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​Henry VIII,the Reign

By Mark Holinshed
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​In March 1533, Henry promised that he would repair the insult to Kings Henry II and John, who had been tricked into offering the realm in tribute to the Holy See. He was also determined to reunite the crown with the goods churchmen had appropriated from it.
 
Letters & Papers No 235 1533 Volume 6, dated 15 March 1533


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​1535 The Valor Ecclesiasticus
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The Act of Supremacy was passed on 3 November 1534 and in early 1535 a valuation of the church, the Valor Ecclesiasticus was commissioned
​1535 The Visitation

A Visitation, an audit, of the administration of the church in England, Wales and Ireland began in the summer of 1535 and concentrated on the counties to the west of London as far as Bristol
1535 The Royal Progress

The Royal Progress – the summer royal tour – ran alongside the visitation. west towards Bristol and included visits to many leading anti – clerical gentry. Its purpose was to undermine the papacy, demoralise the monastic institutions and emasculate the Boleyn faction
1536 Act for the Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries
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Legislation that ordered monasteries with an income of less than £200 a year to be dissolved and their property transferred to the Crown.
1536 "The Courte of thAugmentacions of the Revenues of the Kinges Crowne"
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The government formed a new department called ‘the Courte of thAugmentacions of the Revenues of the Kinges Crowne’, to look after in income from the dissolved monasteries


1536 The Pilgrimage of Grace 

The Pilgrimage of Grace, an uprising that began in Lincolnshire in October 1536, before spreading to other parts of Northern England including Yorkshire, Cumberland, Northumberland and North Lancashire. It was a protest against the break with the Roman Catholic Church, the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and the new government led by Thomas Cromwell and Edward Seymour

The rebellion failed and in early 1537 the government sought retribution against the larger monasteries


1537 Surrender of the Larger Houses

In the wake of the Pilgrimage of Grace the ringleaders, some of which were monks from houses in the north of England, were arrested and executed.
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The retribution that was exacted led to many hundreds of monasteries giving up their abbey deeds to the crown by signing a document of surrender and delivering up the monastery seal. In most cases there was also a financial inducement to the monks to leave peacefully
1539 Act for the Dissolution of the Greater Monasteries
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The Act for the Dissolution of the Greater Monasteries provided for the dissolution of the monasteries which remained open 
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1540 Waltham, 


The last abbey, Waltham was closed in March 1540 and the Dissolution of the Monasteries was complete
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