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Dissolution of the monasteries in England And Wales |
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King Henry The VIII And His Monasteries
The insurgents were suppressed as ruthlessly as the abbots who refused to suppressed their houses several dissenting monks were tortured and executed. Henry continued with his persecution of his religious opponents. In 1536, an uprising known as the Pilgrimage of Grace broke out in northern England. To appease the rebellious Roman Catholics, Henry agreed to allow Parliament to address their concerns. In 1538, Henry sanctioned the destruction of shrines to Roman Catholic Saints. In 1539, England's remaining monasteries were all dissolved, and their property transferred to the Crown. It is, estimated that 3200 abbeys fell along with friars 1800, and the nunneries, 1560. The buildings were either sold or demolished and their estates land along with other enterprises all sold off or rented out on a huge scale. However, its difficult to really truly to say what really did happen to the land Henry received. Main demolition took place on monastic churches the lead stripped and melted down and sealed with the Kings stamp, and the removal of the church roofs making sure that the monasteries would never return or set up in England ever again. I consider that many of the monasteries were coming to a natural end. The numbers of lay brother and monks dropped due to fashions change or people wise up, as the monasteries grew richer. Henry made a tidy profit of £171,312 from the monasteries and nunneries; even so, many historians think the total was much greater. Although, the money made was far from what Henry would have expected the monasteries had. Not only did this leave a mark in British history that still continues today with Ireland the scars that are left from the past will they ever be peace with religion?
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Bolton Abbey (Augustinian) |
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Waltham Abbey (Augustinian) - the last abbey in England to be dissolved. |
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In England and Wales, King Henry VIII (1509
to 1547) claimed the right to become supreme authority over church
and split with the Rome Catholic Church, he took control on the
monastic life and, on the other, his need for money to fund his
warfare and to cure the ever-mounting debt he had. In 1536, Parliament
Act ordered all the monasteries valued less than £200 per
annum or less, masking the financial motive behind a moral facade.
August 1536 Henry sent out his officials under Cromwell control
(who later lost his head) to visit the monasteries ostensibly to
ensure that they followed royal instructions, but in reality to
assess their wealth and report back to him.