Note 25 — Chapter I · SUMMARY.

This sentence is very singular, as it seems to bind James IV. for his whole life, in case of Margaret’s death, and appears therefore a strange innovation in the rites of marriage in the Roman Church, which never varies even in trifles. If the herald-chronicler had not recorded a reciprocal vow as made by Margaret to James, the author would have treated the obligation as a mistake of the transcriber.