Adam Stable

Adam Stable or Adam Staple was Lord Mayor of London 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.

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 to placate Gaunt and was replaced by the rich merchant Nicholas Brembre.