The Curse Upon Mitre Square — page 53: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

‘RUMOURS OF THE APPARITION. 45 worked in the stables which were built up with the few rounded arches and Norman columns, relics of the once glorious church of Holy Trinity. The spot reported to be haunted was just outside the stable, furthest from the court, exactly where the altar steps of the church had formerly existed. The ghost was said to appear on this spot between twelve and one at night on certain days, and mutter strange warnings, and in other ways disport himself as is the wont of ghosts. All the people in the district firmly believed the story, except the jolly host of the ‘‘ Mitre’; but there were diverse opinions as to” the day or days of the appearance, some contending that they had seen it on Sunday nights, others—the majority—on Mondays. Now though Railton was the only sceptic, and thus formed a party by himself, the other people- of Aldgate Ward formed themselves into two factions— those who believed in the Monday appearance—the men engaged in the stables and a few others—and those who swore that Sunday was the ghost’s night. A wag from town, when told of the affair, had declared that the majority were Sunday believers, because, being virulent anti-Papists, they wished to think the monk had broken the Sabbath law, the wag adding that this fact exercised the people’s minds more than the murder, which they held to be an ordinary occurrence with the priests of old. However this may be, party feeling ran high, and Railton was wont to declare the Monday folk would sooner believe in no ghost at all than that it should GOmMmIiGooo (E(0) mn <S