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According to Barbour, Comyn betrayed his agreement with Bruce to King Edward I, and when Bruce arranged a meeting for 10 February 1306 with Comyn in the Chapel of Greyfriars Monastery in Dumfries and accused him of treachery, they came to blows.
Bruce killed Comyn in Dumfries before the high altar.
The Scotichronicon says that on being told that Comyn had survived the attack and was being treated, two of Bruce's supporters, Roger de Kirkpatrick uttering the words " I mak siccar (" I make sure ") and John Lindsay, went back into the church and finished Bruce's work.
Barbour however tells no such story.
Regardless, for Bruce the ' die was cast ' at the moment in Greyfriars and he had no alternative except to become king or a fugitive, Bruce asserted his claim to the Scottish crown and began his campaign by force for the independence of Scotland.
Swords were drawn by supporters of both sides, the burial ground of the Monastery becoming the battlefield.

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