Penny Dreadfuls, 1899 · page 15 of 86
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THE CURSE UPON MITRE SQUARE. —_—_—_ > & ¢o@<____—— BOOK I. THE TRAGEDIES IN THE CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, ALDGATE. CHAPTER I. THE NEOPHYTE. T' was curious that, notwithstanding their power and wealth, their well acknowledged munificence, and their good fortune in other respects, the monks of Holy Trinity Church, Aldgate, were but ill at -ease in the year of grace 1530. All that. monks | wished for they possessed. The Priory was, with the exception of Westminster, the most superb monastic institution in Middlesex. In its revenues were included the whole ward of Portsoken, four parish churches acknowledged its authority, and its privileges far exceeded those of any institution of the like kind, with the one exception named above. CONNIE MOCO KS (E@) m ‘