See his treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliae.

Though we make allowance for the partialities of Fortescue, there must have been some foundation for his account; and these destructive wars are the most likely reason to be assigned for the difference remarked by this author.
** Grafton, p.

673.
*** Rymer, vol.x.p.

764, 776, 782, 795, 796.

This sum was equal to thirty-six thousand pounds sterling of our present money.