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
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)
The Anglican Church of St Eadburga at Ebrington in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England, was built in the 13th century. It is a grade I listed building.
