Which 1536ΓÇô1541 process, overseen by Thomas Cromwell, dissolved hundreds of monastic houses and transferred their wealth and lands to the Crown?

• A Suppression of the Chantries
• B Pilgrimage of Grace
• C Valor Ecclesiasticus
• D Dissolution of the Monasteries ✓

The dissolution saw over 800 religious houses closed; abbots who resisted were executed and monastic buildings were stripped, with many falling into ruin that still marks the landscape.