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THE KING'S GREAT MATTER - DESTRUCTION OF CATHOLIC INFRASTRUCTURE -…
THE KING'S GREAT MATTER - DESTRUCTION OF CATHOLIC INFRASTRUCTURE
DISSOLUTION OF THE MONASTERIES
TC commissioners inspected each monastery to make dissolution seem legal/based on moral or spiritual abuses
Act for Dissolution of Smaller (less than 200) then Larger monasteries in 1536 and 1539
Gap between dissolutions due to backlash i.e. Pilgrimage of Grace
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE DISSOLUTION
removed 825 religious houses
removed communities' sources of employment, healthcare, education, worship
Crown came into great wealth, used mostly for wars rather than Reformation
removed potential sources of Catholic resistance to Reformation
INITIAL MEASURES
Act of First Fruits and Tenths
bolstered Crown economy to pay for Reformation
Valor Ecclesiasticus
spiritual standards
monetary value
carried out by TC commissioners
CONCLUSIONS
although Valor Ecclesiasticus and the anti-clerical feeling in much of government made the dissolution viable legally, its main objective was to remove bases of potential resistance or contradictions to the Henrician Reformation
Cromwell's ability to make the Reformation 'legal' diminished the backlash that came after