John FitzJames

Sir John FitzJames, who lived from around 1465 or 1470 until around 1542, was an English jurist who served as Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench from 1526 to 1539. Before that appointment he had served as Attorney General and as Chief Baron of the Exchequer. He advised Lord Chancellor Thomas Audley during the 1535 treason trial of Sir Thomas More and later counselled Thomas Cromwell on the legality of using royal proclamations to regulate commerce, and he was the nephew of Richard FitzJames, Bishop of London, having previously served as Recorder of Bristol. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/