However strange these convictions may appear, they were essential parts of the national belief.

Yet, with the most extreme folly, Charles, acting like Henry VIII.

as his own Pope, thrust the canons and this Liturgy upon the Kirk and country.

No sentimental arguments can palliate such open tyranny.
The Liturgy was to be used in St Giles' Church, the town kirk of Edinburgh (cleansed and restored by Charles himself), on July 23, 1637.
The result was a furious brawl, begun by the women, of all presbyterians the fiercest, and, it was said, by men disguised as women.

A gentleman was struck on the ear by a woman for the offence of saying "Amen," and the famous Jenny Geddes is traditionally reported to have thrown her stool at the Dean's head.