A priest was so imprudent, after this sermon, as to open
his repository of images and relics, and prepare himself to say mass.
The audience, exalted to a disposition for any furious enterprise, were
as much enraged as if the spectacle had not been quite familiar to them:
they attacked the priest with fury, broke the images in pieces, tore the
pictures, overthrew the altars, scattered about the sacred vases; and
left no implement of idolatrous worship, as they termed it, entire or
undefaced. They thence proceeded, with additional numbers and augmented
rage, to the monasteries of the Gray and Black friars, which they
pillaged in an instant: the Carthusians underwent the same fate: and the
populace, not content with robbing and expelling the monks, vented
their fury on the buildings which had been the receptacles of such
abomination; and in a little time nothing but the walls of these
edifices were left standing. The inhabitants of Coupar, in Fife, soon
after imitated the example.
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