101.
* Knox, p.

122.
Some time after, the people discovered their sentiments in such a manner as was sufficient to prognosticate to the priests the fate which was awaiting them.

It was usual on the festival of St.Giles, the tutelar saint of Edinburgh, to carry in procession the image of that saint; but the Protestants, in order to prevent the ceremony, found means, on the eve of the festival, to purloin the statue from the church; and they pleased themselves with imagining the surprise and disappointment of his votaries.

The clergy, however, framed hastily a new image, which in derision was called by the people young St.Giles; and they carried it through the streets, attended by all the ecclesiastics in the town and neighborhood.

The multitude abstained from violence so long as the queen regent continued a spectator; but the moment she retired, they invaded the idol, threw it in the mire, and broke it in pieces.