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Read with interest your June 3 article concerning Protestants and the Church of Scotland in the early 17th century. Jenny Geddes threw that "cutty stool" towards the head of my distant, illustrious relative, Dean James Hanna, who was reading the Collect for the Seventh Sunday after Trinity. It was July 23, 1637, and the people in St. Giles excitedly awaited the service book, which had been revised and "stamped" by Archbishops Laud and Wren. Its sponsors chose the most explosive hour possible. Thus, the infamous Jenny hurled the stool (see cut) and cried: "How dare you to say 'mass...
...Faced with an explosive plan to merge the Church of Scotland with the Church of England, appoint elders for the Anglicans, elect bishops for the Scots (TIME, June 3), the Church of Scotland's General Assembly decided not to decide, post-poned action for a year. Rumbled the Scottish edition of the Daily Express: "Instead of the sudden death it deserved, this iniquitous proposal is given another twelve months of dangerous life...
After that, though, the sergeant was shot. In the final round he played well, but he could not keep pace with Scotland's Reid Jack, 33. Sergeant Ridgley went around the first 18 in par (72). Jack, onetime British Marine commando lieutenant, countered with 69. But the crowd was still with Ridgley, and a spectator tried to help the sergeant by grinding Jack's golf ball into the sun-baked turf. Ridgley was too tired to care. Although the 1957 British Amateur will be remembered for the semifinal known as "Harold's Homicide," Harold Ridgley lost...
Died. Sir Michael William Selby Bruce, 63, descendant of Scotland's first King Robert Bruce (the spider watcher), brother of the late Actor Nigel Bruce, soldier, adventurer, author (No Escape from Adventure), and Canada's only titled newspaper columnist (the Vancouver Province); of a coronary thrombosis; in Vancouver...
...16th century Calvinist John Knox who thundered loudest against hierarchical control of the kirks in Scotland, then Roman Catholic. Knox and fellow theologians declared that church authority passed directly from the word of God to the church congregations, and the present system of church rule by locally elected elders and a nationally elected moderator who administers the presbyteries evolved from Knox's pronouncement...