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1
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why is financial reasons the most important cause for dissolution

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-crown in need of finance - struggled to finance French wars 1522-23 – easy target <10,000 monks sustained 1/5 of land

2
Q

what was Cromwell

A

vicegenerant

3
Q

net value income of church from valour Ecclesiasticus

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£320,000 - £360,000

4
Q

evidence for financial cause:

-what was test of monasteries fitness

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-those that failed to fit annual income £200 dissolved under 1536 Act

5
Q

evidence for financial

–> how did some monasteries survive ?

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67 survived - pay heavy taxation penalty

6
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evidence for religious

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monks accused of breaking vows of chastity

7
Q

what was 1539 act of dissolution

A

larger monasteries

8
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who were monks that were murdered ?

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may 1535 chartreuse monks -

9
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why were charthouse monks murdered ?

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  • refused to accept act of supremacy
10
Q

the most important reasons for the dissolution of the monasteries was religious

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NO - financial

-crown estate in debt – desperately requires injection of income - monasteries untapped resource