Slowly over time Adam has faded from view. It is hard to say why. The Reformation should of course have made his works irrelevant, but that is the supreme irony. In the event as the English political crisis developed under the Stuarts, Adam's writings would have been of significant value to the reformers of the puritan revolution, promoting the power of religious authority over the secular, something that would become central to the Parliamentarians Pym, Cromwell, Fairfax and their ilk. Yet as Adam faded from view, so the accounts of his life became ever more bizarre and inaccurate. He was regularly confused with the Bishop of Hereford, sometimes Hertford, his downfall has been frequently linked to the wrong town (Nocera in Umbria, a completely unrelated place, rather than the town in Campania near Salerno of the same name) a mistake that has carried through to the latest (2006) edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Biography. A number of the entries in this section illustrate the diversity of contradiction and errors that have crept into the account of his life.