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Podcast: The Semper Reformata Podcast
Episode: A Wee Woman and a Stool!
Description: A Wee Woman and a Stool!In 1637, a riot broke out in Edinburgh - it was precipitated by an event that took place in St Gile's Cathedral, where a woman decided she didn't like to hear prayers being read out of a book - and worse!The Song of Jenny Geddes by J.S. Blackie‘Twas the twenty-third of July, in the sixteen thirty-seven,On the Sabbath morn from high St. Giles the solemn peal was given;King Charles had sworn that Scottish men should pr...