[frithguild]

The dissolution of the monasteries, which Thomas Cromwell effected for him between 1536 and 1540, broke up the main cells of the Catholic clergy in Henry's realm: it also initiated the greatest change of land ownership in England since the Conquest. Perhaps a quarter of land changed hands, bought by the aristocracy and by a newly emergent gentry and with the revenues going to the Crown.

I think this is a good point. While private property rights were in the ascendancy in England, the Italians were worrying about imprisoning Gallileo because he observed and recorded moons orbiting around Jupiter - which was against the "consensus" perception of the order of the universe.

[Romulus]

private property rights were in the ascendancy in England,

Only for the king's friends. Catholic institutions could be despoiled (all that political muscle doesn't work for free, you know) and Catholic families taxed into ruin.

[1010RD]

You caught it. That’s the whole shebang.