The Dissolution of the Great Houses

There isn't any legal process behind it essentially again you have Cromwell's men going to the houses one by one and essentially bullying them into dissolving themselves. So no successive act has been passed we've got the one in 1536 but we don't have another one saying okay go and attack the bigger monasteries. No they're all essentially persuaded to surrender and then the process was ratified retrospectively in an act of 1539. I think for a lot of them they saw the writing on the wall for one thing. I think they saw it as something that was inevitable. It's something that gains momentum doesn't it? You have the suppression of smaller houses, you have the execution