established the Court of Augmentations, also called Augmentation Court or simply The Augmentation in 1536, during the reign of King Henry VIII of England. It...

Wards. Richard Rich – member of the Privy Council, Chancellor of the Court of Augmentations and from 1547, Baron Rich of Leez. BBC Radio 4 has adapted...

Court of Augmentations head, Richard Rich. Historian George W. Bernard argues that: The dissolution of the monasteries in the late 1530s was one of the...

been lost for centuries. Now an official of the Court of Augmentations has discovered the formula in the library of a dissolved London monastery. When Shardlake...

auditor of the Court of Augmentations under Henry VIII,[citation needed] by his wife Agnes Read. As the Commissioner for receiving the surrender of the monasteries...

The Court of General Surveyors was established during the reign of King Henry VIII of England, along with three other courts (those of Augmentations, First...

finance under the exchequer. The courts of general surveyors and augmentations were fused into a new Court of Augmentations, and this was later absorbed into...

influence of Bishop Gardiner. He was a wealthy man, having acquired several manors and former religious sites distributed by the Court of augmentations after...

(forest courts) for several forests and held Forest Eyres in some of them. Henry VIII in 1547 placed the forests under the Court of Augmentations with two...

1536, he established the Court of Augmentations to handle the massive windfall to the royal coffers from the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Two other...

1546 the Exchequer again increased in power, absorbing the Court of Augmentations and Court of First Fruits and Tenths by 1554. The Exchequer was assisted...

and his son King Edward VI, via the Court of Augmentations. Many Tudor businessmen, such as Thomas Bell (1486–1566) of Gloucester, acquired chantries as...

Rich became the chancellor of the Court of Augmentations, established for the disposal of the monastic revenues. His own share of the spoil, acquired either...

Exchequer, and its related bodies, with those of the Office of First Fruits and Tenths, and the Court of Augmentations, The National Archives, Kew. William Page...

to the Crown (which is considered the foundation of all land ownership) and the Court of Augmentations. This meant the site that would become Buckingham...

by the successful establishment of the Court of Augmentations in 1536, and it followed a similar organisation. The court had a seal and met in quarterly...

father of two daughters. His fortune had been made following the Dissolution of the Monasteries, since as an official of the Court of Augmentations he was...

Court of Augmentations Court of First Fruits and Tenths Court of General Surveyors Court of Wards and Liveries Conciliar courts included the Court of...

appointed General Surveyor of the Court of Augmentations. He was thus an assistant of Thomas Cromwell in administering the surrender of religious houses following...

the Records of the Exchequer, and its related bodies, with those of the Office of First Fruits and Tenths, and the Court of Augmentations. Associated...

wiping out an important element of traditional religion. Former monks were given modest pensions from the Court of Augmentations, and those that could sought...

was a lawyer and served as Clerk of the Court of Augmentations which position assisted him in acquiring large grants of former monastic lands in the West...

chancellor of the court of augmentations. On the resignation of his colleague, he became sole chancellor of the court. In 1546 he was made a member of the Privy...

under-treasurer of the exchequer, chancellor of the Court of Augmentations, Escheator of Surrey and Sussex in 1541–42 and was made Custos rotulorum of Sussex in...

the Court of Augmentations for Gloucestershire, Hampshire and Wiltshire by 1550–1554, and at the Exchequer from 1554 to his death. He was Captain of Portsmouth...

the Dissolution of the Monasteries, at which time he served as a "powerful figure at the Court of Augmentations". He served as a Member of Parliament for...

associate and agent of Thomas Cromwell's, and was Surveyor and Receiver-General to the Court of Augmentations at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries...

Keyme, gentlemen of Lewes, paid £1,154 15 shillings into the Court of Augmentations and obtained possession, along with other property, of 'the site, house...

landholdings being sold-off under the supervision of the Court of Augmentations, the master and brethren of Cobham College surrendered it privately to its...

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