Works Referred to by Sir John Fortescue

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Principal sources: Thomas Fortescue, Lord Clermont, The Works of Sir John Fortescue, Knight (London: 1869); The Governance of England by Sir John Fortescue , ed. C. Plummer (Oxford: 1885); De Laudibus Legum Anglie , ed. S.B. Chrimes (Cambridge: 1942); Sir John Fortescue: On the Laws and Governance of England , ed. S. Lockwood (Cambridge: 1997). References are given in the form adopted by Sir John Fortescue or his editors. In many cases, Fortescue used unacknowledged compendia such as the Auctoritates Aristotelis and Roger of Waltham's Compendium Morale ; subsequent opinions about his sources are not cited. See Chapters 4 and 5 for a discussion of his sources. Of the Title of Edward earl of March (De Titulo Edwardi Comitis Marchie ) A number of references to the Old Testament Chapter III. ‘the history of the English’. VII. ‘the chronicles and histories of England’. X. Compendium Morale , quoting from Augustine, De Civitate Dei. XII. Augustine, Against the Manichees . Of the Title of the House of York Old Testament, Genesis, 3.16. ‘chronicles in the reaume of France’. Augustine, ‘Quid sunt regna nisi magna latrocina’. Defensio Juris Domus Lancastriae Old Testament, Genesis 3:16. Replication against the claim and title of the duke of York for the crowns of England and France ‘cronicles of France and of Seelande’. De Natura Legis Naturae Many references to the Old and New Testaments Part 1 Chapter I. Aristotle (often referred to as ‘the Philosopher’), ‘omnia amamus’, not identified but there are similar phrases in Rhetoric , i, 38 and Politics , vii, 14–17. Seneca, Epist. 8. IV. Augustine, De Civitate Dei , xv, xvi. Josephus, De Antiquitatum Historiis, general reference. Canon Law, Decretum , pars i. distinctio i. cap i. V. Canon Law, Decretum , dist. viii. cap i; dist. ix; dist. v. cap i. and ‘the gloss’; dist. i. cap. i. St Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica in Prima Summae, quaestione xcvi. De Potestate legis humanae. articulo 2. Varro (probably taken from Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum Historiale ) Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum Historiale , v, 59; Eruditio Puerorum Regalium , cap. iii. VI. Josephus, Antiquitatum Jud . i.11 Civil Law, Digests , lib.i. tit.i. lex i. VII. Canon Law, Decretum , pars i. dist. vi. Augustine, De Civ. Dei , xvi.11. Cicero, De Officiis , iii.4 Homer, Iliad , Σ.109. Aquinas, De Regimine Principum , i. 10. Aristotle, Politics , v.12. Seneca, Naturales Quaestiones , vii.Ix.3. Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica , i. 44, 45.