Furthermore, after 1378, French monasteries (and hence alien priories dependent on them)

maintained allegiance to the continuing Avignon Papacy. Their suppression was supported by the
rival Roman Popes, conditional on all confiscated monastic property eventually being redirected into
other religious uses. The king's officers first sequestrated the assets of the Alien Priories in 1295–
1303 under Edward I, and the same thing happened repeatedly for long periods over the course of
the 14th century, most particularly in the reign of Edward III.[citation needed]
Those Alien Priories that had functioning communities were forced to pay large sums to the king,
while those that were mere estates were confiscated and run by royal officers, the proceeds going to
the king's pocket. Such estates were a valuable source of income for the Crown in its French wars.
Most of the larger Alien Priories were allowed to become naturalised (for instance Castle Acre
Priory), on payment of heavy fines and bribes, but for around ninety smaller houses and granges,
their fates were sealed when Henry V dissolved them by act of Parliament in 1414.[citation needed]
The properties were taken over by the Crown; some were kept, some were subsequently given or
sold to Henry's supporters, others were assigned to his new monasteries of Syon Abbey and the
Carthusians at Sheen Priory; others were used for educational purposes. All these suppressions
enjoyed Papal approval. But successive 15th-century popes continued to press for assurances that,
now that the Avignon Papacy had been defeated, the confiscated monastic income would revert to
religious and educational uses.[citation