26/31 Excavated from the ruins of the Abbey by the late Marquis of Bute: knox4.jpg] There is no sign of the possession of much specie by the Congregation in the months that followed the sack of so many treasuries of pious offerings. Lesley says that they wanted to coin the plate in Edinburgh, and for that purpose seized, as they certainly did, the dies of the mint. In fact the plate of Aberdeen cathedral, as inventoried in the Register, is no great treasure. |