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The Court of Augmentations, also called Augmentation Court or simply The Augmentation, was established during the reign of King Henry VIII of England along with three lesser courts (those of General Surveyors, First Fruit and Tenths, and Wards and Liveries) following the dissolution of the monasteries. Its primary function was to gain better control over the land and finances formerly held by the Roman Catholic Church in the kingdom. It was incorporated into the Exchequer in 1554 as the augmentation office.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_Augmentations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dissolution_of_the_Monasteries
The Court of Augmentations, also called Augmentation Court or simply The Augmentation, was established during the reign of King Henry VIII of England along with three lesser courts (those of General Surveyors, First Fruit and Tenths, and Wards and Liveries) following the dissolution of the monasteries. Its primary function was to gain better control over the land and finances formerly held by the Roman Catholic Church in the kingdom. It was incorporated into the Exchequer in 1554 as the augmentation office.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_Augmentations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dissolution_of_the_Monasteries
Destruction of Roche Abbey after the Suppression of the Monasteries
On 23 June 1538, Abbot Henry Cundall of Roche Abbey in South Yorkshire and his 17 monks gathered in their chapter house to surrender their abbey to the king’s commissioners. Roche was one of the many larger religious houses which ‘voluntarily’ surrendered that year, in the course of Henry VIII’s Suppression of the Monasteries.
The monks, cast out of their comfortable abbey with small pensions, had to make the most of what they had.
Each monk had been given the cell in which he slept, ‘wherein there was nothing of value save his bed and apparel’. One monk tried to sell his cell door for two pennies, ‘which was worth more than five shillings’. But the potential buyer refused, ‘for he was a young man, unmarried, and in need of neither a house nor a door’.
It was not just the monks’ meagre possessions that were up for grabs. As at other monasteries, after the monks were dismissed, Henry VIII’s agents arrived to make the abbey buildings unusable, planning an orderly dismantling and auction. But while the demolition was in progress, a mob descended on Roche and a free-for-all pillage began.
It would have pitied any heart to see what tearing up of the lead there was, and plucking up of boards, and throwing down of the rafters … and all things of price, either spoiled, plucked away or defaced to the uttermost.
Eventually only the magnificent fragments of the church crossing remained upstanding.
The Suppression of Roche Abbey | English Heritage .
The Court of Augmentations, also called Augmentation Court or simply The Augmentation, was established during the reign of King Henry VIII of England along with three lesser courts (those of General Surveyors, First Fruit and Tenths, and Wards and Liveries) following the dissolution of the monasteries. Its primary function was to gain better control over the land and finances formerly held by the Roman Catholic Church in the kingdom. It was incorporated into the Exchequer in 1554 as the augmentation office.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_Augmentations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dissolution_of_the_Monasteries
The Court of Augmentations, also called Augmentation Court or simply The Augmentation, was established during the reign of King Henry VIII of England along with three lesser courts (those of General Surveyors, First Fruit and Tenths, and Wards and Liveries) following the dissolution of the monasteries. Its primary function was to gain better control over the land and finances formerly held by the Roman Catholic Church in the kingdom. It was incorporated into the Exchequer in 1554 as the augmentation office.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_Augmentations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dissolution_of_the_Monasteries
Destruction of Roche Abbey after the Suppression of the Monasteries
On 23 June 1538, Abbot Henry Cundall of Roche Abbey in South Yorkshire and his 17 monks gathered in their chapter house to surrender their abbey to the king’s commissioners. Roche was one of the many larger religious houses which ‘voluntarily’ surrendered that year, in the course of Henry VIII’s Suppression of the Monasteries.
The monks, cast out of their comfortable abbey with small pensions, had to make the most of what they had.
Each monk had been given the cell in which he slept, ‘wherein there was nothing of value save his bed and apparel’. One monk tried to sell his cell door for two pennies, ‘which was worth more than five shillings’. But the potential buyer refused, ‘for he was a young man, unmarried, and in need of neither a house nor a door’.
It was not just the monks’ meagre possessions that were up for grabs. As at other monasteries, after the monks were dismissed, Henry VIII’s agents arrived to make the abbey buildings unusable, planning an orderly dismantling and auction. But while the demolition was in progress, a mob descended on Roche and a free-for-all pillage began.
It would have pitied any heart to see what tearing up of the lead there was, and plucking up of boards, and throwing down of the rafters … and all things of price, either spoiled, plucked away or defaced to the uttermost.
Eventually only the magnificent fragments of the church crossing remained upstanding.
The Suppression of Roche Abbey | English Heritage .
