Contents
Chap
I. The Dawn of Difficulties.
II. Cardinal Wolsey and the Monasteries.
III. The Holy Maid of Kent.
IV. The Friars Observant and the Carthusians.
VI. The Parliament of 1536 and the suppression of the Lesser Monasteries.
VII. The “Comperta Monastica” and other charges against the Monks.
VIII. Thomas Cromwell, the King’s Vicar-General.
IX. The chief accusers of the Monks—Layton, Legh, Ap Rice, and London.
X. The Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries.
XI. The Rising in Lincolnshire.
XII. The Pilgrimage of Grace.
XIII. The Second Northern Rising.
XIV. Dissolution by Attainder.
XV. The Suppression of Convents.
XVI. Fall of the Friars.
XVII. Progress of the General Suppression.
XVIII. The Three Benedictine Abbots.
XIX. The Monastic Spoils.
XX. The Spending of the Spoils.
XXI. The Ejected Monks and their Pensions.
XXII. Some Results of the Suppression.
Appendix: Accounts of the Augmentation Office, &c. General Index.
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