Augmentation, Court of

In English history, a court set up by Henry VIII in 1536 and dissolved in 1554. Its object was to manage the revenues and possessions of all monasteries under £200 a year, which by a previous act had been given to the king, and to determine lawsuits relating to these.

The full name of this court was ‘the Court of the Augmentation of the revenues of the King's Crown’. It was a court of record, with one great seal and one privy seal.