Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1535

Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1535
Act of Parliament
Long titleAn Acte wherby all Relygeous Houses of Monkes Chanons and Nonnes whiche may not dyspend Manors Landes Tenementes & Heredytaments above the clere yerly Value of ii C li are geven to the Kinges Highnes his Heires and Successours for ever.
Citation27 Hen. 8. c. 28
Territorial extent England and Wales
Dates
Royal assent14 April 1536
Commencement4 February 1536
Repealed1 January 1970
Other legislation
Amended by
Repealed byStatute Law (Repeals) Act 1969
Relates toSuppression of Religious Houses Act 1539
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1535 (27 Hen. 8. c. 28), also referred to as the Act for the Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries and as the Dissolution of Lesser Monasteries Act 1535, was an act of the Parliament of England enacted by the English Reformation Parliament in February 1535/36. It was the beginning of the legal process by which King Henry VIII set about the Dissolution of the Monasteries.