Note 6 — Chapter V · NORTH TIROL—UNTERINNTHAL. (LEFT INN-BANK.)

There is something like this in Dean Milman’s Annals of St. Paul’s Cathedral:—‘“Others,” adds Bishop Braybroke, “by the instigation of the devil, do not scruple to play at ball, and other unseemly games, within the church (he is speaking of St. Paul’s), breaking the costly painted windows, to the amazement of the spectators.”’ Speaking of the post-Reformation period, the Dean adds: ‘If, when the cathedral was more or less occupied by sacred subjects, the invasion of the sanctuary by worldly sinners resisted all attempts at suppression; now, that the daily service had shrunk into mere forms of prayer, at best into a mere ‘Cathedral Service,’ ... it cannot be wondered at that the reverence, which all the splendour of the old ritual could not maintain, died away altogether as Puritanism rose in the ascendant.’ Mr. Longman, however (The Three Cathedrals, p. 54–6), quotes the very stringent regulations which were issued for the repression of such practices: perhaps the legend constructor would say, these afford the reason why, though St. Paul’s was profaned like the church of Achensee, it did not ‘likewise perish.’