A fact from John Fortescue of Salden appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 July 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:
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Photo is not John of Salden, but John Fortescue (judge)[edit]
The photo attributed to John Fortescue of Salden is actually a wood engraving of John Fortescue (judge). Although John of Salden and John Fortescue (judge) were both Chancellors (to make it more confusing!), I use as a source, "The Works of Sir John Fortescue, Knight, Chief Justice of England and Lord Chancellor to King Henry the Sixth. Now first collected and arranged by Thomas (Fortescue) Lord Clermont, printed for private distribution, London, 1869." This book is available at www.archive.org. In this collected works of John Fortescue (judge), it shows this same wood engraving as a portrait of John Fortescue (judge). As further support, William Faithorne did wood engravings of prominent individuals such as queens, prominent members of Parliament, etc. John of Salden likely was not of enough social status to have a wood engraving done, but John (judge) certainly was. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.216.117.33 (talk) 19:03, 25 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Sorted. The portrait now up is of the Chancellor of the Exchequer (it says so in the background text), not the judge. LookLook36 (talk) 08:49, 3 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
