. A short history of England and the British Empire. Tintern Abbey Ruins of a famous Cistercian monastery in Monmouthshire dating from thetwelfth century. It was one of the monasteries suppressed by Henry VIII andThomas Cromwell. After an original drawing by R. Godfrey. grimage of Grace, was also responsible in part for the kingsrenewed persecution. In 1539 parliament added the posses-sions of all such disbanded houses to the kings revenues. In1540, monasticism disappeared from England. Nearly six. CROMWELL AND SUPPRESSION OF MONASTERIES 249 hundred institutions harboring about 10,000 monks an
. A short history of England and the British Empire. Tintern Abbey Ruins of a famous Cistercian monastery in Monmouthshire dating from thetwelfth century. It was one of the monasteries suppressed by Henry VIII andThomas Cromwell. After an original drawing by R. Godfrey. grimage of Grace, was also responsible in part for the kingsrenewed persecution. In 1539 parliament added the posses-sions of all such disbanded houses to the kings revenues. In1540, monasticism disappeared from England. Nearly six. CROMWELL AND SUPPRESSION OF MONASTERIES 249 hundred institutions harboring about 10,000 monks and nunshad ceased to exist. Thus large sums were added to the yearly income of theunthrifty king, but it was not long before the greater part ofthis wealth had passed into other hands. The spoils were em-ployed in various ways. They were used to en-,. • r 1 • 11-111 , Distribution dow university professorships, establish schools, and and use of the build colleges; to improve fortifications, especially monasticalong the Channel shore; to pension homeless monksand nuns; and to finance a new aristocracy. The suppressionof the abbeys reduced matorially the membership in the Houseof Lords, since the abbots office had become extinct; but theplaces of the mitred abbots were taken by members of a newnobility of Henrys own creation to whom monastic lands weregiven outright or sold at absurdly low prices. In this wayHenry was able to tighten his control of the House of Lords. It is impossible to a
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