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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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    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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    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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    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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    administered as a sub-monastery of the Durham priory. Smaller monasteries are often referred to as priories while larger monasteries are more commonly referred...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    during the Middle Ages, but many were closed during the Protestant Reformation, the Dissolution of the Monasteries under King Henry VIII, the French Revolution...
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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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    Bucklebury to the Cluniac Reading Abbey, which retained it until it lost all its lands to the Crown with the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1540. Wooden...
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    Hinchingbrooke House (category Commons link is defined as the pagename)
    for the undervalued price of £19.9s.2d. while he was an official Visitor overseeing the dissolution of the monasteries. A fireplace discovered in the building...
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    happenstance. Before the dissolution of the monasteries that occurred as part of the Reformation, the choice had often been made by the monks living in Canterbury...
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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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    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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    for the former residents. The properties were sold to pay for the wars. Historian George W. Bernard argues: The dissolution of the monasteries in the late...
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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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  • in 1537 during the dissolution of the monasteries, the book follows the lawyer Shardlake in his attempts to solve the murder of one of Thomas Cromwell's...
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    Abbots Bromley (category Borough of East Staffordshire)
    focus for events on Horn Dance Day. The village remained affiliated to the Abbey till the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1545. Henry VIII gave Bromley...
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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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    Tudor period (category History of the United Kingdom by period)
    1536 protesting the religious reforms of Henry VIII, his dissolution of the monasteries and the policies of the King's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell...
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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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    projects on the Somerset Levels. The abbey was suppressed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries under King Henry VIII of England. The last abbot,...
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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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    Richard Williams (alias Cromwell) (category People associated with the Dissolution of the Monasteries)
    suppressing the Pilgrimage of Grace insurrection. During the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Sir Richard was appointed one of the Visitors of the religious...
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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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