# The dissolution of the monasteries

Author: Hibbert, Francis Aidan, 1866-1933

Genre: Category: History - British

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73403

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+dissolution+of+the+monasteries+Hibbert&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

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 examples we are given the instance that “two hundred poor were fed daily at the house of Thomas Cromwell.” Moreover, we are assured that “there was little fear of an abuse of such license.” Yet presently we find the monasteries censured in the severest language for their demoralising charity, and picturesquely and forcibly condemned as “nurseries of dishonest mendicancy.” No explanation is vouchsafed as to why the alms of...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dissolution-of-the-monasteries-73403/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dissolution-of-the-monasteries-73403/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dissolution-of-the-monasteries-73403/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dissolution-of-the-monasteries-73403/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dissolution-of-the-monasteries-73403/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dissolution-of-the-monasteries-73403/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dissolution-of-the-monasteries-73403/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dissolution-of-the-monasteries-73403/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 4 of table](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dissolution-of-the-monasteries-73403/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dissolution-of-the-monasteries-73403/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 3 of table](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dissolution-of-the-monasteries-73403/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 3 of table TEMPORAL](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dissolution-of-the-monasteries-73403/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Part 2 of table](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dissolution-of-the-monasteries-73403/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 3 of table](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dissolution-of-the-monasteries-73403/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 1 of table](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dissolution-of-the-monasteries-73403/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 1 of table](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dissolution-of-the-monasteries-73403/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 2 of table](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dissolution-of-the-monasteries-73403/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 3 of table](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dissolution-of-the-monasteries-73403/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 1 of table SPIRITUAL](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dissolution-of-the-monasteries-73403/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 2 of table](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dissolution-of-the-monasteries-73403/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 1 of table](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dissolution-of-the-monasteries-73403/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 2 of table TEMPORAL](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dissolution-of-the-monasteries-73403/chapters/17/index.md)