Nor need we ask what became of church treasures, perhaps of great value and antiquity.

In some known cases, the magistrates held and sold those of the town churches.

Some of the plate and vestments at Aberdeen were committed to the charge of Huntly, but about 1900 ounces of plate were divided among the Prebendaries, who seem to have appropriated them.

{124} The Church treasures of Glasgow were apparently carried abroad by Archbishop Beaton.
If Lord James, as Prior, took possession of the gold and silver of St.
Andrews, he probably used the bullion (he spent some 13,000 crowns) in his defence of the approaches to the town, against the French, in December 1559.

A silver mace of St.Salvator's College escaped the robbers.
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