Note 176 — Chapter I · —How the King of France cajoled the English after the Duke of Burgundy’s Death, for fear they should have interrupted him in the Conquest of the Territories belonging to the said Duke.—1477. (continued 2)

This is the third explanation given by Commines of the cause of Edward’s death. At Vol. I. p. 394, he says he died of melancholy, and at p. 62. of this volume he ascribes his decease to a catarrh. Apoplexy is the most probable explanation of the event.