“The defence offered in a High Commission hearing of 3 May 1632 by a countryman caught “pissing against a pillar†in St Paul’s en route to his wedding – that he did not realize that he was in a church – has sometimes been cited as evidence of the cathedral’s secularization, but the case itself more importantly reveals Laud’s insistence on rigorous enforcement.”
p. 58, in Crankshaw, D.J. “Community, City and Nation, 1540-1714,†pp. 45-70
p. 53, Keene, D. Burns, A, Saint, A (eds), St Paul’s: The Cathedral Church of London 604-2004, Yale Uni Press, New Haven, 2004.
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