Effect On England

Question 1

Money

Answer 1

Henry gained an extra £140,000 a year between 1536 and 1547

Question 2

Money went towards

Answer 2

Construction of Henry’s Royal Navy and fortifications along the south coast

Question 3

Henry gained

Answer 3

Loads of land which he sold to over 40,000 people to fund war with France and Scotland

Question 4

Henry

Answer 4

Wasted the money on futile wars

If he’d kept more land he would’ve have more money over the years

Question 5

Monks

Answer 5

7000 pensioned off

Pension scheme cost the treasury £44,000 a year

Question 6

Treatment of monks

Answer 6

Mostly treated well

Abbots lost their seats in parliament

Some wandered as vagabonds

Question 7

Dissolution of monasteries

Answer 7

Increased poverty and unemployment

Worse in the north of England

Question 8

Closures resulted in

Answer 8

Reduction of hospitals, schools and care for the poor

Question 9

Sheep farming

Answer 9

Increased

Enormous profits for the landowners

Needed fewer workers so also led to unemployment

Question 10

Loss of

Answer 10

Art and literature

Beautiful buildings were ransacked