Gaunt and was replaced by the rich merchant [Nicholas Brembre](/source/Nicholas_Brembre).{{sfn|Round|1886}}

==References==
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==Sources==
* {{cite journal |last1=Nightingale |first1=P. |title=Capitalists, Crafts and Constitutional Change in Late Fourteenth-Century London |journal=Past & Present |date=1989 |volume=124 |pages=3–35 |doi=10.1093/past/124.1.3|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/650891|url-access=subscription}}
* {{cite ODNB|title=Brembre, Sir Nicholas|url=https://www-oxforddnb-com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-3312?rskey=mYGis5&result=1|first=Andrew|last=Prescott|date=23 September 2004}}
* {{cite DNB|wstitle=Brembre, Nicholas|author-link=John Horace Round|first=John Horace |last=Round|volume=6|year=1886}}

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Category:14th-century lord mayors of London
Category:English MPs 1373
Category:Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for the City of London

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