John Knox : the hero of the Scottish Reformation . lyconference, but really in order to cover a with-drawal of the Regent to the south of the this interval the purging of churchesand monasteries continued; among other build-ings dealt with was the Abbey of IV. At the expiry of the truce on the ist ofJune, the Reformers took possession of Perth,which surrendered after a brief resistance 2; thecitizens being for the most part in sympathy withthe Protestant movement. A few days after-wards, against the will of Knox and many others,the Abbey of Scone was destroyed by fire 3
John Knox : the hero of the Scottish Reformation . lyconference, but really in order to cover a with-drawal of the Regent to the south of the this interval the purging of churchesand monasteries continued; among other build-ings dealt with was the Abbey of IV. At the expiry of the truce on the ist ofJune, the Reformers took possession of Perth,which surrendered after a brief resistance 2; thecitizens being for the most part in sympathy withthe Protestant movement. A few days after-wards, against the will of Knox and many others,the Abbey of Scone was destroyed by fire 3; Stir- the work neither of the Reformers nor of the magistrates,but of the rascal multitude (see Hume Brown, H. of Sc,ii., 60). There is no contemporary evidence to prove thatthe Cathedral was demolished at the Reformation (HayFleming, St. Andrews, p. 51). 1 Knox, H. of R., i., 353; Laing, W. of K., vi., 26. 2 Knox, H. of R., i., 357-359. 3 Ibid., i., 35 9-3 62. Whereat [writes Knox] no smallnumber of us were offended. He and other Protestant J-.
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