Motives:
1) Saw monasteries as a threat to his power as the head of the church.
- After the Royal Supremacy, concerned that monks and nuns would ignore loyalty oaths.
- Valor Ecclesiasticus - report by Cromwell to value all church lands
- Comperta - commissioners instructed to look into all moral and spiritual standards of monasteries. Exaggerated widescale corruption.
2) Wanted wealth of church for himself
- Later dissolutions 1539 - closure of 522 larger houses. Richard Rich led Court of Augmentations to deal with property taken from houses and abbeys. Redirection of papal taxes.
3) Knew that the monasteries were corrupt and sinful
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