Dissolution of Monasteries- commencing 1534

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Key Events
1535- Valor Ecclesiasticals is carried out
1536- First Act of Dissolution dissolve small mon
1536- Court of Augmentations (Richard Rich) set up to collect mon revenue
1538- Cromwell and agents dissolve larger mon
1540- Waltham Abbey surrenders
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Political Consequences
-Abbots lost seats in Parliament
- monasteries land sold off to fund war, bought by nobles and merchants
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Economic Consequences
-sheep farming increased but less workers needed
-dissolutions provided Henry £140,000 (usual income £100,000)
-7,000 monks pensioned £44,000 a year
-money available for Royal Navy
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Social Consequences
-increase in homelessness and poverty from loss of jobs
-closure resulted in reduction of schooling, care for poor and hospitals
-loss of art and culture
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Causes
-Henry needed money for war with France
-claimed monks and nuns were sinful
-Thomas Cromwell- low born, responsible for 10 Articles and Act of Supremacy
-1534 Act of Supremacy
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-Abbots lost seats in Parliament
- monasteries land sold off to fund war, bought by nobles and merchants

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Political Consequences

Card 3

Front

-sheep farming increased but less workers needed
-dissolutions provided Henry £140,000 (usual income £100,000)
-7,000 monks pensioned £44,000 a year
-money available for Royal Navy

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

-increase in homelessness and poverty from loss of jobs
-closure resulted in reduction of schooling, care for poor and hospitals
-loss of art and culture

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

-Henry needed money for war with France
-claimed monks and nuns were sinful
-Thomas Cromwell- low born, responsible for 10 Articles and Act of Supremacy
-1534 Act of Supremacy

Back

Preview of the back of card 5

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