[mass55th]

"What he did do was order the monasteries and convents closed."

Perhaps I should have used the term dissolution of the monasteries when speaking of Henry VIII's destruction of property/buildings/monastic libraries, many of which consisted of abbeys and priories owned by those same monasteries. He was after the wealth and property of the Catholic Church.

Dissolution of the Monasteries

List of monasteries dissolved by Henry VIII:

Monasteries Dissolved by Henry VIII of England

[Marchmain]

Yer right of course! What do people think Downton Abbey was!?