The Covenanters a History of the Church in Scotland From the Reformation to the
The Covenanters a History of the Church in Scotland From the Reformation to the
Hewison, James King, B. 1853
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John Erskine of Dun is said to have been the only minister be-north Tay who opposed the Perth Articles : Scott, FasiL vi. 822. Articles. THE ERASTIAN KING 201 against the ritualists being Joiin Mein, a merchant, whose wife, or kinswoman, obtained universal notoriety in 1637 as 'Jenny Geddes' of the Liturgy riots. The King ordered Mein into banishment.^ The effective David Calderwood was still lurking about, and the stately Bruce was not far off, to inspire the opposition. At the spring Communio...n in the Capital only Crown officials and paupers could be induced to take the sacrament in a kneeling posture. Some churches were empty ; in others the simple people followed the new customs, but with tears and prayers laid their confessed sin upon the souls of the celebrants and adjured God to judge their cause. Many left the city to seek comfort in rural churches where the time-hallowed customs were still observed.^ In Burntisland the spring sacraments of 1 6 1 7 and 1 6 1 8 were attended by 900 communicants, that of 1 6 1 9 by 450, and that of 1620 by 425, of whom only some took the elements in a kneeling posture.
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