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John Fortescue (judge)
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Sir John Fortescue, of Ebrington in Gloucestershire, was Chief Justice of the King's Bench and was the author of De Laudibus Legum Angliae, 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.
A portrait of Fortescue by William Faithorne published in 1663 inscribed "Sr John Fortescu Kt Lord Cheife Justice & Lord Chancellor of England vnder K
A drawing of Fortescue in anachronistic 17th-century dress with an oversized Great Seal of England, from the Legal Portrait Collection of Harvard Law
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
The title page of Fortescue's De laudibus legum Angliæ (In Commendation of the Laws of England, 1616 edition)
The title page of Fortescue's De laudibus legum Angliæ (In Commendation of the Laws of England, 1616 edition)
The title page of the first English translation of Fortescue's De laudibus legum Angliæ, entitled A Learned Commendation of the Politique Lawes of Eng
The title page of the first English translation of Fortescue's De laudibus legum Angliæ, entitled A Learned Commendation of the Politique Lawes of England (1567)
Filleigh
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Filleigh is a small village, civil parish and former manor in North Devon, on the southern edge of Exmoor, 3.5 miles (5.6 km) west of South Molton. The village centre's street was, until the 1980s opening of the North Devon Link Road, the main highway between the North Devon administrative centre of Barnstaple and South Molton, leading westwards to Taunton. Much of the village's land is contained within grade I listed park and garden, Castle Hill, which straddles both sides of the Link Road providing a glimpse of some of it.
St Paul's Church, Filleigh, viewed from south
St Paul's Church, Filleigh, viewed from south
Arms of Denzell: Sable, a mullet in chief and a crescent in base argent. These arms survive sculpted in stone on the monument to Sir Richard de Pomero
Arms of Denzell: Sable, a mullet in chief and a crescent in base argent. These arms survive sculpted in stone on the monument to Sir Richard de Pomeroy (1442–1496), in Berry Pomeroy Church
Mural monument to Lucy Fortescue (died 1767), 2nd wife and widow of Hugh Fortescue (died 1719), father by his 1st wife Bridget Boscawen of Hugh Fortes
Mural monument to Lucy Fortescue (died 1767), 2nd wife and widow of Hugh Fortescue (died 1719), father by his 1st wife Bridget Boscawen of Hugh Fortescue, 1st Baron Fortescue and 1st Earl Clinton (1696–1751), and by his 2nd wife, the subject of the monument, of Matthew Fortescue, 2nd Baron Fortescue (1719–1785), father of Hugh Fortescue, 1st Earl Fortescue (1753–1841)
Castle Hill, Filleigh, south facade
Castle Hill, Filleigh, south facade