Henry VIII1539
Dissolution removes abbots and priors from the Lords, leaving bishops as the remaining Lords Spiritual and making temporal peers the majority.
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Dissolution removes abbots and priors from the Lords, leaving bishops as the remaining Lords Spiritual and making temporal peers the majority.
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