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Fortescue was probably brought into Parliament by Henry, 5th Baron Windsor, perhaps at his father’s request, after a fierce contest with Francis Goodwin. He died s.p. and almost certainly v.p.Mdx. Peds. (Harl. Soc. lxv), 50; Vis. Bucks. (Harl. Soc lviii), 58; T. Fortescue, Lord Clermont, Fortescue Fam. 380.

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