Category: History - British
In one of the earlier chapters of a brilliantly written history[1] dealing with the sixteenth century the glory of English hospitality is enlarged upon. It was a time, we are told, “when every door was opened to a request for a meal or a night’s lodging,” and among other examp...
In one of the earlier chapters of a brilliantly written history[1] dealing with the sixteenth century the glory of English hospitality is enlarged upon. It was a time, we are to...
2. CHAPTER IIThe Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII is popularly represented as an isolated act, standing alone in the nation’s history. Except that it was on an exceptionally larg...
3. CHAPTER IIIWhen the assembly, which has gained for itself the name of the Reformation Parliament, met, the air was full of rumours of attacks upon the clergy. The French Ambassador reporte...
4. CHAPTER IVFor the sake of following up the story of the downfall of Calwich in a connected form it has been necessary to omit the mention of much that meanwhile had been happening. Bishop...
5. Part 1 of table+-----------------------------------------------|| | TEMPORALITIES. || +----------------+-------------+----------------++ | Receipts | Expenditure | Balance || Brewood Nunnery |...
6. Part 2 of table+----------------------------------------|| | SPIRITUALITIES. || +-----------+--------------+-------------++ | Receipts | Expenditure | Balance || Brewood Nunnery | | | || Burto...
7. Part 3 of table+----------------------------------------------------- | TOTAL. +----------------+---------------+------------------++ | Receipts | Expenditure | Balance || Brewood Nunnery | 11...
8. Part 4 of table+------------- | TOTAL. +------------- |Tithe Paid Brewood Nunnery | 1 2 2 Burton-on-Trent 1st| =26 15 5= | „ „ 2nd| 41 4 6 Croxden | 9 0 7 Dieulacres | 22 14 6 Dudley Priory (C...
9. CHAPTER VMany causes had combined to undermine the stability of the religious houses. Their pecuniary usefulness to Pope and King tended to make them the shuttlecock of politics. Their e...
10. Part 1 of table+--------------------------+---------------------+ | Demesne | Meadows | | 1 2 | 1 2 | ----------------------+-------------+------------+----------+----------+ _Staffordshire:_...
11. Part 2 of table+----------------------------+------------------------+ | Lands and tenements | Chief Rents | | 1 2 | 1 2 | ----------------------+------------+---------------+-----------+-----...
12. Part 3 of table+---------------------+--------------------- | Court | Manor | 1 2 | ----------------------+----------+----------+---------+----------- _Staffordshire:_ | | | | Shobnal Grange--...
13. Part 1 of table| Tithes | Oblations | | 1 2 | 1 2 | --------------------------------|--------+----------+--------+----------+ Burton-on-Trent |£23 0 0 |£=33 0 0= | | | St. Modwen’s Chapel at A...
14. Part 2 of table| Church and Glebe | Church | | 1 2 | 1 2 | --------------------------------|--------+----------+--------+----------+ Burton-on-Trent | | | | | St. Modwen’s Chapel at Andrasia |...
15. Part 3 of table| Pensions | 1 2 --------------------------------|--------+---------- Burton-on-Trent | | St. Modwen’s Chapel at Andrasia | | Abbots Bromley | | Ilam | | Blithfield |£1 0 0 | £=...
16. Part 1 of table SPIRITUAL+----------+----------+----------++ | King | | || |(Sheriff’s| Corrody |Officials || | Aids) | | || -----------------------+----------+----------+----------++ | £ s. d. | £ s. d...
17. Part 2 of table TEMPORAL+----------+----------+------------+ | | | | | Bishop’s | Dean and |Archdeacon’s| | fees | Chapter | fees | -----------------------+----------+----------+------------+ | £ s. d....
18. Part 3 of table TEMPORAL+----------+----------+----------+---------- | Churches | and | Alms |Education | | Chantry | | -----------------------+----------+----------+----------+---------- | £ s. d. | £...
19. CHAPTER VIThe old market town of Brewood stood on the western border of the county, and for centuries the Bishops of Lichfield had possessed a manor there. On the Shropshire side of the t...
20. CHAPTER VIIWe have already perceived that the eyes of Henry VIII were being gradually and steadily opened to the financial possibilities of the clergy. To confiscate the whole of their wea...
21. CHAPTER VIIIMeanwhile the harrying of the houses continued, and the feeling of uncertainty deepened. It became more and more evident that the whole monastic edifice was falling. The dissolu...
22. CHAPTER IXWe do not propose to enter into a discussion of the principles which were involved in the Dissolution of the Monasteries, or of the religious and moral loss and gain which ensue...