Some jurisdictions of a like nature in England were also abolished this session.
* 27 Henry VIII.c.

28.
** Burnet, vol.i.p.

193.
*** It is pretended, (see Holingshed, p.

939,) that ten thousand monks wore turned out on the dissolution of the lesser monasteries.

If so, most of them must have been mendicants; for the revenue could not have supported near that number.