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Born at Usk , in Monmouthshire , he studied at Oxford , where he obtained his doctorate and became Extraordinarius in Canon Law . He practised in the archiepiscopal court of Canterbury , 1390 - 1397 , and in 1399 accompanied the Archbishop and Bolingbroke 's army on the march to Chester . After Richard II 's surrender Adam was rewarded with the living of Kemsing and Seal , and later with a Prebend in the church of Bangor . However, he forfeited the King's favour by the boldness of his criticisms, and was banished to Rome in 1402 , where in 1404 and later he was successively nominated to the sees of Hereford and St. David's , but was unable to obtain possession of either. He left a Latin Chronicle of English history from 1377 to 1404 , edited by Edward Thompson for the Royal Society of Literature, as "''Chronicon Adæ de Usk''" (London, 1876). |
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