[Footnote 90: Dole,--on the river Doux, in Franche Comté.]
[Footnote 91: It is singular that the three contemporary monarchs,
Edward IV. of England--James III. of Scotland--Louis XI. of France,
should have each murdered his brother.]
[Footnote 92: For further particulars relative to the duke of Albany,
I refer to Pinkerton's History of Scotland. In a note to the Cronique
Scandaleuse by the abbé Lenglet du Fresnoy, he says,--'Alexander
Stuart, brother to James III. king of Scotland, died at Paris 1483,
and was buried in the convent of the Celestins. But by Pinkerton he
was alive in 1484, and was accidentally killed, when a spectator at
a tournament between the duke of Orleans and another knight, by a
splinter from a lance. His son John was duke of Albany, and regent of
Scotland during the minority of James V.]
[Footnote 93: This battle of Guinegate decided nothing; for though
Maximilian was beaten, he remained master of the field,--and Comines
says, that had he attempted Therouenne or Arras, he would have found
both towns empty.]
[A.D. 1480.]