Vale Royal was the largest Cistercian abbey in Cheshire, founded by Edward I in fulfillment of a crusade vow. Its dissolution in 1538 required persistent pressure by commissioners. The abbey's dissolution reshaped Cheshire's landed society and ended a major centre of Catholic culture and literacy in the northwest. It typified the hundreds of lesser dissolutions that followed the dramatic punitive suppressions of 1537.
Royal dissolution commission
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