After some 25 years of work, his Theory of the Earth ; or an Investigation of the Laws observable in the Composition, Dissolution, and Restoration of Land upon the Globe was read to meetings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in two parts, the first by his friend Joseph Black on 7 March 1785, and the second by himself on 4 April 1785.

Curiously, under Henry VIII, a documented Miles Forrest was granted King's favours as found in English historical documents: After the Dissolution, the manor of Morborne, with the house and grange of Ogerston in the same parish, lately the property of the Abbey of Crowland, was granted in 1540, with all appurtenances, to Miles Forrest, bailiff of the Abbot of Peterborough at Warmington in 1535.

After Henry VIII ordered the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539, the manuscript was separated from the priory ( Backhouse 2004 ).

After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the people of Tewkesbury saved the abbey from destruction in 1539: Insisting it was their parish church, which they had the right to keep, they bought it from King Henry VIII for the value of its bells and lead roof which would have been salvaged and melted down, leaving the structure a roofless ruin.

After the Dissolution, the bell-tower was used as the gaol for the borough until it was demolished in the late 18th century.

After the Dissolution the majority of the buildings at the site, with the exclusion of the gatehouse, were demolished.

After the Dissolution the east part of the church was demolished and a tower built at the west end of the nave.

After the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1540, Henry VIII took for himself the land belonging to Westminster Abbey, including the convent garden and seven acres to the north called Long Acre ; and in 1552 his son, Edward VI, granted it to John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford.

After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, control of Brownsea passed to the Crown.

After the Dissolution, the west range consisting of the Abbot's own apartments was converted into a house and was home to the Tracy family in the seventeenth century, but these buildings were later demolished and now all that remains are a few low arches in a meadow with outlines in the grass.

After the Dissolution this area became William Paulet's private apartments.

After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Whitley was held under the Crown for a time.

After the Dissolution of the Monasteries under King Henry VIII, several religious communities formed in Continental Europe for English Catholics.

After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, these lands were given to Christchurch College, Oxford.

After the Dissolution of the Monasteries it became royal property and passed through several hands before being sold to Langley for 850 £.

After 1539, however, only the archbishops and bishops continued to attend, for the Dissolution of the Monasteries suppressed the positions of abbot and prior.

After the Dissolution, two of the Abbey's manors in Wiltshire were sold by the Crown to John Thynne and thereafter descended in his family, who much later became Marquesses of Bath.

After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Edward VI re-founded the school in 1550 as King Edward's school, a free grammar school for local boys.

After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the buildings were pulled down and nothing now remains above ground.

After the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539, Horsforth was partitioned and sold to five families, one was the Stanhopes who achieved supremacy and controlled the village for the next 300 years.

After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, many priceless and ancient manuscripts that had belonged to the monastic libraries began to disseminate among various owners, many of whom were unaware of the libraries ' cultural value.

After the Dissolution the village became an estate of the Lawrence family, an ancestor of whom married the heiress of a branch of the Washington family, from another branch of which descended George Washington.

After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, it became the town hall, council chamber ( until 1904 when new buildings were built ), courts and was used for banquets or any celebrations for the town.

After the Dissolution a twenty-one years ' lease of " the site of the manor with the appurtenances and all land and fisheries belonging, together with 20 acres in Shorefield ," was in 1557 granted to John Wavell, and in 1574 a similar lease was granted to John Rowe.

After the fall of Pagan, the Mon language again became the lingua franca of independent Mon kingdom of Hanthawaddy Bago ( 1287 – 1539 ) in the present day Lower Burma.

After this step his nomination as cardinal was published and he received the red hat in a Consistory held on 10 March 1539, with title as Cardinal Deacon of the Church of San Ciriaco alle Terme Diocleziane ( a title soon transferred to the Church of Santi Quirico e Giulitta ).

After the dissolution of Reading Abbey in 1539, the school fell under the control of the corporation of Reading, its status being confirmed by Letters Patent issued by Henry VIII in 1541.

After the conquest of Vaud in 1536 by Bern, Morges became the center of a bailiwick in 1539.

After its closure in 1539, it became the manor house of West Llantwit owned by Edward Stradling.

After Isabella's death in 1539 Cabezón was appointed music teacher to her children: Prince Felipe and his sisters Maria and Joan ( Maria would later become the most important patron of composer Tomás Luis de Victoria ).

After its dissolution in 1539, the monastery and its extensive lands were granted to the Lambart family.

After the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539 by Henry VIII, the Abbey buildings and over of land were sold by the Crown to Sir Richard Gresham, a merchant.

After the abandonment of the Lake Jackson site the chiefdom seat was moved to Anhaica ( rediscovered in 1987 by B. Calvin Jones and located within DeSoto Site Historic State Park ), where in 1539 it was visited by the Hernando de Soto entrada, who knew the residents as the historic Muskogean-speaking Apalachee people.

After his father's death in 1539 he returned to Bassano del Grappa and permanently set up residence there, even taking a local woman, Elisabetta Merzari, as his wife in 1546.

After the dissolution of Syon Abbey in 1539 Mountjoy granted asylum at his London house to the pious, learned, and outspokenly conservative priest Richard Whitford, who had been patronized by his father.

After Maurice came of age, in 1539, his parents began to look for a wife for him.

After the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539 the property was held by the crown.

After the War of the Holy League in 1537 against the Ottoman Empire, a truce between Venice and the Ottomans was created in 1539.

After 1539 the estate which was called Little Park was used by Henry VIII as a base for hunting.

After the dissolution of the monastery in 1539, the majority of the buildings were demolished, leaving only the stone and timber-framed building still standing and two low wings on the west side which were demolished in 1848.

After the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539 it went into private ownership.