 | William Cobbett - 1832 - 270 sivua
...when they enabled him to confiscate the smaller monasteries, declared, that in the " great and solemn monasteries, (thanks be to God) religion is right well kept and observed." It seemed, therefore, to be a work of some difficulty to discover (in so short a time after this declaration... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 sivua
...two hundred pounds, the same statute affirms that, in the " great solemn monasteries of this realm, thanks be to God, religion is right well kept and observed." The smaller houses were destroyed, according to the statute, through the ardent desire of the King's most... | |
 | Cardinal Francis Aidan Gasquet - 1889 - 532 sivua
...actually serve, as the basis of the king's " declaration " to parliament in 1536. They are the compertes of his " late visitation." The singular want of honesty...read aloud in justification of the intended measure "t of confiscation. If the -entirely on Ap Rice's letter of November 11, 1535 (Wright, 85), and are... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1899 - 444 sivua
...when they enabled him to confiscate the smaller monasteries, declared that in the " great and solemn monasteries (thanks be to God) religion is right well kept and observed." It seemed, therefore, to be a work of some difficulty to discover (in so short a time after this declaration... | |
 | Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones - 1900 - 268 sivua
...credible information, considering also that diver s great and solemn monasteries of this realm wherein, thanks be to God, religion Is right well kept and observed." The preamble goes on to say that these great and solemn monasteries, not possessing their full number of... | |
 | David Herbert Somerset Cranage - 1926 - 192 sivua
...preamble of the Act of 1 5 36 speaks of "divers and great solemn monasteries of this realm, wherein, thanks be to God, religion is right well kept and observed." The usual way of proceeding was to persuade the monks to resign, with promises of pension or preferment.... | |
 | 188 sivua
...preamble of the Act of 1536 speaks of "divers and great solemn monasteries of this realm, wherein, thanks be to God, religion is right well kept and observed." The usual way of proceeding was to persuade the monks to resign, with promises of pension or preferment.... | |
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The singular want of honesty in this assurance to parliament is apparent. Henry professed to go by the evidence of his visitors. Their comperta included the greater monasteries with the less in wholesale condemnation. The preamble of the act, passed on... 