Dissolution of monasteries and religious change from 1529
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- Dissolution of monasteries and religious change from 1529
- Reasons for dissolution 1536-1540
- Henry claimed it was due to corruption
- Visitations influenced unfavourable reports
- Clearly exaggerated but Henry probably believed them
- Government said corrupt comatries could be put to better use
- Such as colleges, schools or hospitals
- Visitations influenced unfavourable reports
- Real reason = their wealth
- Henry was in financial difficulty + needed the money
- Valor Ecclesiasticus (report) clearly showed wealth of Church
- Henry claimed it was due to corruption
- Why dissolution was so easy
- Monastic weaknesses
- Most isolated + unarmed
- Some persuaded they would be changed for better
- Into colleges + hospitals
- Most had no idea what was coming
- Some thought they could pay a fine + be spared
- Government strengths
- Propaganda stressed wholesale dissolution was not intended
- King just wanted to weed out corruption
- Landowners saw chance to gain land
- Abbots offered pensions
- Monks + Nuns offered financial compensation
- Propaganda stressed wholesale dissolution was not intended
- Monastic weaknesses
- Impact of dissolution
- 500 religious houses dissolved
- Serious opposition in North England
- Pilgrimage of Grace 1536
- Huge land sale turnover
- Got Crown money quick
- No financial support longterm
- Got Crown money quick
- Many monks + nuns left homeless
- Amount of enthusiasm for religious change
- Active support for Protestantism
- Small scale but powerful
- In 1530s when King became a reformer
- Small scale but powerful
- Tyndale translated bible into English
- Burnt at the stake
- Lambert executed for denying real presence in 1539
- Only a few bishops = clearly Protestant reformers in 1530s
- They were arrested
- Cranmer moved slowly in direction of doctrinal Protestantism
- Cromwell = prime mover in break with Rome, dissolution of monasteries etc
- King remained in control
- Anne Boleyn sympathetic towards reform
- Active support for Protestantism
- Lukewarm response to religious change
- Some believed changes only temporary
- Erastians + Pragmatists
- Believed King was influenced by evil councellors
- Erastians + Pragmatists
- Nobility remained loyal to the Crown
- But they were not enthusiastic about changes
- Some believed changes only temporary
- Active opposition to religious change
- Passive
- Thomas More opposed Henry's control of Church
- Refused to sign Act of Succession with no reason
- Executed
- Refused to sign Act of Succession with no reason
- Thomas More opposed Henry's control of Church
- Holy Maid of Kent
- Elizabeth Barton (a nun) had visions against Henry
- Executed
- Elizabeth Barton (a nun) had visions against Henry
- Bishop Fisher
- Henry's godfather
- Spoke out in favour of Catherine
- Carthusians
- Denounced King's supremacy
- Denounced King's supremacy
- Passive
- Pilgrimage of Grace
- Main reason = opposition to Henrican Reform
- Also had problems with high taxation
- 30,000 rebels
- Led by Robert Aske
- Gentry, landowners + peasants all involved
- King able to raise 8,000 troops under Norfolk
- Most serious rebellion in Tudor period
- Reasons for failure
- King + Norfolk appeared to agree with rebel demands
- Rebels trusted + believed in the King
- Henry never seriously considered what Rebels wanted
- Rebels trusted + believed in the King
- Did not spread
- King + Norfolk appeared to agree with rebel demands
- Main reason = opposition to Henrican Reform
- The Exeter Conspiracy 1538
- Imaginary opposition
- The men were probably not potting against Henry but victims of his paranoia
- Those involved executed for treason
- Reasons for dissolution 1536-1540
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