English Parliament passes the Chantries Act
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- Editors
Short Note 
The English Parliament met, sitting until 14th March the following
year. It passed a Chantries Act, which suppressed more than 2000 of
these institutions. As well as being associated of Catholic
doctrines of purgatory, however, they often provided crucial
educational services through their priests, and this was lost as a
result of the new law. John Hales also introduced a bill to reform
abuses in the enclosure of common land in England, but this was
quashed.