+Source.+--_Nicholas Trivet's Annals_, pp. 407-408. (English
Historical Society Publications.)
In the same year, on the twenty-ninth day of January, Robert the Bruce,
aspiring to the kingdom of Scotland, sacrilegiously slew the noble John
Comyn, who had refused to abet his treacherous rebellion, in the church
of the Minorite Brethren at Dumfries, in the castle of which town the
King's justices were then sitting. Thereafter, on the Feast of the
Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin, he had himself solemnly crowned King
in the abbey of Canons Regular at Scone. The wife of the Earl of Buchan
secretly departed from her husband, taking all his war-horses with her,
and hastened to Scone to place the diadem on the head of the new King;
for her brother, the Earl of Fife, on whom devolved the duty by
hereditary right, was then absent in England. This Countess was captured
in the same year by the English, but, when some of them wished to put
her to death, the King interfered; instead, he confined her in a wooden
cage on the wall of the Castle of Berwick, so that she might be seen by
the passers-by.