Adam appears as the presumed compiler of the Eynsham cartulary drawn up at that point for the bishop's use in this argument.
This experience led Adam to write Magna Vita Sancti Hugonis or The Life of St Hugh of Lincoln.
This work became Adam's claim to fame, and is one of the more trustworthy and fullest of the hagiographies existing from the Middle Ages.
[1] After his deposition from office, Adam retired to Little Rollright in Oxfordshire, and in 1233 he was allowed an exemption from having to do suit for the manor he was residing on.
[3] The monastic historian David Knowles calls the work a "clear and living picture of the great bishop".