The Curse Upon Mitre Square — page 71: what you’re looking at

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WHITECHAPEL ROAD BY DAY. 63 and remind them of their starving London brother, they would refuse to recognise the latter, and speak of him as if he were a bastard. Then probably he would go and seek the people of the Hast, and try to find what they had done to deserve such wholesale neglect. He would find a people of good natural character, but hampered by their wretched dwellings, who found it hard to escape from their hideous surroundings; who had waited long for the help that never was forthcoming, and paid too highly for the little which they got ; who did not know what pleasure meant, and had sunk into a deep despair. The ward of Aldgate has perhaps seen more changes than any other portion of the old metro- politan area. The site of the glorious church and monastic buildings of Holy Trinity, it was, in the time of the first narrative, distinguished for its architectural interest. Few, on gazing at the monastery in the earlier part of the -sixteenth century, could have thought it possible that so important and splendid a pile of buildings would in so short a time have almost wholly disappeared. Had it not been for the foul crimes which took place on the most sacred spot in the church of Holy Trinity, probably some part of that building would now exist and be used for the purposes of worship, as is the case with St. Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield, a church contemporaneous with Holy Trinity, though only about a fourth its size. But this was not to be; Monk Martin stamped the GOMIGDoOo gs) (E() m