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Following Henry's inability to receive an annulment from Katherine in order to marry Anne Boleyn, he pressured a conclave of bishops into making him Supreme Head of the Church in England. His Lord Chancellor, Cromwell, acting on dubious reports of abuses in the monasteries, closed most of them down and confiscated its property for the crown.

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