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	Suppression of English Monasteries under Henry VIII
		From any point of view the destruction of the English monasteries by Henry VIII must be regarded as one of the great events of the sixteenth century.
		It is well to remember this, as it throws an interesting and somewhat unexpected light upon the first dissolutions: the monasteries were doomed prior to these visitations, and not in consequence of them, as we have been asked to believe according to the traditional story.
		We are consequently compelled by this fact to accept as history the account of the matter given in the preamble of the first Act of dissolution: namely that the measure was passed on the strength of the king's "declaration" that the charges against the smaller houses were true, and on that alone.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/m/monasteries_under_henry_viii,suppression_of.html (3332 words)

	Monastery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The communal life of a Christian monastery is called cenobitic, as opposed to the anchoretic (or anchoritic) life of an anchorite and the eremitic life of a hermit.
		Saint Saba organized the monks of the Judean Desert in a monastery close to Betlehem (483), and this is considered the mother of all monasteries of the Eastern Orthodox churches.
		Buddhist monasteries, known as vihara, emerged sometime around the fourth century BCE, from the practice of vassa, the retreat undertaken by Buddhist monks and nuns during the South Asian rainy season.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Monastery (2112 words)

	Dissolution of the Monasteries - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Dissolution of the Monasteries, referred to by Roman Catholic writers as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the formal process by which King Henry VIII confiscated the property of the monastic institutions in England between 1538 and 1541.
		Many of the dismantled monasteries and friaries were sold for nominal amounts (often to the local townspeople), and some of the lands the King gave to his supporters; there were also pensions to be paid to some of the dispossessed clerics.
		The rebels called for an end to the dissolution of the monasteries, for the removal of Cromwell, and for Henry's daughter, and eldest child, the Catholic Mary to be named as successor in place of his younger son Edward.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Monasteries (2016 words)

	Suppression of English Monasteries under Henry VIII
		The rules and regulations of the monastery were set by the prior and chapter, the head of the monastery and his chosen council.
		The monastery offered these poor people a few nights stay for free within their rooms, while the monastery infirmary was used as a hospital for sick people from the towns as well as for poorly monks.
		Monasteries were looked upon in England, at the time of Henry's breach with Rome, as one of the great bulwarks of the papal system; the monks had been called "the great standing army of Rome".
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Documents/suppression_of_english_monasteri.htm (7560 words)

	The Later Middle Ages and the Dissolution of the Monasteries
		The Suppression of the English Monasteries Under Henry VIII
		Dissolution of the monasteries and chantries: sources in the public records office; see also Sources of history for religious houses and their lands
		Dissolution of the Monasteries on the Continent: Zwingli's Reformation
	www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu /~dvess/ids/medieval/dssolut.html (334 words)

	SUPPRESSION OF THE ENGLISH MONASTERIES DURING THE REIGN OF KING HENRY THE EIGHTH
		The dissolution of all monasteries after his death, and the distribution of their lands among the new adventurers.
		The English Church in the Sixteenth Century from the Accession of Henry VIII to the Death of Mary.
		The English Parish Clergy on the Eve of the Reformation.
	www.peterwestern.f9.co.uk /monasteries.htm (13515 words)

	The dissolution of the monasteries
		The dissolution of the monasteries, and other government intervention in ecclesiastical affairs, met with opposition in a series of uprisings in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire and other northern counties between October 1536 and February 1537.
		When the larger monasteries were dissolved in 1538, their total worth was 140,000 pounds a year, almost half the annual revenue of the church.
		The Blackfriars had been a monastery, and thus was still considered outside the jurisdiction of the City of London, even though it was within the city walls: thus plays could be performed there despite the opposition of the puritan city fathers.
	ise.uvic.ca /Library/SLT/ideas/monasteries.html (338 words)

	Wikinfo \| Dissolution of the Monasteries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Dissolution of the Monasteries was the formal process, in 1536-1540, by which King Henry VIII confiscated the property of the Roman Catholic institutions in England for himself as the new head of the Church of England.
		In 1534 King Henry had Parliament authorize Thomas Cromwell, a layman, to "visit" all the monasteries (which term includes abbeys and convents), ostensibly to make sure their members were instructed in the new rules for their supervision by the king instead of the pope, but actually to inventory their assets.
		The monks and nuns in the monasteries were sinful "hypocrites" and "sorcerers" who were living lives of luxury and engaging in every kind of sin there was.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Dissolution_of_the_Monasteries (510 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Suppression of Monasteries in Europe
		This decree applied to all monasteries, whether of women or of men, judged useless by the standards of Josephinism; their revenues were taken to increase the salaries of the secular priests or for pious establishments useful to
		The Swiss monasteries were exposed to pillage and ruin during the wars of the Revolution.
		France inspired with her anti-religious tendencies the new governments established by Napoleon, Church property was confiscated; monasteries and convents were suppressed, though congregations devoted to the care of the sick and to the instruction of
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10453a.htm (2295 words)

	Dissolution of the Monasteries
		The monasteries were rich, and a lot of that wealth found its way directly or indirectly to the royal treasury.
		One of the results of the Dissolution of the Monasteries is that those who bought the old monastic lands were inclined to support Henry in his break with Rome, purely from self interest.
		The real beneficiary of the Dissolution was not the king, but the new class of gentry who bought the lands.
	www.britainexpress.com /History/Dissolution_of_the_Monasteries.htm (434 words)

	Dissolution of the monasteries - Simple English Wikipedia
		Modern drawing of one of Oliver Cromwell's visitors leaving a monastery.
		The Dissolution of the monasteries was when English King Henry VIII took away things that the Roman Catholic church owned.
		It was also when Henry VIII made himself the new head of the Church of England.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dissolution_of_the_monasteries (151 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Suppression of English Monasteries Under Henry VIII
		good name of some at least of the monasteries, by these chosen emissaries of Cromwell are, it must be confessed, sufficiently dreadful, although even their reports certainly do not bear out the modern notion of wholesale corruption.
		All are, to use a common expression, "tarred with the same brush"; all, that is, are equally smirched by the filthy suggestions of Layton and Leigh, of London and Aprice.
		matter given in the preamble of the first Act of dissolution: namely that the measure was passed on the strength of the king's "declaration" that the charges against the smaller houses were true, and on that alone.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10455a.htm (4181 words)

	::The Reformation::
		The English Reformation was to have far reaching consequences in Tudor England.
		The smaller monasteries were shut down by 1536 while the larger and more valuable ones were shut by 1540.
		Some monastery buildings were reduced to ruin as the local population was allowed to take what they wanted as long as the silver and gold in the monastery went to the Crown.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /reformation.htm (1226 words)

	Dissolution of the Monasteries
		At the beginning of the 16th century monasteries owned well over a quarter of all the cultivated land in England.
		Monastery land was seized and sold off cheaply to nobles and merchants.
		When Henry made up his mind to destroy the monasteries and nunneries, it was not hard for him to find out many bad things which could truly be said of the monks and nuns, and which he could use as an excuse for taking away their property.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TUDmonasteries.htm (622 words)

	English Heritage Properties, Northumberland, UK - Visit Alnwick
		Founded by St Aidan in ad635, the monastery was transformed by the figure of Saint Cuthbert.
		From the end of the 8th century, the isolated island with its wealthy monastery proved easy prey for Viking raiders and the monks of the priory were driven out.
		The small community then lived on Holy Island until the dissolution of the monasteries in 1537.
	www.visitalnwick.org.uk /explore/english_heritage.htm (1866 words)

	The Dowry of Mary: The English Church on the Eve of Reformation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		A fixture of the medieval English parish church almost totally swept away by the reformation was the rood screen.
		Terror was everywhere struck into the minds of the people by the sight of the executions, fixed for the market days, of priests dangling from the steeples of their parish churches, and the heads of laymen set up in the high places of the towns.
		One of the justifications used by Henry for the dissolution of the monasteries was the corrupt and dissolute lives of the monks and nuns.
	www.sspx.ca /Angelus/1988_May/Dowry_Mary.htm (4228 words)

	English Period And Style
		The monasteries post-dissolution woodworker had become utterly depraved; the flower of the craft had turned to the new maner, the Renaissance, the new style from France and Italy.
		English furniture work, weither of the sixteenth or the seventeenth century, varies little, if at all.
		During this period English canvas work is also influenced by the designs of woven tapestries, particularly in professional work.
	www.tapisseriedefrance.fr /000600.seat_history.fr.htm (5273 words)

	USCweb Search Results
		English Monasteries on the Eve of Dissolution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1909).
		Calendar of the patent and close rolls of chancery in Ireland, of the reigns of Henry VIII., Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth (Dublin: A. Thom and sons, for H. Stationery office, 1861-1862).
		Notes for the history of the monasteries and convents at Rome from the V through the X Century in Studi di antichitá cristiana (Rome: Pontificio istituto di archeologia cristiana...
	www.usc.edu:8766 /uscweb/query.html?col=&ht=0&qp=&qs=&qc=&pw=99%25&la=en&charset=iso-8859-1&si=0&fs=http%3A//mm.usc.edu/bibliographia/detail.php%3Ffunction%3Dview%26id%3D2897&qt=+&ex=&rq=0&oq=&ws=0&qm=0&ql=&st=11&nh=10&lk=1&rf=1 (385 words)

	English Monasteries - ClanBrandon Books
		A history of English philanthropy from the Dissolution of the Monasteries to the taking of the first Census Benjamin Kirkman Gray — Item may not be in stock.
		English Monks and the Suppression of the Monasteries Geoffrey Baskerville — RRP: £12.99
		English Monks and the Suppression of the Monasteries (Bedford Hist.
	www.clanbrandon.co.uk /book-shop/english+monasteries.htm (571 words)

	Medieval Abbeys and Monasteries in England
		In 1147 the monastery became Cistercian, and the entire abbey was rebuilt in stone.
		After the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539 the abbey property was sold and the abbey left to decay.
		The abbey underwent its final destruction in 1539 as part of Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries.
	www.britainexpress.com /Where_to_go_in_Britain/Abbeys_and_Monasteries/Abbeys1.htm (724 words)

	The English Revolution 1640 by Christopher Hill
		Now, it is true that the English Revolution of 1640, like the French Revolution of 1789, was a struggle for political, economic and religious power, waged by the middle class, the bourgeoisie, which grew in wealth and strength as capitalism developed.
		Though most English people before 1640 worked in the fields, changes no less important than those we have described were taking place in trade and industry, changes, indeed, which gave the impetus to the agrarian developments.
		Since the dissolution of the Monasteries, the remaining possessions of the Church of England were coveted by a section of the gentry.
	www.marxists.org /archive/hill-christopher/english-revolution (17677 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: The Suppression of Glastonbury Abbey
		Under Henry VIII, in the most successful land grab in English history, Henry VIII and his chief minister Thomas Cromwell suppressed the monasteries.
		To maintain political support, Henry, Edward, and later Elizabeth awarded monastic lands to members of the English aristocracy (hence the number of English Stately homes called "Abbey").
		This disbursal of Church lands meant that the entire English upper class was committed to maintaining separation from Rome, and "Protestantism" became a defining feature of English national identity.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/h8-glastonbury.html (445 words)

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		The Greyfriars, Canterbury, is the remains of a small monastery founded in 1236 by the Franciscan friars sent by St Francis to set up the first Franciscan community in Britain.
		The rest of the monastery was ruined after the dissolution of the English monasteries in 1538.
		Foundations of a large church, dormitories, cloister and kitchen have been located beneath the site and a significant lay cemetery lies beneath our school playground.
	atschool.eduweb.co.uk /cantpeg/gbgb/stpeters (225 words)

	USCweb Search Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Henry VIII and the English Monasteries: An Attempt to Illustrate the History of their...
		Henry VIII and the English Monasteries: An Attempt to Illustrate the History of their Suppression (London: J. Hodges, 1888-89).
		The English Premonstratensians in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society [Royal Historical Society.
	www.usc.edu:8766 /uscweb/query.html?col=&ht=0&qp=&qs=&qc=&pw=99%25&la=en&charset=iso-8859-1&si=0&fs=http%3A//mm.usc.edu/bibliographia/detail.php%3Ffunction%3Dview%26id%3D2897&qt=+&ex=&rq=0&oq=&qm=1&ql=&st=1&nh=10&lk=1&rf=1 (328 words)

	English Reformation Sources
		Act for the Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries, 1536
		Act for the Dissolution of the Greater Monasteries, 1539
		Reasons why the Lord's board should be after the form of a table than of an altar, 1550
	members.shaw.ca /reformation (218 words)

	Find in a Library: Bare ruined choirs : the dissolution of the English monasteries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Find in a Library: Bare ruined choirs : the dissolution of the English monasteries
		Bare ruined choirs : the dissolution of the English monasteries
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	www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/49a3b71533cd2241.html (80 words)

	Book Review
		Known in the court system for his hunchback, Shardlake and his clerk travel to the Benedictine cloister to make inquiries amongst close-mouthed individuals filled with animosity towards the outsiders.
		Using historical facts and real persona from the period of “Dissolution of the English Monasteries” (1536-1540), C.J. Sansom provides readers with a vivid Tudor historical mystery.
		The background is so descriptive it overwhelms the prime theme of a well-written who-done-it in spite of interweaving tidbits into the plot.
	www.allreaders.com /BookRView.asp?BRID=46033 (288 words)

	Anglican Communion News Service
		And these misconceptions loom large as obstacles in the path toward more general public recognition for members of religious orders in the Anglican Communion, said Sister Rosina.
		After the dissolution of the English monasteries by King Henry VIII in the 16th century, monastic vocations were virtually absent from the Anglican Communion for a period of nearly 300 years.
		"Even after the dissolution of the monasteries, the memory of monks and nuns persisted among English Christians," said Bishop Jones.
	anglicancommunion.org /acns/lambeth/lc069.html (875 words)

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