caa a22 4500 386314810 CHVBK 20180307111602.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198812 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3678970 doi S0080440100013190 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/3678970 Cross Claire Monasticism and Society in the Diocese of York 1520-1540 [Elektronische Daten] [Claire Cross] ON TRIAL for his life in the spring of 1537 for his part in the Pilgrimage of Grace Robert Aske from the Tower supplied a retrospective explanation of northen resentment at the dissolution of the monasteries, at that stage still very much in progress and nowhere near completion. Of all the recent changes in religion, he in particular grudged against the statute of suppressions, and so did all the country, because the abbeys in the north gave great alms to poor men and laudably served God: in which parts of late days they had small comfort by ghostly teaching. And by the said suppression the service of God is much minished, great number of masses unsaid and consecration of the sacrament now not used in those parts, to the decrease of the faith and spiritual comfort to man's soul, the temple of God ruffed and pulled down, the ornaments and relics of the church irreverently used, tombs of honourable and noble men pulled down and sold, no hospitality now kept in those parts Also the abbeys was one of the beauties of this realm to all men and strangers passing through the same; also all gentlemen much succoured in their needs with money, their younger sons there succoured and in nunneries their daughters brought up in virtue, and also their evidences and money left to the uses of infants in abbeys' hands, always sure there Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1988 Transactions of the Royal Historical Society Cambridge University Press 38(1988-12), 131-145 0080-4401 38<131 1988 38 RHT https://doi.org/10.2307/3678970 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3678970 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Cross Claire NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Transactions of the Royal Historical Society Cambridge University Press 38(1988-12), 131-145 0080-4401 38<131 1988 38 RHT CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge