A New Revised and Corrected Edition of
FRANCIS AIDAN GASQUET’S
Henry the Eighth and the
English Monasteries.
(Of which Six Editions at 24s. have already been sold.)
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. |
| V. | The Visitation of Monasteries in 1535-36. |
| 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.
Some Press Notices.