Social and economic impacts of the dissolution of the monasteries

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Religious houses offered hospitality for pilgrims and charity for the old and infirm
- Monasteries had supplied alms for the poor and destitute
  - Monasteries had been employers of large numbers of farm workers- stimulus for the local economy
(S) Argued that removal of this and other charitable incomes mounted to 5% of net monastic income
- (S) "sturdy beggars" that plagued late Tudor England lead to crime and instability
- Social and economic consequences
  - (S) Saved impressive churches, turned into Cathedrals EG Bristol, Gloucester, Chester and Westminster
    - (S) Loss of great abbeys like Glastonbury and Fountains
  - (E) Others bought by their local communities: to be able toserve parish churches
  - (E) Vast amounts of monastic property were sold quickly, at far less than market value

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