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In the mean time he was attainted of high-treafon by Ed¬ 
ward’s parliament in 1461, and another perfon was ap¬ 
pointed ckief-judice in his dead. He was never acknow¬ 
ledged as chancellor by that party, nor ever exercifed the 
office in England. In 1463 he accompanied queen Mar¬ 
garet, prince Edward, and the principal adherents ot the 
houfe of Lancader, in their flight to Flanders; and palled 
manv years upon the continent in a date of exile. In 
this Veclufion he compofed his celebrated work, De Lau- 
dibus Legum Anglia, addreffed to the prince Edward, fon 
of Hepry VI. with the patriotic puipofe of giving him 
juft notions of the laws and conditution of his country, 
and an attachment to them, diould he ever arrive at the 
crown. He returned to England, with the queen and the 
prince, on the news of the defeftion of the earl of War¬ 
wick from king Edward, and was taken ptifoner after the 
battle of Tewkfbury in 1471, which totally ruined the 
hopes of the houfe of Lancader. Edward gave him his 
rcleafe and pardon, which he merited by compoling a re¬ 
tractation of a paper he had written againd the title of the 
houfe of York. Candour may fuppofe that realoning, 
and not the fuccefs of arms, had eftedted this change in 
his opinion. What was of more importance, he retained 
his former fentiments concerning the conditution, and drew 
up a work inEnglidi on The Difference between an Abfo¬ 
lute and Limited Monarchy, as it more particularly regards 
the Englilh Conditution. He wrote fome other ueatifes 
which have remained in MS. He did not again enter 
into public life, but paffed the refidue of his days in 
retirement. He is laid to have attained nearly his nine, 
tieth year, but the time of his death is not afcertained. 
He was interred in the parilh church of Ebburton or 
Ebrighton in Gloucederffiire, of which place he poffeffed 
the manor. The work of fir John Fortel'cue, De Laudi- 
bus Legum Anglia, is written in Latin, in the dialogue 
form, and is accounted a very curious and valuable re¬ 
cord ’of the grounds and principles of the law of England 
as underdood at that time, and of various circumdances 
relative to the mode of education in the inns of court. It 
is rather an exprefs panegyric of the common law, than 
a fair comparifon of it with the civil or other foreign 
fydeins, though fome of the points of preference on which 
it dwells are very jultly dated. One of the mod valuable 
parts of it is that which treats of the difference between 
the two forms of government which he calls regal and po¬ 
litical, meaning, by the firft, abfolute monarchy, and by the 
fecond, one limited bylaws; and as he explicitly in¬ 
cludes the government of England among the latter, he 
has been quoted in oppofition to the opinion of Hume, 
the fpirit of whofe hidory is to fhew that our parliaments 
had no proper legidative power. Several editions have 
been made of this work both in Latin and Englidi. The 
lad and bed, enriched with a hidorical preface and notes, 
was publiffied by Mr. Gregor in 1775, Svo. His work, 
On the Difference between an Abfolute and Limited Monar¬ 
chy, publiffied fird by lord Fortefcue in 1714, appears to 
be only a repetition in Englilh of what is faid in the pre¬ 
ceding’ piece concerning the conditution of England. 
FOR'TESCUE BAY, a bay of South America, in the 
Straits of Magellan. Lat. 53. 39,,, S. Ion. 73-. 22. W. 
Greenwich. . , , . , 
FORTH, one of the fined rivers in Scotland, which 
rifes near the bottom of the Lomond Hills. Between 
Stirling and Alloa it winds in a beautiful and fingular 
manner; fo that, although it is but four miles by land, it 
js twenty-four by water between thefe two places. Af¬ 
ter a courfe of near forty-miles, it meets the fea a little 
below Stirling, where it forms the noble efiuary called 
the Frith of Forth. A communication between this river 
and the Clyde, by a canal, is now happily accomplidied, 
and cannot but contribute greatly to the benefit of com¬ 
merce in that quarter. See the article Scotland. 
FORTH, adv. [pojvS, Sax. whence/w//ier and fur- 
thefl. J Forward; onward in time : 
from that day forth I lov’d that face divine j 
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F O II 
From that day forth I caff in careful mind 
To feek her out. Spenjhr. 
Forward in place or order.—Look at the fecond admoni¬ 
tion, and fo forth, where they fpeak in mod: unchriffian 
manner. Wkitgifte. 
Mad Pandarus deps forth, with vengence vow’d 
For Bitias’ death. Dryden. 
Abroad; out of doors.—-Uncle, I muff come forth. Shake- 
fpcare. 
When winter pad, and fummer fcarce begun, 
Invites them forth to labour in the fun. Dryden. 
Out away ; beyond the boundary of any place : 
Ev’n that funffune brew’d a Ibow’r for him, 
That wafh’d his father’s fortunes forth of France. Shahef. 
Out into a public character; public view.—You may fet 
forth the fame with farm houfes. Peacham. 
But when your troubled country call’d you forth , 
Your darning courage, and your matchlefs worth, 
To fierce contention gave a profp’rous end. Waller. 
Thoroughly ; from beginning to end : 
You, coufin, "' 
Whom it concerns to hear this matter forth, 
Do with your injuries as feems you bed. Shakefptare. 
To a certain degree.—Hence we learn, how far forth we 
may expect judificatjpn and falvation from the fufferings 
of Chrid ; no further than we are wrought on by his re¬ 
newing grace. Hammond .—On to the end.—I repeated the 
Ave-Muria : the inquifitor bad me fay forth ; I faid I was 
taught no more. Memoir in Strype. 
FORTH, prep. Out of: 
Some forth their cabins peep, 
And trembling alk what news, and do hear fo 
As jealous hufbands, what they would not know. Donne- 
FORTHCO'MING, adj. Ready to appear; not ab- 
fconding; not lod.—Carry this mad knave to jail: I 
charge you fee that he be forthcoming. Shakefpeare. 
To FORTHI'NK, v. a. To relinquiffi the thoughts of, 
—But foon began fuch folly to forethinke againe. Spenfer. 
FORTHIS'SUING, adj. Coming out; coming forward 
from a covert: 
Fcrthijfuing thus, die gave him fird to wield 
A weighty axe, with trued temper deel’d, 
And double edg’d. Pope. 
FORTHRI'GHT, adv. Straight forward; without 
flexions.—Thither forthright he rode to roufe the prey. 
Dryden. 
Arrived there, they paffed in forthright ; 
For dill to all the gate dood open wide. Spenfer. 
FORTHRI'GHT,/. A draight path : 
Here’s a maze trod, indeed. 
Through forthrights and meanders Shakefpeare. 
FORTHWI'TH, adv. Immediately; without delay; 
at once ; draight.—In his paffage thither one put into his 
hand a note of the whole confpiracy, defiring him to read 
it forthwith, and to remember the giver of it as long as he 
lived. South. 
Forthwith began thefe fury-moving founds, 
The notes of wrath, the mulic brought front hell, 
The rattling drums. Daniels. 
FOR'THY, adv. [from pojtJjan, Sax. idea."] Therefore. 
—Forthy appeafe your griefe and heavy plight. Spenfer 
FOR'TIETH, adj. The fourth tenth; next afier the 
thirty-ninth.—Burnet fays, Scotland is not above a for¬ 
tieth part in value to the red of Britain; and, with refpedt 
to the profit that England gains from thence, not the forty 
tlioufandth part. Swift. 
What doth it avail 
To be the fortieth man in an entail ? Dome. 
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