The Curse Upon Mitre Square — page 74: what you’re looking at

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66 THE CURSE UPON MITRE SQUARE. cession of religious houses established by our kings and queens. There was the great Hospital of St. Katherine, . founded by Matilda, Queen of Stephen, and _ rebuilt by the good Philippa; Eastminster Abbey, founded by Edward III.; the Abbey of the Minnies, or Minories, founded by Richard, King of the Romans ; the Friary of the Holy Cross, Crutched Friars ; Millman’s Almshouses; the Hermitage, in Aldgate ; the Papey for Aged Priests, close to Holy Trinity Priory ; and others. Where are all these now? A dock covers the site of one—St. Katharine’s. A writer in the Gentleman’s Magazine in 1829, when this change was effected, pointed out that ‘‘ The worship of God was sacrificed to that of Mammon.” A huge railway runs over the site of another. A third is covered by giant warehouses, and the rest are built over with squalid tenements, where the poor are huddled together like beasts In a pen. There are a few—though very few—smali institu- tions where religion is taught, and from which charity is spread, but ‘what are they among so many ? ” The Whitechapel Road, in the “ year of grace ”’ 1888, is a sort of portal to the filth and squalor of the East. Here begins that dreary region from which healthful and legitimate pleasures seem banished, and hard and ill-paid toil to be the ‘lifelong fate of the inhabitants. Stand in the one broad thoroughfare, Whitechapel Road, and watch the constant stream (E(oy payicel exeyxe) <S €o m