Of course the Dissolution entailed a very large material loss to the Church. The gross total income of the monasteries in Staffordshire, as given in _Valor Ecclesiasticus_, was £1,874 0s. 1½d.--an estimate, as we have seen, which was probably below the mark. If it be said that the monks took but little share in the spiritual life of the people and did but little practical work for the Church, we may at least take into consideration the amount they received from tithes, glebe, and voluntary offerings from parishes. They received, as we have seen, £543 6s. 5d. from this source and paid out £19 7s. 10d. Of the former sum practically nothing reverted to its original use, so that, even if the latter continued to be paid, the Church, though it might be no worse off in the matter of tithes than it was before, was at any rate no better. The benefices decreased in value. Ellaston was valued by Strete before the suppression of Calwich at £13 6s. 8d.;[221] in _Valor Ecclesiasticus_ it stands at £4 9s. 2d.[222] The Bishop of the Diocese lost £94 6s. 8d. in fees and the Archdeacons £10 13s. 4d. The fees paid to the King amounted to £10 9s. 7d., and would, of course, continue under the new owners. The total amount of wealth brought to the Royal Treasury is quite incalculable. Besides the whole annual income of the monasteries, there was the value of the contents of the houses, plate, furniture, stores, grain, cattle, etc. The former was enormous, but the latter was no despicable figure. We have figures of some of the sales at the Dissolution: ---------------------------+-------------+-------------+----------+---------- | Goods Sold | Plate | Lead | Bells ---------------------------+-------------+-------------+----------+---------- | £ s. d. | | | Brewood Nunnery | 7 6 1 | | | St. Thomas’s Priory | 87 9 6 | 28½oz. | £40 | £54 Dieulacres Abbey | 63 14 10 | 117oz. | £720 | £37 10s. Newcastle--Black Friars | | 14oz. | choir & | | | | cloister | Stafford--Austin Friars | 32 6 4 | 13oz. | £8 | 8s. „ Grey Friars | 34 3 10 | 16oz. | £45 | £10 Lichfield--Grey Friars | 68 15 0 | | | Croxden Abbey | 9 9 8 | | | Rocester Abbey | 11 6 | | | Hulton Abbey | | | | £19 16s. ---------------------------+-------------+-------------+----------+---------- Total (of figures shown) | 304 6 9 | 448½ oz. | £805 | £129 14s. ---------------------------+-------------+-------------+----------+----------