The clear annual “value of all the possessions belonging to the said monastery, as well spiritual as temporal, besides £136 8_s._ 1_d._, granted in fees and annuities to several persons by letters patent, under the convent seal, for their lives, was £1595 17_s._ 6_d._ The pensions assigned by the royal commissioners--Southwell, Petre, Kairn, Price, Kingsmen, Paulett, and Bernars--to the abbot, the prior, and other members of the establishment, amounted to £532 6_s._ 8_d._, leaving a handsome balance of £1063 10_s._ 10_d._ in favour of his Majesty’s exchequer. The keys of the treasury were delivered to Richard Paulett, receiver; but the records and evidences belonging to the monastery, which were deposited therein, and the houses and buildings which were to remain undefaced, were committed to the keeping of Sir John Whittington. Of the houses and buildings to be preserved were,--the lodging called Newark, leading from the gate to the <g>Abbot’s Lodgings</g>, with the buttery, pantry, cellar, larder, kitchen, and pastry thereto adjoining: the late abbot’s lodging; the hostrey; the great gate entering into the court, with the lodging over the same; the Abbot’s stable, bakehouse, brewhouse, and slaughter-house; the almary, barn, and dairy-house; the great barn next the river Avon; the malt-house, with the garners in the same; the ox-house in the Penton gate, and the lodging over the same.”--These afford some notion of the domestic offices of a lord abbot of that day. The buildings “deemed to be superstitious or superfluous, and therefore to be demolished, were the church--but which was happily preserved with its appendages, and made parochial--the chapels, the cloister, the chapter-house, the two dormitories; the infirmary, with the chapels and lodgings within the same; the workhouse, with another house adjoining to the same; the convent kitchen, the library, the misericorde, the old hostrey, the chamber and lodgings, the new hall, the old parlour adjoining the abbot’s lodgings, the cellarer’s or butler’s lodging, the poultry-house, the garner, the almary, and all other houses and lodgings not before reserved.” The list of materials to be converted to the king’s use, and delivered to the commissioners, were as follows:--the leads remaining on the choir, aisles, and chapels annexed; “the cloister, chapter-house, fratery, St. Michael’s chapel, halls, infirmary, and gatehouse, were estimated at 180 fodder. The bells remaining in the steeple were eight poizes, by estimation 14,600 lbs. weight.”