The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland . the men of war until the rebellious and disobedient It was consigned to Holland, to be there sold; but the ship in which It was embarkedfoundered; and of course such an opportunity would not be lost for connecting the calamity withthe sacrilegious act which had supplied the cargo. Thus exposed to the weather, the interior wentfast to decay. So late as the year 1640, some paintings of Mater Dolorosas, Crucifixions, andother Catholic pictorial decorations, were in existence; and the adherents of the ancient faith were,we are t
The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland . the men of war until the rebellious and disobedient It was consigned to Holland, to be there sold; but the ship in which It was embarkedfoundered; and of course such an opportunity would not be lost for connecting the calamity withthe sacrilegious act which had supplied the cargo. Thus exposed to the weather, the interior wentfast to decay. So late as the year 1640, some paintings of Mater Dolorosas, Crucifixions, andother Catholic pictorial decorations, were in existence; and the adherents of the ancient faith were,we are told, in the practice of resorting to them for the performance of their devotion. In thatyear some zealous reformers, headed by the Lairds of Innes and Brodie, and by some of the neigh-bouring clergy, proceeded to the ruins—which must have then exhibited all the sad grandeur ofincipient decay—and demolished the symbols of Idolatry, with the rood-screen which • Pitcairns Crimina] Trials, i. 377. + Shaw, 317. I Sketches of Moray,
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