Ebrington
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Ebrington is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, about 2 miles from Chipping Campden. It has narrow lanes and tiny streets of Cotswold stone houses and cottages, many of which are
Church of St Eadburga, Ebrington
John Fortescue (judge)
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Sir John Fortescue, of Ebrington in Gloucestershire, was Chief Justice of the King's Bench and the author of De Laudibus Legum Angliae, first published posthumously circa 1543, an influential treatise
Ebrington
…is owned by the Fortescue family who also had estates in Exmoor. The ancient church of St Eadburga shows many monuments to the family including one to Sir John Fortescue in his robes as Lord Chief Justice. Sir John died in 1476. The church is mainly Perpendicular with some Norman work remaining in the north and south…
Depiction of a Chief Justice of the King's Bench contemporary to Fortescue's term in office
A drawing of Fortescue in anachronistic 17th-century dress with an oversized Great Seal of England, from the Legal Portrait Collection of Harvard Law School Library
Monument with recumbent painted effigy of Sir John Fortescue in the Church of St Eadburga, Ebrington
The title page of Fortescue's De laudibus legum Angliæ (In Commendation of the Laws of England, 1616 edition)