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The dissolution of the monasteries, occasionally referred to as the suppression of the monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541, by which Henry VIII disbanded Catholic monasteries, priories, convents, and friaries in England, Wales, and Ireland; seized their wealth; disposed of their assets, and provided for their former personnel and functions.
These monasteries were dissolved by King Henry VIII of England in the dissolution of the monasteries. The list is by no means exhaustive, since over 800 religious houses existed before the Reformation, and virtually every town, of any size, had at least one abbey, priory, convent or friary in it.
The monasteries, being landowners who never died and whose property was therefore never divided among inheritors (as happened to the land of neighboring secular land owners), tended to accumulate and keep considerable lands and properties - which aroused resentment and made them vulnerable to governments confiscating their properties at times of religious or political upheaval, whether to fund ...
The Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1535, [1] also referred to as the Act for the Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries [4] and as the Dissolution of Lesser Monasteries Act 1535, [5] [6] was an Act of the Parliament of England enacted by the English Reformation Parliament in February 1535/36.
The abbey was closed in 1536, as part of the dissolution of the monasteries. Nine years later the surviving structures, together with the manor of Norton, were purchased by Sir Richard Brooke, who built a Tudor house on the site, incorporating part of the abbey. This was replaced in the 18th century by a Georgian house. The Brooke family left ...
The Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1539 [1] (31 Hen. 8.c. 13), sometimes referred to as the Second Act of Dissolution [3] or as the Act for the Dissolution of the Greater Monasteries, [4] [5] was an Act of the Parliament of England.
Durham Priory was a Benedictine priory associated with Durham Cathedral, in Durham in the north-east of England.Its head was the Prior of Durham.It was founded in 1083 as a Roman Catholic monastery, but after Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1540 the priory was dissolved and the cathedral was taken over by the Church of England.
The King appropriated their income, disposed of their assets, and provided for their former members and functions through a set of administrative and legal processes known as The Dissolution of the Monasteries. As a chief commissioner of the Dissolution, Layton was occupied in the east and south of England, managing the surrender of various abbeys.