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John Fortescue (judge)

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Sir John Fortescue (1394 – December 1479) of Ebrington in Gloucestershire, was Chief Justice of the King's Bench and was the author of De Laudibus Legum Angliae (Commendation of the Laws of England), first published posthumously circa 1543), an influential treatise on English law. In the course of Henry VI's reign, Fortescue was appointed one of the governors of Lincoln's Inn three times and served as a Member of Parliament from 1421 to 1437. He became one of the King's Serjeants during the Easter term of 1441, and subsequently served as Chief Justice of the King's Bench from 25 January 1442 to Easter term 1460. During the Wars of the Roses, Henry VI was deposed in 1461 by Edward of York, who ascended the throne as Edward IV. Henry and his queen, Margaret of Anjou, later fled to Scotland. Fortescue remained loyal to Henry, and as a result was attainted of treason. He is believed to have been given the nominal title of Chancellor of England during Henry's exile. He accompanied Queen Margaret and her court while they remained on the Continent between 1463 and 1471, and wrote De Laudibus Legum Angliae for the instruction of young Prince Edward. After the defeat of the House of Lancaster, he submitted to Edward IV who reversed his attainder in October 1471. [1]

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Adrian Fortescue (martyr)

Sir Adrian Fortescue (1476 – 9 July 1539) was a courtier at the court of King Henry VIII of England who was executed in 1539 and later beatified as a Roman Catholic martyr.

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Andrew Amos (lawyer)

Andrew Amos (1791 – 18 April 1860) was a British lawyer and professor of law.

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Battle of Tewkesbury

The Battle of Tewkesbury, which took place on 4 May 1471, was one of the decisive battles of the Wars of the Roses.

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Bevil Grenville

Sir Bevil Grenville (23 March 1594/55 July 1643), lord of the manors of Bideford in Devon and of Stowe in the parish of Kilkhampton, Cornwall, was a Royalist commander in the Civil War.

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Blackstone's formulation

In criminal law, Blackstone's formulation (also known as Blackstone's ratio or the Blackstone ratio) is the principle that: "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer",...as expressed by the English jurist William Blackstone in his seminal work, Commentaries on the Laws of England, published in the 1760s.

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Body politic

The body politic is a medieval metaphor that likens a nation to a corporation which had serious historical repercussions throughout recent history and therefore giving the Crown: "As a legal entity today the Crown as executive is regarded as a corporation sole or aggregate", a corporate entity.

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Bremridge

Bremridge is a historic estate within the former hundred of South Molton in Devon, England.

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Charles Plummer

Charles Plummer (1851 – 1927) was an English historian, best known for editing Sir John Fortescue's The Governance of England, and for coining the term 'bastard feudalism'.

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Earl Fortescue

Earl Fortescue is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain that was created in 1789 for Hugh Fortescue, 3rd Baron Fortescue (1753–1841), a Member of Parliament for Beaumaris and Lord-Lieutenant of Devon.

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Ebrington

Ebrington is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, about from Chipping Campden.

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Faithful Fortescue

Sir Faithful Fortescue (1585–1666), of Dromiskin in County Louth, Ireland, was Governor of Carrickfergus in Ireland, long the chief seat and garrison of the English in Ulster and was a royalist commander during the English Civil War.

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Filleigh

Filleigh is a small village, civil parish and former manor in North Devon, on the southern edge of Exmoor, 3 1/2 miles west of South Molton.

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Fortescue baronets

There have been three baronetcies created for persons with the surname Fortescue, one in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and two in the Baronetage of England.

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Governance

Governance is all of the processes of governing, whether undertaken by a government, a market or a network, over a social system (family, tribe, formal or informal organization, a territory or across territories) and whether through the laws, norms, power or language of an organized society.

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Great Torrington

Great Torrington (often abbreviated to Torrington, though the villages of Little Torrington and Black Torrington are situated in the same region) is a small market town in the north of Devon, England.

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Henry Fortescue (Lord Chief Justice)

Sir Henry Fortescue (fl. 1426), was Lord Chief Justice of Ireland.

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Inns of Chancery

The Inns of Chancery or Hospida Cancellarie were a group of buildings and legal institutions in London initially attached to the Inns of Court and used as offices for the clerks of chancery, from which they drew their name.

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J. Fortescue

Honorable J. Fortescue (alleged to have been born in 1868) was a nonexistent American surgeon and founder of the International Board of Hygiene that the League of Nations recognised in 1926.

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John and William Merfold

John and William Merfold were yeomen brothers in Sussex, England, in the mid 15th-century.

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John Denzel

John Denzel (died 1535) held large estates in Cornwall and became serjeant-at-law and Attorney-General to the Queen Consort, Elizabeth of York.

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John Fortescue

John Fortescue may refer to.

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John Fortescue (Captain of Meaux)

John Fortescue (died after 1432), of ShephamPole, Sir William (died 1635),, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, pp.

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John Fortescue Aland, 1st Baron Fortescue of Credan

John Fortescue Aland, 1st Baron Fortescue of Credan (7 March 1670 – 19 December 1746) was an English lawyer, judge and politician.

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John Glanvill

John Glanvill (1664?–1735) was an English barrister, known as a poet and translator.

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John Hody

Sir John Hody (died 1441) of Stowell in Somerset and of Pilsdon in Dorset, was Chief Justice of the King’s Bench.

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John Markham

Sir John Markham (died 1479) was an English judge and Chief Justice of the King's Bench.

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John Selden

John Selden (16 December 1584 – 30 November 1654) was an English jurist, a scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution and scholar of Jewish law.

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John Topham

John Topham (1746–1803) was an English official, librarian and antiquary.

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John Wenlock, 1st Baron Wenlock

John Wenlock, 1st Baron Wenlock KG (c.1400-04 - 1471) was an English diplomat, soldier, courtier and politician.

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Lincoln's Inn

The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn is one of the four Inns of Court in London to which barristers of England and Wales belong and where they are called to the Bar.

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List of alumni of Exeter College, Oxford

Exeter College, Oxford is one of the colleges of the University of Oxford.

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List of members of Lincoln's Inn

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List of non-fiction writers

The term non-fiction writer covers vast numbers of fields and writers.

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List of Worthies of Devon

This is a list of persons considered by John Prince (1643–1723) sufficiently notable to warrant the inclusion of their biography in his work The Worthies of Devon.

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Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales

The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales is the head of the judiciary and President of the Courts of England and Wales.

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Manor of Buckland Filleigh

The manor of Buckland Filleigh was a manor in the parish of Buckland Filleigh in North Devon, England.

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Matthew Tindal

Matthew Tindal (1657 – 16 August 1733) was an eminent English deist author.

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Natural law

Natural law (ius naturale, lex naturalis) is a philosophy asserting that certain rights are inherent by virtue of human nature, endowed by nature—traditionally by God or a transcendent source—and that these can be understood universally through human reason.

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Nicholas Conyngham Tindal

Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal, PC (12 December 1776 – 6 July 1846) was a celebrated English lawyer who successfully defended the then Queen of the United Kingdom, Caroline of Brunswick, at her trial for adultery in 1820.

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Outer Temple

The Outer Temple is a building next to the Temple in London, just outside the City of London.

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Quadripartitus

The title Quadripartitus refers to an extensive legal collection compiled during the reign of Henry I, king of England (1100–1135).

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Richard Fortescue

Richard Fortescue (c. 1517–1570) of Filleigh, North Devon was an English Member of Parliament and prominent land-owner and member of the Devonshire gentry, ancestor to the Earls Fortescue.

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Serjeant-at-law

A Serjeant-at-Law (SL), commonly known simply as a Serjeant, was a member of an order of barristers at the English bar.

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Subpoena ad testificandum

A subpoena ad testificandum is a court summons to appear and give oral testimony for use at a hearing or trial.

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Tabula rasa

Tabula rasa refers to the epistemological idea that individuals are born without built-in mental content and that therefore all knowledge comes from experience or perception.

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Tapeley

Tapeley is an historic estate in the parish of Westleigh in North Devon, England.

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Tavistock (UK Parliament constituency)

Tavistock was the name of a parliamentary constituency in Devon between 1330 and 1974.

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Thomas Billing

Sir Thomas Billing (died 1481) was an English judge and Chief Justice of the King’s Bench.

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Thomas de Courtenay, 5th/13th Earl of Devon

Thomas de Courtenay, 5th/13th Earl of Devon (3 May 1414 – 3 February 1458) was an English nobleman who was involved in the Wars of the Roses.

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Thomas Fortescue (1683–1769)

Thomas Fortescue (1683 – 23 January 1769) was an Irish Member of Parliament.

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Thomas Wight

Thomas Wight (died ca. 1608) was a bookseller, publisher and draper in London.

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Tyndall

Tyndall (the original spelling, also Tyndale, "Tindol",Tyndal, Tindall, Tindal, Tindale, Tindle, Tindell, Tindill, and Tindel) is the name of an English family taken from the land they held as tenants in chief of the Kings of England and Scotland in the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries: Tynedale, or the valley of the Tyne, in Northumberland.

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Weare Giffard

Weare Giffard is a small village, civil parish and former manor in the Torridge district, in north Devon.

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Whympston

Whympston (anciently Wimpstone, Wymondston, Wimston, Wymston, etc), in the parish of Modbury in Devon, England, is a historic manor.

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William Blackstone

Sir William Blackstone (10 July 1723 – 14 February 1780) was an English jurist, judge and Tory politician of the eighteenth century.

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William Fortescue (judge)

Sir William Fortescue (1687 – 15 December 1749) of Buckland Filleigh, Devon, was a British judge and Master of the Rolls 1741–1749.

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Woodleigh, Devon

Woodleigh is a village, parish and former manor located in the South Hams region of the county of Devon, England.

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1540s in England

Events from the 1540s in England.

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1545 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1545.

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15th century in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in the 15th century.

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16th century in literature

This article presents lists of literary events and publications in the 16th century.

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1714 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1714.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fortescue_(judge)

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