The establishment of the Scots Kirk at Campvere (now Veere) in 1614 to serve the needs of the small Scottish trading-community made it the first kirk outside Scotland to be connected to the General Assembly at home. The first minister appointed was the Rev. Alexander Macduff, in 1614. In 1620 he ordered four communioncups or - beakers from Isak de Cliever of Middelburg. Made of silver with engraved scrolls and bands the are 6.25 ins. high, bearing the date 1620. (Communion cups and drinking vesself of this pattern were common in the Netherlands, and are also to be found in parishes in North-east Scotland. Before the Reformation, church silver was commonly imported into Scotland from the Low Countries). On the bottom of each cup is the motto "Brotherlie Love is Good and Pleasant" (psalm 133), with a bundle of arrows held together by a girdle, encircled by a laurel wreath. Round the motto are two circular lines, each inscribed as follows:

• Cup 1.: Scoto Veranorum factorum consonus ardor
  - - - - - Concording zeal off Factors at Campheir (Inner line)
• Cup 2.: Quator ad domini dicat nos pocula mensam
  - - - - - Gevis us four coups for the Lord's table
• Cup 3.: Anno ad sexcentos et mille a Virgine Matre
  - - - - - The year off God a thousand with sax hunder
• Cup 4.: Bis decimo iano mense et pastore Maduffo
  - - - - - And twentie in Ianuar Macduff being minister.

The complete inscription is thus divided into four parts, each cup bearing a section of it. (The latin text on cup no.3 refers to "the year of the Virgin Mother", rather than the "year of God" in the english translation). Towards the end of the 18th. century the collapse of trade with Scotland and hostilities between teh Dutch State and Britain reduced the kirk at Veere to poverty. Rev. James Likly of Aberdeen was its last minister. In October 1798 the kirk's monuments and coats of arms were taken into custody by the town authorities. A year later, on 2 NOvember 1799, Likly was given four weeks to withdraw from Veere. On 27 November the elders wrote to the Presbytery in Edinburgh: "How much we now regrate the loss of Publick Worship in our own language, the dispersion of our congregation and the loss of our Pastor, so justly esteemed and respected by us, the Reverend Presbytery can better conceive than we can express". The kirk's four communion cups passed finally from the custody of one of the elders to his son. After his death his widow confessed to the minister of Niddelburg that, instead of passing them on to him as het husband had directed, she had sold them. They were not traced. On 23 July 1875 the four cups were offered for sale as "old silver" by a firm of jewellers in the Strand, London and bought by Lord Egerton of Tatton, a wealthy Cheshire landowner en Ecclesiastical Commissioner of the Church of England. In 1893 he presented them to Manchester Cathedral, where they remain.