Jenny Geddes
This one was inevitably going to be a short post purely for the fact that no one knows anything about Jenny Geddes other than she existed and threw a chair at Dean James Hannay. The back story is that following Charles I's ascension to the throne in 1625 he had a bit of a different view point in terms of religion and so when he started implementing his views in Scotland, who hadn't really taken kindly to him anyway, there was an uproar. In 1637 there was a riot in St Giles' as the Scottish people were protesting against the English style prayer book which Charles had decided to introduce. Dean James Hannay, trying to keep the congregation under control began reading from the new book and the legend goes that a local called Jenny Geddes stood from her stool, shouted 'DINNA SAY MASS IN MY LUG' which is the beautifully Scottish way of saying don't say mass in my ear, and threw her stool at his head. Firstly, what a woman. That is what this post is rea...
