Text Appearing Before Image: Tintern Abbey Ruins of a famous Cistercian monastery in Monmouthshire dating from the twelfth century. It was one of the monasteries suppressed by Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell. After an original drawing by R. Godfrey. grimage of Grace, was also responsible in part for the kings renewed persecution. In 1539 parliament added the possessions of all such disbanded houses to the kings revenues. In1540, monasticism disappeared from England. Nearly six Text Appearing After Image: CROMWELL AND SUPPRESSION OF MONASTERIES 249 hundred institutions harboring about 10,000 monks and nuns had ceased to exist. Thus large sums were added to the yearly income of the unthrifty king, but it was not long before the greater part of this wealth had passed into other hands. The spoils were employed 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 monastic along the Channel shore; to pension homeless monks and nuns; and to finance a new aristocracy. The suppression of the abbeys reduced materially the membership in the House of Lords, since the abbots office had become extinct; but the places of the mitred abbots were taken by members of a new nobility of Henrys own creation to whom monastic lands were given outright or sold at absurdly low prices. In this way Henry was able to tighten his control of the House of Lords. It is impossible to a
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