The accompanying disendowment of church funds provided substantial sums for the relief of Irish poverty. |
Both questioned the value of indulgences and pilgrimages, promoted the use of the vernacular in preaching, attacked clerical corruption, and even advocated disendowment. |
Lollards got caught for challenging eucharistic teaching and calling for disendowment. |
The disendowment of hospitals was even more injurious to the poor. |
But these were the one-off fruits of the disendowment of the Church, a windfall which was unrepeatable on the same scale. |
During the next decade, Lloyd George campaigned in Parliament largely on Welsh issues and in particular for disestablishment and disendowment of the Church of England. |