Faestingmen
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
Approved men who were strong-armed. Subsequently the word seems to have been used in the sense of rich, and hence it probably passed into its later and common meaning of pledges or bondsmen, which, by Saxon custom, were bound to answer for each other’s good behavior. Cowell; Du Cange.