Scottish History For Dummies by Knox William

Author:Knox, William [Knox, William]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781118676134
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2014-06-24T16:00:00+00:00

The Book of Common Prayer and more trouble for Charles

The furore over the coronation was nothing compared to Charles’s attempts to impose the English Book of Common Prayer on the Scottish Church without any consultation. Although it was drafted by Scottish bishops, the new prayer book was clearly the work of Charles’s chief adviser, Archbishop William Laud.

The first reading of the book took place on 23 July 1637 in St Giles’s Cathedral in Edinburgh, and it led to a riot. One of the serving women, warming the pew for her mistress, Jenny Geddes, reputedly threw a stool at the dean of the Cathedral, John Hanna, saying the immortal words: ‘daur ye say Mass in my lug (dare you say Mass in my ear)?’

The ferment in Edinburgh spread like a plague to other parts of the country. The earl of Montrose summed up the general mood when he claimed that the book had emerged ‘from the bowels of the whore of Babylon’!

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