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The Priory Church of St Mary

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The Priory Church of St Mary
The Priory Church of St Mary
The Priory Church of St Mary
The Priory Church of St Mary
The Priory Church of St Mary
The Priory Church of St Mary
The Priory Church of St Mary
The Priory Church of St Mary
The Priory Church of St Mary
The Priory Church of St Mary
The Priory Church of St Mary
The Priory Church of St Mary
The Priory Church of St Mary
The Priory Church of St Mary
The Priory Church of St Mary
Phone:
+44 1262 672221

Address:
| Bridlingtonu2019s Old Town, Bridlington YO16 7JX, England

The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England and Wales and Ireland, appropriated their income, disposed of their assets, and provided for their former personnel and functions. Although the policy was originally envisaged as increasing the regular income of the Crown, much former monastic property was sold off to fund Henry's military campaigns in the 1540s. He was given the authority to do this in England and Wales by the Act of Supremacy, passed by Parliament in 1534, which made him Supreme Head of the Church in England, thus separating England from Papal authority, and by the First Suppression Act and the Second Suppression Act . Professor George W. Bernard argues: The dissolution of the monasteries in the late 1530s was one of the most revolutionary events in English history. There were nearly 900 religious houses in England, around 260 for monks, 300 for regular canons, 142 nunneries and 183 friaries; some 12,000 people in total, 4,000 monks, 3,000 canons, 3,000 friars and 2,000 nuns. If the adult male population was 500,000, that meant that one adult man in fifty was in religious orders.
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