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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...
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  • The dissolution of the monasteries in Portugal was a nationalization of the property of male monastic orders effected by a decree of 28 May 1834 enacted...
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  • 1541 List of monasteries dissolved by Henry VIII of England Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries Act 1535 Tudor conquest of Ireland Dissolution (chemistry)...
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  • the monasteries, the book follows the lawyer Shardlake in his attempts to solve the murder of one of Thomas Cromwell's commissioners in the monastery at...
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  • Shardlake series (category Cultural depictions of Henry VIII)
    Tombland. The seventh book, Tombland, was published in October 2018. The books cover several historical events, such as the Dissolution of the monasteries (1536–1541)...
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    Henry VIII's break with the Catholic Church, the dissolution of the lesser monasteries, and the policies of the King's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, as...
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    Supreme Head of the Church of England. This involved the Dissolution of the Monasteries in England and Wales: the assets of hundreds of rich religious...
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    Henry was an extravagant spender, using proceeds from the dissolution of the monasteries and acts of the Reformation Parliament. He converted money that was...
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    The Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1535, also referred to as the Act for the Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries and as the Dissolution of Lesser...
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    monasteries into "places of study and good letters, and to the continual relief of the poor", but this was not done. In 1536, the Dissolution of the Lesser...
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    Anchorite (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    Written evidence supports the existence of 780 anchorites on 600 sites between 1100 and 1539, when the Dissolution of the Monasteries ordered by Henry VIII...
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    Henry VIII's dissolution of the English church's ties to Rome, and his subsequent closing of the monasteries. Even with the closure of the island's priory...
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    Shardlake (TV series) (category Television series set in the 16th century)
    April 2024, just four days before the series premiere. During the dissolution of the monasteries in the Tudor era, the physically handicapped barrister...
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  • Reformation in Ireland (category History of Christianity in Ireland)
    – and in 1537 introduced legislation into the Irish Parliament to legalise the closure of monasteries. The process faced considerable opposition, and...
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    Dissolution of monasteries under the Russian Partition and Congress Poland - the dissolution of Catholic monasteries carried out in the nineteenth century...
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  • control of the Crown. This evident amassing of assets was one of the pretexts used by King Henry VIII to order the Dissolution of the Monasteries in England...
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    Chew Magna (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    banks of the River Chew and reflecting the reduced wealth of the established church from the Dissolution of the Monasteries onwards. Around 1700 the Lord...
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  • into 'water of St James' 1539 – Monks stashed it in an old iron chest and hid it in the Abbey walls during the Dissolution of the Monasteries 1786 – Unearthed...
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    the dissolution of the monasteries, which controlled much of the richest land. He disbanded religious houses, appropriated their income, disposed of their...
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  • 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...
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    Abbots Bromley (category Borough of East Staffordshire)
    affiliated to the Abbey till the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1545. Henry VIII gave Bromley Abbatis to Sir William Paget, Clerk of the Signet and Privy...
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    he established the Court of Augmentations to handle the massive windfall to the royal coffers from the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Two other important...
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    the Gospels into the English language. The Gospels may have been taken from Durham Cathedral during the Dissolution of the Monasteries ordered by Henry...
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  • Dissolution of the Monasteries. In the second half of the 15th century at least three generations of the Curson (or Curzon) family, descendants of the Kedleston...
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    dean after the Dissolution of the Monasteries. A full list of the priors and Deans and Canterbury is given in A History of Canterbury Cathedral, ed. P. Collinson...
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  • Blackfriars, London (category Districts of the City of London)
    Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII. The priory was by legal process dissolved in 1538 under Henry's dissolution of the monasteries. Katherine Parr, Henry's sixth...
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  • starting in the west of England, preparatory to dissolution of the Monasteries. 4 October – publication of Myles Coverdale's complete Bible translation into...
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    Egham (category Borough of Runnymede)
    chosen for its proximity to the King's residence at Windsor. Under the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the early 16th Century, the major, formerly ecclesiastical...
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    Bayley Lane (category History of Coventry)
    Chester between 1088 and 1147. The economic stagnation of the city between the dissolution of the monasteries in 1540s, and the 19th century has enabled several...
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  • Secularization (church property) (category 16th century in the Holy Roman Empire)
    to church property. The Dissolution of the Monasteries in England began in 1536 under Henry VIII of England. While some monasteries were simply abolished...
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