Note 399 — Chapter XIII
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Again we may remark that like excesses had been committed in Roman Catholic times. In the annals of Rochester, 1264, we find: "Portæ, siquidem, ejus circumquque exustæ sunt, chorus ejus in luctum, et organa ejus in vocem flentium sunt concitata. Quid pluras, loca sacra, utpote oratoria, claustra, capitulum infirmaria, et oracula quæque divina, stabula equorum sunt effecta; et animalium immunditiis spurcitiisque cadaverum ubique sunt repleta."—Anglia Sacra, i. 351.
After the Reformation Ridley was prevented from giving Grindal a prebend in St. Paul's by the King's Council, who had bestowed it on the King, for the furniture of his stable.—Blunt's History of the Reformation, 244.
In 1561, according to Strype, the south aisle of the cathedral was used for a horse fair.