Faith AND life

      "These half-dozen questions effectively synthesized what the Tudor regime had been pursuing piecemeal, as the opportunity arose, since it was first established half a century before.  The interest in the personal morality of the religious has often been upheld as the signal of a new determination to do battle with the very basis of religious vows.  But the behaviour of individuals, their social and sexual liaisons, had always figured in the visitations, both those carried out under the external authority of the bishop and those investigations undertaken by their own congregations."

     James G. Clark, The dissolution of the monasteries:  a new history (New Haven:  Yale University Press, 2022), 234 (Part Two, chap. V. The King's Commissions), italics mine.  The footnote at the end of this paragraph  appears to cite sources no earlier than 1492, however.  Would this hold also against claims about the rise of a supposedly new and unprecedented reformist
interest in surveillance and control at about this time?