dissolution of the monasteries FC

Question 1

why is financial reasons the most important cause for dissolution

Answer 1

-crown in need of finance - struggled to finance French wars 1522-23 – easy target <10,000 monks sustained 1/5 of land

Question 2

what was Cromwell

Answer 2

vicegenerant

Question 3

net value income of church from valour Ecclesiasticus

Answer 3

£320,000 - £360,000

Question 4

evidence for financial cause:

-what was test of monasteries fitness

Answer 4

-those that failed to fit annual income £200 dissolved under 1536 Act

Question 5

evidence for financial

–> how did some monasteries survive ?

Answer 5

67 survived - pay heavy taxation penalty

Question 6

evidence for religious

Answer 6

monks accused of breaking vows of chastity

Question 7

what was 1539 act of dissolution

Answer 7

larger monasteries

Question 8

who were monks that were murdered ?

Answer 8

may 1535 chartreuse monks -

Question 9

why were charthouse monks murdered ?

Answer 9

• refused to accept act of supremacy

Question 10

the most important reasons for the dissolution of the monasteries was religious

Answer 10

NO - financial

-crown estate in debt – desperately requires injection of income - monasteries untapped resource