Between 1536 and 1541, King Henry VIII of England dissolved the monasteries, sending their monks out into the general public.

In 1536, he established the Court of Augmentations to handle the massive windfall to the royal coffers occasioned by the dissolution of the monasteries.

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, Wales and Ireland ; appropriated their income, disposed of their assets, and provided for their former members and functions.

Accordingly Parliament enacted the Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries Act in early 1536, relying in large part on the reports of " impropriety " Cromwell had received, establishing the power of the King to dissolve religious houses that were failing to maintain a religious life ; and consequently providing for the King to compulsorily dissolve monasteries with annual incomes declared in the Valor Ecclesiasticus of less than £ 200 ( of which there were potentially 419 ); but also giving the King the discretion to exempt any of these houses from dissolution at his pleasure.

In 1536, not long after the First Suppression Act commanding the dissolution of lesser monasteries was passed, Leland lamented the spoliation of monastic libraries and addressed Thomas Cromwell in a letter seeking aid for the rescue of books.

By the time it was suppressed by Henry VIII in 1536 as part of the dissolution of the monasteries there were only thirteen monks in the community.

However, the dissolution of the monasteries in 1536 – 41 also affected hospitals and chapels, leaving the town without ecclesiastical coverage except the parish church in nearby Wrawby.

In 1536, for example, the political leader Robert Aske was executed at York Castle on the orders of Henry VIII, following the failure of Aske's Pilgrimage of Grace protest against the dissolution of the monasteries.

It is possible that the roots of the rebellion can – in part – be traced back to the Cornish Rebellion of 1497 and the subsequent destruction of monasteries from 1536 through to 1545 under king Henry VIII which brought an end to the formal scholarship, supported by the monastic orders, that had sustained the Cornish and Devonian cultural identities.

At the start of the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536, there were over 800 monasteries, nunneries and friaries in England.

Between 1536 and 1540, however, Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries, thereby removing the seats of the abbots.

His benefactions, and charters and privileges granted by Henry II, made the Canons wealthy: at the Dissolution of the monasteries in 1536, its revenues were valued at £ 758 5s.

A Celtic monastery was founded on the island in the sixth century, and a Benedictine foundation existed from 1136 until the dissolution of the monasteries in 1536.

By the time it was suppressed by Henry VIII in 1536 as part of the dissolution of the monasteries there were only thirteen monks in the community and the abbey had an annual net income of £ 174.

St Wolstan ’ s after the Archbishop ’ s cousin, also John Alen, who was master of the rolls, travelled with Aylmer to England in 1536 to receive the bill for suppression of the Irish monasteries.

Survival of music from the period in England is sparse because most of it was destroyed during the ransacking of the monasteries carried out between 1536 and 1540 by Henry VIII.

On 13 January 1536, he was appointed deputy or proctor for Cromwell in his capacity as Vicar-General and appointed Visitor of the greater monasteries in Kent and other southern counties, being especially active in the West Country.

The house was suppressed with the smaller monasteries in 1536.

Bragawd was often prepared in monasteries, with Tintern Abbey and the Friary of Carmarthen producing the beverage until Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in 1536.

The abbey was dissolved in 1536 along with the other small monastic houses, in the first phase of Henry VIII's suppression of monasteries.

It was dissolved along with the lesser monasteries, in 1536.

In 1536, with Protestantism in the ascendancy, John Calvin, the founder of Calvinism, became the spiritual leader of the city.

In April 1536 Paul III appointed a commission to devise ways for a reformation, with Contarini presiding.

In 1530, Catherine was banished from court and spent the remainder of her life ( until her death in 1536 ) alone in an isolated manor home, barred from any contact with Mary ( although her ladies-in-waiting helped the two maintain a secret correspondence ).

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Between October 1536 and April 1537 Lady Latimer lived alone in fear with her step-children, struggling to survive.

In July 1536, the first attempt was made to clarify religious doctrine after the break with Rome.

The first attempt was the Ten Articles in 1536, which showed some slightly Protestant leanings – the result of an English desire for a political alliance with the German Lutheran princes.

In Leuven, he worked with Gemma Frisius and Gaspar Myrica from 1535 to 1536 to construct a terrestrial globe, although the role of Mercator in the project was not primarily as a cartographer, but rather as a highly skilled engraver of brass plates.

With Albany once more in France ( where he was to die in 1536 ), Margaret, with the help of Arran and the Hamiltons, brought James, now twelve years old, from Stirling to Edinburgh.

Even so, in early 1536 his mother persuaded him to meet with her brother.

In 1536 Francis I of France allied himself with Suleiman against Charles.

In May 1536 Wyatt was imprisoned in the Tower of London for allegedly committing adultery with Anne Boleyn.

During his stay in the Tower he may have witnessed not only the execution of Anne Boleyn ( May 19, 1536 ) from his cell window but also the prior executions of the five men with whom she was accused of adultery.

In May 1536, Reginald Pole finally and definitively broke with the king.

In 1536 Surrey also served with his father against the Pilgrimage of Grace rebellion protesting the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

This first round of suppressions contributed to popular discontent in the Pilgrimage of Grace of 1536 ; an event which led to Henry increasingly associating monasticism with betrayal, as most of the spared religious houses in the north of England ( more or less willingly ) sided with the rebels ; while former monks resumed religious life in several of the suppressed houses.

The priory was dissolved in 1536, and four of the monks were hanged, along with ten villagers who had supported them.

In 1536, abbey life came to an end with the Dissolution of the Monasteries during the reign of King Henry VIII.

In the 16th century, Fribourg continued to grow, first following the invasion of Waadtland in 1536 with the help of Bern, and then in 1554 through the annexation of land formerly controlled by the Count of Greyerz.

The writer's indignation at finding it treated with silent contempt by the great scholar, who thought it was the work of a personal enemy-Meander-caused him to write a second oration ( published in 1536 ), more violent and abusive, with more self-glorification, but with less real merit than the first.