Arran himself, when he arrived in Scotland, robbed a priest of all that he had, for which Chatelherault made compensation.
By the middle of June the Regent was compelled to remove almost all her French soldiers out of Fife.

Perth was evacuated.

The abbey of Scone and the palace were sacked.

The Congregation entered Edinburgh: they seem to have found the monasteries already swept bare, but they seized Holyrood, and the stamps at the Mint.

The Regent proclaimed that this was flat rebellion, and that the rebels were intriguing with England.
Knox denied it, in the first part of his History (in origin a contemporary tract written in the autumn), but the charge was true, and Knox and Kirkcaldy were, since June, the negotiators.