2-619-311 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Henry VIII Monk Hunting, 1850. A satirical illustration on the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The Dissolution of the Monasteries was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII (1491–1547) disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England, Wales and Ireland and took their income and assets. From The Comic History of England by Gilbert Abbott A. Beckett, illustrated by John Leech [Bradbury, Agnew & Co., London, 1850.]