Stephen Dabindone (Abingdon), merchant and citizen of London. Dabindone (Abingdon)...

Petitioners

Stephen Dabindone (Abingdon), merchant and citizen of London.

Name(s)

Dabindone (Abingdon), Stephen

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

merchant

Nature of request

Stephen Dabindone states that John de Drokenesford, Keeper of the Wardrobe and Ralph Destok, Clerk of the Wardrobe, charged him with buying cloth for the king, the queen and their family; which he did at Mechelen and Antwerp in Brabant, and had them loaded onto carts by Geoffrey de la Penne, his valet, to take to Wissant. But passing through Lens in Artois, this cloth and other goods of Stephen's were seized into the hand of the King of France, under the claim that Stephen had bought them from his enemies in Flanders. Stephen sued this matter, and eventually, after approaching King Edward I twice at Dunfermline, obtained letters patent from the King of France for compensation; but these do not cover all his losses, or his expenses and damages, he has not been able to have payment for even this sum, and now payment has been absolutely refused him. He asks that he might be able to take the sum contained in the King of France's letters from French merchants in this country, and that his expenses and losses be allowed to him.

Nature of endorsement

[On dorse of SC 8/10/484][He is to show in Chancery the letters which he has from the King of France, and, when they have been examined, if it is found that the king of France owes him such a sum, and the terms of payment are passed, then a writ of Chancery is to be issued to seize up to the same sum from the goods of the merchants of the kingdom of France, until etc.]

Places mentioned

Brabant

Anvers (Antwerp), [Belgium]

Malines (Mechelen), [Belgium]

Whitsand (Wissant), [Artois, France]

Lens, [Artois, France]

Artois, [France]

Flanders

Dunfermline [Fife, Scotland].

People mentioned

John de Drokenesford (Droxford), Keeper of the Wardrobe

Ralph Destok, Clerk of the Wardrobe

[Edward I], king of England

[Margaret of France], Queen of England

Geoffrey de la Penne, valet of Stephen Dabindone

[Philip IV] King of France

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/14/687

The letters patent from the men of Mechelen attesting that the cloth was bought there, originally attached to this petition, with its endorsement written on them, are SC 8/10/484

For another petition by the same petitioner and another, see SC 8/170/8458A

For transcript, see p.1 of PRO 31/7/93

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), pp.143-144 (letter to the king of France, asking him to make restitution to Stephen for the cloth and other goods)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.475b-476a, no.93 (full edition of original petition)