J. F. Campbell Collection > Minstrelsy of the Scottish border > Volume 2

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lie with the music, which seems to have been adapted
to the bagpipes.
The hatred of the old presbyterians to the organ was
apparently invincible. It is here vilified with the name
of a " chest-full of whistles ," as the Episcopal Chapel at
Glasgow was, by the vulgar, opprobriously tenned the
Whistling Kirk. Yet, such is the revolution of sentiment
upon this, as upon more important points, that reports
have lately been current, of a plan to introduce this no-
ble instrument into presbyterian congregations.
The share which Lesly's army bore in the action of
Marston Moor, has been exalted, or depressed, as wri-
ters were attached to the English or Scottish nations,
to the presbyterian or independent factions. Mr Laing
concludes Avith laudable impartiality, that the victory
was equally due to " Cromwell's iron brigade of disci-
" plined independents, and to three regiments of Les-
" ly's horse." — Vol. I. p. 244.