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Legacy 1397 to the present day
When Adam died he was a renowned churchman, the most senior Englishman in the church hierarchy since Nicholas Breakspeare had been made pope. His writings were copied for at least a century after his death. Historians of the Church for the next three hundred years regarded him as an important player within the history of the Church as well as the history of England.
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, as we shall see!
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