500 religious houses, many of which had stood for centuries, were dissolved.
There was serious opposition in the North of England: the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536.
There was a huge turnover and sale of land. Cromwell set up the Court of Augmentations run by Richard Rich, which handled goods and land confiscated by the king.
The Crown sold off much of the land quite quickly as it needed ready money.
The opportunity to put Crown finances on a more secure footing in the long term was lost.
Henry and Cromwell showed off the power of the Crown. Monasteries, which were not widely unpopular or corrupt, were destroyed in just four years.
Although Parliament passed the two Acts, it effectively rubber-stamped what Henry wanted.
In 1536, Parliament was persuaded that monasticism as a whole was not under threat, when it was.