...one time when they went in procession about the cathedral church, he would not do it in the usual way in his surplice, hood, etc on foot, but rode on a mare, thus habited, with the Common Prayer book in his hand, reading. A stallion happened to break loose, and smelled the mare, and ran and leapt her, and held the reverend dean all the time so hard in his embraces, that he could not get off till the horse had done his business. But he would never ride in procession afterwards.[5][6]
References
^ ab"Willis' Survey of St. Asaph, considerably enlarged and brought down to the present time" Edwards, E. pp177/8: Wrexham, John Painter, 1801
^Megarry, Robert (2005). A New Miscellany-At-Law: Yet Another Diversion for Lawyers and Others. Oxford and Portland, Oregon: Hart Publishing. p. 297. ISBN1-58477-631-5.