Dissolution of the monasteries Flashcards
1
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Valor Ecclesiasticus (2)
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- 1535.
- Assed wealth and moral integrity.
2
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First Act of the Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries (3)
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- 1536.
- Houses on less than £200per yr.
- Put reform at centre as smaller houses were seen as the most sinful.
3
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Voluntary surrender (4)
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- 1537-38.
- Essentially an armistice.
- Got large pensions and often a position in the secular clergy.
- Feared being called traitors if they didn’t.
4
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Second Act for the Dissolution of the Monasteries (4)
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- 1538-40.
- Heads of houses implicated in PoG imprisoned by Act of Attainder.
- Some heads volunteered to leave.
- All monasteries were dissolved.
