Sir John Fortescue (c. 1394 – c. 1480) was the Chief Justice of the King’s Bench of England and the author of De Laudibus Legum Angliæ (Commendation of the Laws of England first published posthumously around 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.
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