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Henry VIII's Act of Supremacy and Edward VI's of Uniformity were restored with some modifications, in spite of the opposition of the Catholic bishops, who contended that a nation had no right to deal independently with ecclesiastical matters, and suffered deprivation and imprisonment rather than recognize a schismatic national church.
This continued, and we find that in Henry VIII's time those who visited monasteries and afterward wrote accounts of them call attention to the fact that each monk was occupied either with painting, carving, modelling, embroidering or writing.
Later this method was adopted by Henry VIII's baronial retainers, who ejected the tenants from their estates for the sake of trade profit profit to be gained by exporting wool from the large sheep farms into which they made their private estates.
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