you the rather for that commyssyon ys nowe oute for the ende of those causys, of which you nowe may be dyscharged yf the faulte be not in youer selfe. We also advertysse you that Mr. Sheldone wylbe no further charged concernynge the leade and belles within your late circuyte there thenne ys conteyned in the indentures bytwyxte you and hym; and therefore you muste aunswere the reste youer selfe, whereunto we dought not but you wyll have such respecte as we may receyve youer aunswere withe expedycion.” It is difficult to make any precise estimate of the numbers affected by the Dissolution. In the case of houses the deeds of surrender of which are extant, of course the number of signatories can be definitely stated. The Suppression papers give some further details. _Valor Ecclesiasticus_ gives the stewards and bailiffs, etc., but, as we have seen, cannot be relied upon for completeness. From a comparison of the available data the following table has been compiled: ---------------------+---------+--------+--------+---------------------+--------------- |Religious|Bailiffs|Servants| Chief Steward | Others | | etc. | | | ---------------------+---------+--------+--------+---------------------+--------------- Brewood Nunnery | 4 | | 7 | | 1 chaplain Burton Abbey | | 11 | | Earl of Huntingdon | 1 corrodian, | | | | | 1 scholar Croxden Abbey | 13 | 7 | | | Dieulacres Abbey | 13 | 8 | 30 | Lord Derby | 8 bedeswomen Dudley Priory | | 2 | | | Hulton Abbey | | 5 | | {Sir Philip Draycot | | | | | {Sir Richard Sutton | Rocester Priory | 9 | 2 | | | Ronton Priory | | 3 | | John Harcourt | St. Thomas’s Priory | 7 | 13 | 16 | Earl Ferrers | Stone Priory | | 2 | | Sir Edward Aston | Trentham Priory | | 4 | | William Chetwyn | 1 corrodian Tutbury Priory | 9 | 10 | | Earl of Shrewsbury | ---------------------+---------+--------+--------+---------------------+---------------