Hastingues may have been given a grant of murage dated 12/11/1321.
This was in the form of:-
This is a grant which may have been used for walls but could have been used for other civic improvements.
Wording
12 November 1321. Westminster .
Grant to the bayle, jurats and good men of the new bastide of Hastingues , that they may take from persons and property passing the town, excepting nobles or ecclesiastics and their goods, a toll or pavage (barra seu pavagium) by the hands of those deputed to collect it for the term of ten years for the building of the walls, gates and roads of the new bastide, provided that they must choose suitable builders and finish the work within that period. The request of the bayle, jurats and good men has been exhibited before the king and his council, and they have requested that, since their bastide is situated on the duchy’s frontiers among enemies and criminals, and they have been put to great costs in the construction of the same, that the king will grant them a toll or pavage for ten years in aid of this work, just as was previously granted to them by a former seneschal of Gascony.
By K.
12 November 1321. Westminster .
Order to the seneschal of Gascony or his lieutenant to permit the bayle, jurats and good people of the king's bastide of Hastingues to collect the toll (barra) and pavage from persons and goods passing the bastide, nobles and ecclesiastics and their possessions excepted, according to the tenor of the king's letters, and they are not to permit others to impede them from collecting the same. The king granted the toll and pavage for the term of ten years on persons and goods passing through their town, with exceptions in aid of enclosing the town with walls, and also for the building and rebuilding of bridges and roads entering and leaving the place, by his letters patent, as was accustomed to be taken by a grant of the then seneschal of Gascony
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{1321}
Petitioners: Jurats and inhabitants of the bastide of Hastingues.
Addressees: King.
Places mentioned: Hastingues, {Gascony, France}; Guyenne, {France}; Navarre; Bearn; Agarruys {unidentified}; Arthous, {Gascony, France}.
Other people mentioned: John de Hastinges (Hastings), Seneschal of the Duchy of Guyenne (Seneschal of Gascony); {Edward I}, King of England; the Basques; Lord of Albret; Lord of Gramont; Raymond (Ramon) Duraund (Durant), Seneschal of the Landes; Abbot of Arthous.
Nature of request: The jurats and inhabitants of the bastide of Hastingues make six requests:
1) They state that their bastide was founded by John de Hastinges (Hastings), Seneschal of the Duchy of Guyenne in the march of the Duchy, surrounded by the king's enemies, the people of Navarre and of Bearn, the Basques, and the people of the Lord of Albret and Lord of Gramont, and that because of this he promised to enclose the town with stone walls and to build a bridge there, and the late king granted a toll (peage) for ten years to accomplish this. Because of the war and other disturbances, these walls and bridge are now in need of repair, but they are too poor to do this. They request a new toll, half to go to the repair of the walls and bridge, and half to the king's profit.
2) They ask that the Seneschal of Gascony and Seneschal of the Landes might be ordered to fortify the place called Agarruys, which is also on the frontier, which will be to the king's honour and profit.
3) They request the right to bear arms at all times in the Duchy.
4) They ask that the Seneschal of Gascony and Seneschal of the Landes might be ordered to have their fair and market held as in the privileges granted by the king's father.
5) They ask that the Seneschal of Gascony and Seneschal of the Landes might ensure that appeals that arise in their area of jurisdiction might be heard in their town, as is accustomed.
6) They state that at the founding of their bastide, the Abbot of Arthous promised to give them various lands which he has withheld, so that many of the people who have settled the bastide are without lands. They ask the king to order the abbot to hand over these lands.
Endorsement: To the first: the Seneschal of Gascony is to be ordered by the king's writ to examine the strength of and the faults in the enclosure of the town, and to ordain for the security of the town and of its goods people by granted toll or in some other manner as seems best to him. To the second: the Seneschal is to be ordered to examine the place and if he finds that this is not to the harm of the king or of anyone else, he is to fortify it. To the third: this cannot be done. To the fourth: the Seneschal is to be ordered to examine their privileges, and, if they have not misused them, he is to allow them to use them according to the form of the said grant. To the fifth: the Seneschal is to be ordered to inform himself as to how they have used this, and as to the custom the y have there and elsewhere; and if this can be done without doing wrong to the parties, the appeals are to be held as is requested. To the sixth: the Seneschal is to be ordered to inform himself concerning the agreements and to distrain the party in a reasonable fashion to keep the agreement, if there is no other reason why this should not be done.
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{1332}
Petitioners: Jurats and inhabitants of Hastingues.
Addressees: King and council.
Places mentioned: Gascony, {France}; Bordeaux, {Guyenne, France}; Hastingues, {Guyenne, France}.
Other people mentioned: Constable of Bordeaux; Seneschal of Gascony.
Nature of request: The jurats and inhabitants of the bastide of Hastingues in the march of the duchy of Guyenne request that the king confirm the letters patent and ordinance sealed by the court of Gascony and constable of Bordeaux, which states that the seneschal of Gascony and constable of Bordeaux by warrant of the council of Gascony were permitted to take tax from merchandises passing through the said march as they did during Edward II's reign, which tax for the next ten years was to go towards the walls, stones and ditches of the said bastide, and after that two parts of the said tax to go to (the good men and) your heirs and the third part to maintaining the said enclosure, the bridges and king's highways, and that the said sworn men and inhabitants should be agreed and obliged to do this.
1) Endorsement: Let the letters be examined.
2) The seneschal and constable should establish if this tax was made to the king as his inheritance before the construction of the bastide wherefore it should be granted for a suitable time.
Granted by Edward II. (Regnal year 15). Granted at Westminster. Granted by By K..
Details of the petition which resulted in this grant can be seen
at this link. 
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Malcolm Vale, 1990, The Angevin Legacy and the Hundred Years War, 1250-1340 (Oxford) p. 118, 157
Trabut-Cussac, J.P., 1954, 'Bastides ou forteresses? Les bastides de l'Aquitaine anglaise et les intentions de leurs fondateurs' Le moyen age Vol. 60 p. 81-135
Comments
A rare permission to collect tolls on goods passing through the town. Although for both defences and roads unusually called pavage perhaps to emphasis the benefit of the toll for this through trade. Presumably that through trade were goods loaded and unloaded from the River Adour and traded to/from the south.
Record created by Philip Davis. This record created 16/04/2009. Last updated on 30/01/2013. First published online 5/01/2013.
