In 1534 CE, King Henry VIII of England split with the Catholic Church and declar J himself head of the Church of England, in part because Pope Clement VII refused to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon Two years later,Henry VIII introduced a policy titled the Dissolution of the Monasteries that by 1540 had resulted I in the closure of all Catholic monasteries in England and the confiscation of their estates. Some historians assert that the enactment of the policy was primarily motivated by perceived financial opportunities. Which quotation from a scholarly article best supports the assertion of the historians mentioned in the text? Choose 1 answer: A "At the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries , about 2 percent of the adult male population of England were monks; by 1690, the proportion of the adult male population who were monks was less than 1 percent." B "In 1535, the year before enacting the Dissolution of the Monasteries , Henry commissioned a survey of the value of church holdings in England-the work performed by sheriffs, bishops and magistrates, began that January and was swiftly completed by the