History of the house and race of Douglas and Angus

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shining with precious stones, and his glistering armour, ran
fiercely at him with a lance, and wounded him in the face,
he being hereby in a great fury, put forward his horse to have
charged the enemy, but was encountered by the earl of Buchan,
who ran him through with a spear, and so slew him; or, as o-
thers, felled him down to the ground with a steel hammer. The
rest seeing him fall, some fled, and many were slain in their
flight, being pursued till the night came on. This battle was
fought on Pasch Eve, in the year 1420, or, as our writers and
the English say, 1421. There were slain of the English 200
nobles and gentlemen, the Duke of Clarence, the Earl of Tan-
kerville, the Lord Ross, Sir Gilbert Umfravile; whom they
call Earl of Angus, John Lumley, Sir Robert the Earl of
Somerset and his brother whose sister James I. did marry
afterward, Suffolk and Perch, the Lord Fit2 water, Sir John
Barclay, Sir Ralph Nevil, Sir Henry Inglis, Sir William
Lanton, Sir Thomas Boroughs, were taken prisoners. There
were but few slain of the Scots and French, and those mean
and obscure men. This is the most common report of the
Duke of Clarence's death, but the book of Pluscardin saith,
that he was slain by Alexander Maclellan, a knight in the
Lennox, who also having taken the coronet from off his head
sold it to John Stewart of Darnley for 1000 angels.
This victory being obtained, most part by the valour of the
Scots, the Dauphin, in recompence hereof, made Buchan con-
stable of France, and mortgaged the Dukedom of Touraine
to Wigton, the revenue whereof at that time was valued to
10,000 crowns. The reversion of this dutchy he gave after-
wards to the Earl Douglas his father, who was created abso-
lute Duke of Touraine and Lord of Longueville and establish-
ed the same to his male heirs, as shall be shown hereafter.
The French writers say also, that he made Wigton Marshal
of France.
The King of England, upon the death of his brother, came
into France in May, or about the beginning of June, and car-
ried along with him the heir of the crown of Scotland, after-
wards King James I. thereby to divert the Scots from assisting