Dissolution of the Monasteries
Not Just the Tudors
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The Dissolution of the Monasteries
Money is the go-to answer because there was so much money. I think also there's issues around power and also from Henry's point of view fear. Henry wasn't wrong necessarily to be concerned about opposition from the monastic orders. The orders who seemed to oppose Henry in his activities were the ones that everyone regarded as the most morally upright, he says.
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