Dissolution Flashcards
Why
Allegiance to Rome
Abuses such as marriage
1/4 of income paid to head of house
Conditions of Monastries
In 1530, 825 religious houses 502 for monks and 136 for nuns Open houses in cities Involved in community £160,000 a year (1535) Third of landed property Monastic income 3x crown lands 10,000 men and women in houses
Smaller Monasteries 1536
Dissolved all with revenue of less than £200
300 closed down
67 exempt for being effective
Heads of house given a pension
Monks received a Grant of 20-30 shilling
Goods transported to London to be rented out
Court of Augmentations set up in 1536
Larger Houses, 1538-40
Some charged for involvement in PoG Heads of house tried to sell things Visitations in 1538 Pensions encouraged surrender Act in 1539 just made actions legal Nov 1539 Leigh and Layton told to suppress remaining Waltham Abbey was last in 1540
Resistance
Priory of Lenton wasn’t surrendered but property was forfeited
Abbot of Glastonbury accused of robbing treasures were executed
Effect of Dissolution
Cultural impact- vandalism
Impact on locals (1,500 couldn’t find jobs)
Financial gain for crown (cathedral schools and grammar schools)
Trinity college at Cambridge launched