This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...1536--1539. Note 113. The dissolution of monasteries, the stronghold of the wealth, training, and discipline of the clergy, was a death blow to the mediaeval Church of England. The confiscated land was, for the most part, distributed among the small landholders who dominated the House of Commons in parliament. The ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...1536--1539. Note 113. The dissolution of monasteries, the stronghold of the wealth, training, and discipline of the clergy, was a death blow to the mediaeval Church of England. The confiscated land was, for the most part, distributed among the small landholders who dominated the House of Commons in parliament. The wealth thus acquired made this class, henceforth, the strongest power in English politics. (20). Trial, condemnation, and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn on charges of treasonable misconduct. (21). Immediate marriage of Henry with Jane Sey mour; birth of a prince (afterward King Edward VI); death of Queen Jane, 1537. (22). Doctrinal innovations not contemplated by Henry in his religious policy. (a). Unavoidable connection between the anti-papal church of England and the anti-papal national churches of the Continent. (b). The name Protestant generally applied to the national churches of Germany after 1529. (c). Strong Protestant tendencies of Cromwell and the only clergymen who could be relied upon to enforce the Act of Supremacy; consequent protestantizing of the English Church; the "great Bible"; the "ten articles" of faith. (S3). Discontent of the adherents of the Roman church kept down by force; the revolt of the north (known as the "Pilgrimage of Grace"), 1537; its rigorous suppresion by Cromwell. (24). Reaction in favor of the Roman Catholics shown in the parliament of 1638; the "Six Articles" of faith reaffirming Catholic belief; Henry induced by Cromwell to ally himself with the Protestant princes of Germany and to marry a German princess, Anne of Cleves, 1540; Henry dissatisfied with his new wife, his allies, and with Cromwell. (25). Cromwell abandoned by the king to his enemies of the Catholic party;...
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