On Sunday 3 April [1603 (?)] James attended morning service at the High Church of St. Giles, Edinburgh – a church described by Fynes Moryson as “large and lightsome” but “nothing at all for beauty and ornament.”
James’s throne was raised on wooden steps against the pillar next to the pulpit. Opposite was another seat very like it, in which those accused of acts of immorality were made to do their public penance. A few weeks before Moryson’s visit, a stranger had sat in this seat, assuming it was meant for important gentlemen, “till he was driven away with the profuse laughter of the common sort, to the disturbance of the whole congregation.”
Source:
Lisle, Leanda De. "Lots Were Cast Upon Our Land" After Elizabeth: The Rise of James of Scotland and the Struggle for the Throne of England. New York: Ballantine, 2005. 138. Print.
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