The Catholic Bagpipe

The paraliturgical Catholic Bagpipe.

I was actually looking for something quite different when I ran across this text from a 19th century publication - 'The Quarterly Review' - quoting John Knox. Poor old Dr John is on the verge of bursting a blood vessel describing Edinburgh's pre-reformation procession in honour of her patron St Giles on his feast day. The statue of St Giles borne in procession is "the marmoset idol"; those in the procession are "the generation of Antichrist". And he's only getting warmed up. Ecumenism was not his strong suit.

But this bit of text was interesting for other reasons:

Yet would not the priests and friars cease to have that great solemnity and manifest abomination which they accustomably had upon St Gile's day; – to wit, they would have that idol borne, and therefore was all preparation necessary duly made. . . .There assembled priests, friars, canons, and rotten papists with tabours and trumpets, banners and bagpipes; and who was there to lead the ring but the Queen Regent herself with all her shavelings for honour of that feast!

It appears you can't have a proper Catholic religious procession without your " priests, friars, canons, and rotten papists with tabours and trumpets, banners and bagpipes".

As both a rotten papist and a bagpiper, I may get precedence.