The great sanctuaries comprised Westminster Abbey, and at least thirty other celebrated monasteries,[243] amongst which were St. Martin-le-Grand, Beverley, Hexham, Durham, and Beaulieu, which possessed special charters and immunities.[244] Though traitors, Jews, infidels, and those guilty of sacrilege were not to be received, and though even the peace of a minster might, in the strifes of State, be broken through as in 1398, or evaded as in 1483, yet those within were generally safe from all men. A follower of Jack Cade[245] was protected against the king, and even one of the murderers[246] of the little princes in the Tower found refuge in St. Martin’s Sanctuary.[247] There were whole colonies of these fugitives round the great abbeys already mentioned. “The right of asylum,” says Dean Stanley,[248] “rendered the whole precinct a vast Cave of Adullam for all the distressed and discontented in the metropolis who desired, according to the phrase of the time, to take Westminster.” But the power of the State increased more and more, and the dominion of the Church was sapped away.[249] In 1483 King Henry VII. obtained a Bull from Innocent VIII. which allowed malefactors to be taken from the sanctuaries if it were proved that they had sallied out from them to commit crimes. In 1504 he procured a Bull allowing him to take out persons suspected of treason. In 1534 King Henry VIII. said that lese-majesty was treason, and deprived those guilty of privilege.[250] In 1535 sanctuary persons were forbidden to carry weapons or to go out between sunset and sunrise.[251] In 1540 many sanctuaries were extinguished, and several offences, such as wilful murder, rape, burglary, and arson, were excluded from privilege.[252] The sanctuary at the Abbey was broken up in 1566,[253] and doubtless all the others came to a sudden end upon the dissolution of the monasteries. In 1604 the old rules and laws about sanctuaries were repealed.[254] In the year 1623 all rights of refuge were taken away.[255] The idea lingered in the popular imagination, however, and in 1697 it had to be pointed out by statute that arrests for debt could be made in “pretended privileged places.”[256] These districts (such as the Mint, Suffolk Place, etc.) were alluded to again in 1722,[257] and likewise in 1724[258] as regards Wapping, Stepney, in Middlesex—more than a century after legal abolition.