The dissolution of Glastonbury Abbey — the wealthiest monastery in England — and the execution of its elderly abbot Richard Whiting on Glastonbury Tor in 1539 was the most dramatic single act of the dissolution. Whiting refused to surrender voluntarily and was accused of treason on dubious evidence. His execution was a demonstration that resistance to dissolution was futile. Glastonbury became a symbol of monastic martyrdom.
Abbot Whiting and two monks executed on Glastonbury Tor
Royal commission under Lord Russell; armed escort
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