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Dissolution of the Monasteries, the
     
Dissolution of the Monasteries, the
the closing of all the monasteries in England in the 1530s, during the Reformation. King Henry VIII ordered the monasteries to be closed, and sold their property in order to increase his own wealth and power.
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