Make this more neutral: the predominant academic opinion is that the extensive care taken to provide for monks and nuns from the suppressed houses to transfer to continuing houses, demonstrates that monastic reform was still, at least in the mind of the king, the guiding principle; but that further large-scale action against under-performing richer monasteries was always envisaged.
the predominant academic opinion is that the extensive care taken to provide for monks and nuns from the suppressed houses to transfer to continuing houses, demonstrates that monastic reform was still, at least in the mind of the king, the guiding principle; but that further large-scale action against richer monasteries was always envisaged.