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in the Prayer-Book. It is now held by some 

 churchmen that the Lambeth terms are 



only "Catholic minima" which may or 



must draw after them a long train of 

 other ecclesiastical requirements ; and it 

 has been surmised that the addition of 

 the whole Prayer-Book to those terms 

 would make their acceptance difficult, if 

 not impossible, especially for Presbyterians. 

 The day was, indeed, wdien the armed im- 

 position of that excellent liturgy upon a 

 Presbyterian assembly in St. Giles's Cathe- 

 dral w T as attended with responses more 

 forcible than decorous, and the reading of 

 a single collect was enough to kindle a 

 war of kingdoms as well as churches. But 

 " the whirligig of time brings strange re- 

 venges." Let us hear the sequel: Jenny 

 Geddes lived to throw that Presbyterian 

 idol, her famous tripod, into a bon-fire cele- 

 brating the return of royalty, liturgy, and 

 episcopacy. 1 It was another extreme act, 



1 " I cannot help mentioning as remarkable, that 

 on the 23rd April, 1661, Jenny Geddes, the very woman 

 who had given the first signal of civil broil by throw- 

 ing her stool at the Dean of Edinburgh's head, when 

 he read the service-book on the memorablo 23d July, 

 1637, showed her conversion to loyalty by contributing 

 the materials of her green-stall, her baskets, shells, 



