Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1535

Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1535[1]
Act of Parliament
Parliament of England
Long titleAn Acte wherby all Relygeous Houses of Monkes Chanons and Nonnes whiche may not dyspend Manors Landes Tenementes & Heredytaments above the clere yerly Value of ii C li[a] are geven to the Kinges Highnes his Heires and Successours for ever.[2][3]
Citation27 Hen. 8. c. 28
Dates
Royal assent14 April 1536
Other legislation
Repealed by
Status: Repealed
Ruins of Binham Priory a house
suppressed by the Act

The Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1535,[1] also referred to as the Act for the Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries[4] and as the Dissolution of Lesser Monasteries Act 1535,[5][6] was an Act of the Parliament of England enacted by the English Reformation Parliament in February 1535/36. It was the beginning of the legal process by which King Henry VIII set about the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

  1. ^ a b The citation of this Act by this short title was authorised by section 5 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1948. Owing to the repeal of those provisions, it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
  2. ^ These words are printed against this Act in the second column of Schedule 2 to the Statute Law Revision Act 1948, which is headed "Title".
  3. ^ Luders, Alexander (1810–1828). The statutes of the realm, vol.3 : Printed by command of his majesty King George the Third, in pursuance of an address of the House of Commons of Great Britain. From original records and authentic manuscripts. Dawsons of Pall Mall.
  4. ^ Hardy, William John (1910). Documents Illustrative of English Church History. London: Macmillan. p. 257.
  5. ^ Phillip Hughes, A Popular History of the Reformation (Image Books. 1960), p 185.
  6. ^ Frank McLynn, The Road Not Taken: How Britain Narrowly Missed A Revolution (Random House, 2012, ISBN 1446449351), p. 89


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