[72] We learn from Crawford’s _History of the University_ (MS. Adv.
Lib.) that the service was read that day in the Old Kirk on account of
the more dignified place of worship towards the east being then under
the process of alteration for the erection of the altar, ‘and other
pendicles of that idolatrous worship.’
[73] _Notes upon the Phœnix edition of the Pastoral Letter_, by S.
Johnson, 1694.
[74] Wodrow, in his _Diary_, makes a statement apparently at issue with
that in the text, both in respect of locality and person:
‘It is the constantly believed tradition that it was Mrs Mean, wife to
John Mean, merchant in Edinburgh, who threw the first stool when the
service-book was read in the New Kirk, Edinburgh, 1637, and that many
of the lasses that carried on the fray were preachers in disguise, for
they threw stools to a great length.’
[75] A newspaper commenced after the Restoration, and continued through
eleven numbers.
[76] Small stools.
[77] See _St Giles’, Edinburgh: Church, College, and Cathedral_, by the
Rev. Sir J. Cameron Lees, D.D.; also _Historical Sketch of St Giles’
Cathedral_, by William Chambers, by whom the cathedral was restored in
1872-83. Regarding the reinterment of Montrose, there is a narrative,
with some fresh light on the subject, in the paper, ‘The Embalming of
Montrose,’ in the first volume of _The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club_.
The monuments to Knox, the Earl of Murray, and the Marquises of Argyll
and Montrose are quite modern.