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John Fortescue

John Fortescue of Salden (1531/1533–1607), third Chancellor of the Exchequer of England


Nicholas Conyngham Tindal

Sir John Fortescue, was a great medieval jurist and Lord Chancellor of Henry VI of England; Sir William Yelverton was an earlier Lord Chief Justice of England; Sir Roger Manwood was an Elizabethan Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer; and his nephew, John Manwood, Sir Nicholas's great great great grandfather, was the author of 'the Forest Laws'.


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Weare Giffard

"In memory of Hugh Fortescue, Esquire, and of Elizabeth his wife, daughter of John Chichester Esquire and also of John Fortescue, the son of them, Esquire, and of Mary his wife, daughter of Humphrey Speccot of Thornbury, Esquire.