Robert called le Convers, goldsmith of London. Convers Robert King and council. goldsmith...

Petitioners

Robert called le Convers, goldsmith of London.

Name(s)

Convers, Robert

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

goldsmith

Nature of request

Robert called le Convers states that he is owed £54 11s. 4d. for sixteen gilded silver cups, taken from him for the queen at the feast of John the Baptist in the thirtieth year of the king's reign, by John de Droxford, John de Godley and John de Sandale. He has a bill for this, sealed with their seals, and has often gone to them for payment, but has been told to go to the treasurer, who has told him to deliver a bill to John de Chaam and his companions, receivers of bills - and thus is he sent from place to place for his money. He requests payment.

Nature of endorsement

Among the king's debts.John de Droxford, John de Godley and John de Sandale are to be called before the council, etc.Those from whom the cups, and other silver vessels, were taken are to have a writ to the clerk of Exchange, that satisfaction is to be made to them from the first issues of the Exchange after Christmas, if not before, for £440, as John of Droxford and John of Sandale attest, and John of Droxford is to be charged with this money in his account, and payment is to be made by the view and assignment of John of Droxford.

Places mentioned

London.

People mentioned

Margaret [of France], Queen of England

John de Drokenisford (Droxford)

John de Godele (Godley)

John de Sandale (Sandal)

John de Chaam.

For transcript, see p.49 of PRO 31/7/93

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.296 (order for le Convers to be satisfied for the sixteen cups, in accordance with the endorsement of the petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.474b, no.84 (full edition of original petition)
• The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), 1305, autumn parliament, appendix, evidence of business done at this parliament from chancery enrolments and elsewhere, no.18 (summary of references)