. Scoti-Monasticon: the ancient church of Scotland, a history of the cathedrals, conventual foundations, collegiate churches, and hospitals of Scotland. ting thepeople, with a barbaric and senseless deformation, to hack down minstersand obliterate all that w^as venerable and ancient.* In 1559 the Earl of Argyle and the Prior of St. Andrews rode together toravage Lindores, Balmerino, and Cupar, and leave traces of their impiety inevery place throughout Fife. On June 18, the prior of St. Andrews, weare told, hath defaced divers churches with plucking down the images, andchanging the monks coats
. Scoti-Monasticon: the ancient church of Scotland, a history of the cathedrals, conventual foundations, collegiate churches, and hospitals of Scotland. ting thepeople, with a barbaric and senseless deformation, to hack down minstersand obliterate all that w^as venerable and ancient.* In 1559 the Earl of Argyle and the Prior of St. Andrews rode together toravage Lindores, Balmerino, and Cupar, and leave traces of their impiety inevery place throughout Fife. On June 18, the prior of St. Andrews, weare told, hath defaced divers churches with plucking down the images, andchanging the monks coats into other apparel; and, as I hear say, they arepresently going to one of the richest churches in Scotland for to spoil.* Themanner of their proceeding in reformation is this—they pull down all manner • .Sec Hist. Ace. of JCcnncdy, and Cbambcrss Dom. Ann., i. 65—67. » Dom. Papers, Scoll., I. No. 52 ; B-ilfour, i. 320. Leslie, 55 ; Balfour, i. 308—3K). I cslie, 550; Balfour, i. 316. » Ibid. Ibid. 531, 548; Balfour, i. 315. Leslie, 540. Xoilliumbcrland lo Cecil, Dom. St. Pap. Scotl., vol. i., No. 37; Comp. Pilcainis Crim. Tii-ils,• p3 ^ e. -i THE AXCIENT CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. 19 of friaries and some abbeys which willingly receive not the reformation. Asto parish churches, they cleanse them of images and all other monuments ofidolatry, and command that no mass be said in them. Faithful ministers were to have the revenues: to their sorrow they never did, and so hadrighteous judgment. On July 3 the Protestants in great numbers were in-tending to go to Kelso and to all the abbeys westward.^ On June 28 JohnKnox significantly wrote that monuments of idolatry were to be removed :the reformation is somewhat violent because the adversaries be stubborn. ^In 1560, at Dunkeld, the statuary was cast down and the altars were burned.* The havoc, indeed, was enormous -. and we possess an unimpeachablewitness in Robert Pont, commissioner of Moray, and one of the lords ofsession in
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