Jenny Geddes
Deceased Person
1600 – 1660
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Who was Jenny Geddes?
Jenny Geddes was a Scottish market-trader in Edinburgh, who is alleged to have thrown her stool at the head of the minister in St Giles' Cathedral in objection to the first public use of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer in Scotland.
The act is reputed to have sparked the riot which led to the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, which included the English Civil War.
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