Note 198 — Chapter IX

"The higher house," says Baillie, "have made an order, which was read in the churches, that none presume of their own head to alter any customs established by law: this procured ordinance does not discourage any one."—P. 237. Some rioters, however, who had pulled down rails about the altar, etc., were committed by order of the Lords in June. Nalson, ii. 275.