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The monasteries and priories — including the very powerful abbey at Furness — assumed total control over all activities, and the residents became serfs to these new landlords.
The great Catholic abbeys and priories, which had been the backbone of the economy, were destroyed by Henry’s troops; social organization was replaced with terror and confusion.