Jurats and inhabitants of Hastingues. King and council. The jurats and inhabitants...

Petitioners

Jurats and inhabitants of Hastingues.

Addressees

King and council.

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)

Nature of 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.

Places mentioned

Gascony, [France]

Bordeaux, [Guyenne, France]

Hastingues, [Guyenne, France].

People mentioned

Constable of Bordeaux

Seneschal of Gascony.

For a petition from the jurats of Hastingues see SC 8/290/14482

For another petition from the inhabitants of Hastingues see SC 8/276/13768

For the outcome of this petition see m.4 of C 61/44