Final Phase of the Monastic Dissolution

Timeline

1. 1540Monasteries throughout England · EnglandIn 1540 the government closed the last surviving great monasteries, including institutions such as Westminster Abbey that had previously been granted deferrals. Monastic property was valued and transferred to the royal court; monks were forced to return to secular life or relocate.
2. 1541Westminster · LondonIn 1541 Parliament and the Privy Council completed the final reorganization of monastic property: six new bishoprics, including Westminster, Oxford, and Peterborough, were established from former monastic lands, incorporating some church property into the national church system, marking the substantive end of the monastic system in England.