“Templar. Periodically kings would try to bring land that had been carelessly alienated back into the royal portfolio. Henry VIII’s policy of recycling it all in a single (or double) tranche of dispossessions led to a new religion and a new phenomenon called the middle class; it saved the Tudor monarchy from bankruptcy, even if that policy is implicated in the outbreak of civil wars in the 1640s.”
― The King in the North: The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria
― The King in the North: The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria
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