Causes for dissolution of monastries 1536

money
1. felt the churches were becoming more powerful
2. wanted to clear his own debts
wanted to break away from catholic church
1. form a new protestant church
angry at the way the pope was dealing with his divorce form Cathrine of aragon
demolision
1. small monastries
  1. henry was going to dissolve 400 small monastries
    1. hen the monks fought back so henry dissollved them all
wars
1. henry wanted huge wars against france and scotland
Cromwell
1. in charge of thee disolution
  1. sent spies to the monastries
    1. to see how they run,how much they earnt etc
      1. came back with bias infomation
henry felt the country was on his side
1. there was rumours that monks and nuns weren't abiding by there laws
monastries with a income of less than £200
1. were closed

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