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Why and how did Henry dissolve the monasteries? - Coggle Diagram
Why and how did Henry dissolve the monasteries?
WHY: the immorality of the Churches
Cromwell's 1535 commission into the monasteries
bullying tactics were used
Layton and Leigh visited 120 monasteries in 70 days
inaccurate- only 12 out of 181 of the homosexuality claims were true
Results presented in Compendium Compertorum- a lot of corruption was found
Cromwell already knew what he wanted the results of the visitations to be so the commissioners just needed to make them
WHY: new religious ideas
monks and nuns prayed for the dead which seemed to be too auspicious and counterfeit for some Protestants
Henry was still a Catholic, when most of the monasteries had been dissolved, he kept Stixwold and Bisham open to pray for him and Jane Seymour, their heirs and ancestors
WHY; loyalty
Henry felt like some of the nuns and monks were still loyal to the Pope
nearly every monk and nun took the Oath of Succession- 18 monks resisted and were executed
WHY: Money
the main reason for the dissolution
Valor Ecclesiastius was a commission taken out to evaluate the wealth of England monasteries
the money could finance Henry's wars
he wouldn't have to rely on parliament to keep on passing taxation
land taken from the monasteries could be given to the gentry to buy their support
HOW: the first act of dissolution 1536
300 smaller monasteries with income of less than £200 per year were close
some larger monasteries were allowed to stay open
HOW: second act of dissolution of 1537
mainly due to wealth
wasn't passed as a law in order to avoid rebellion
abbots and abbesses were invited to give up their homes
the ones who didnt give them up were forced to by royal decree
it caused rising poverty
monks and nuns made homeless although pensions were available
also because monasteries helped the poor