Note 74 — SOME MEMORANDA OF THE OLD KIRK OF ST GILES.
Reading edition
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.’