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28 TIIL" HOUSE OF DUNllOD.
been sucli a restoration, the Catholic cluigy niinlit liave
resumed their olliccs in Glasgow, but little iiictjnimoded
by the slight injury that the Chuich buildings had
suffered there. Suih was the actual if not also the
intended effect of the appointment as provost of a
Protestant whom we have reason to believe was a man
of temperate and judicious mind.
The laird of Dun rod was present at the Convention
of 1560, which a})proved of the Confession of Faith " as
hailsome and sound doctrine, groundit upon the in-
fallible trewth of Godis word "
; the first public recognition
of the cause of reform in religion.* A month
before the meeting of the Convention the Archbishop
of Glasgow had conveyed away to a [Jlace of safety the
church plate and valuable vestments of his cathedral, f
The removal of the treasures was efl'ected none too
soon ; for the Lords of the Congiegation issued orders
that altars, images, and whatever savoured of idolatry,
should be destroyed. At the same tinu; they forbade
injury to the fabrics of the churches ; but it was rarely
possible to restrain the " rascal multitude " within the
limits set by their leaders.
The Earls of Arran, Argyle, and Glencairn went to
the West to see to the execution of the order, and the
ruined Abbeys of Paisley, Kilwinning, and Crossraguel
testified to the thoroughness with which the work was
done. Glasgow offered a still more promising field for
their activities. It was largely a place of ecclesiastical
buildings. There were the cathedral, the archbishop's
palace, some score of the stately manses of the prebend-
aries, the monasteries of the Black and the Grey Friars,
* Acb of Purl, Vol. II., p. 526.
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