Dissolution of the monasteries

Question 1

How were monasteries acquiring lots of wealth?

Answer 1

Renting out their lands

Question 2

What would the dissolution of the monastics achieve?

Answer 2

• crown would be given more land

- monks were also potential threats to royal supremacy

Question 3

What did Cromwell do in 1535?

Answer 3

Cromwell sent out surveys for the values of ecclesiastical lands and the standard of monasteries.
Discovered it had the chance of doubling crowns income

Question 4

What did 1536 confirm?

Answer 4

The dissolution of smaller monasteries, with the exception of monasteries that bribed officials to overlook them

Question 5

What did 1539 confirm?

Answer 5

Dissolution of larger monasteries

Question 6

What did the sale of monastic lands finance for Henry?

Answer 6

Campaigns in France and Scotland

Question 7

What did they promise the wealth from dissolutions would do?

Answer 7

Used to establish colleges and other social benefits

Question 8

What else did the census reveal?

Answer 8

That spiritually the monasteries were in poor condition