Fulling-mills are only found at Rocester and Stone, and their annual value in each case is small, £2 6s. 8d. and £1 6s. 8d. respectively, so that in Staffordshire at any rate it could not be said that the monasteries competed to any large extent with lay industries. Salt-pans are only mentioned in the case of Dieulacres (£3) and Ronton (£1 11s.). It is strange that no mention is made of the Pottery Works at Hulton Abbey, and the Tannery which the same house had possessed at the time of Pope Nicholas IV’s _Taxatio_ (1288) had also disappeared. In the _Taxatio_ four mills had been taken into account in the valuation of Burton Abbey, one each in those of Croxden, Dieulacres, and Stone, and two each in those of Hulton, Ronton, St. Thomas’s Priory, and Tutbury. The revenue from Courts is also small. It is as follows: £ s. d. Burton Abbey 3 6 8 Dieulacres Abbey 4 0 0 Hulton Abbey 12 0 Rocester Abbey 6 8 (in post-Dissolution Valuation). St. Thomas’s Priory 3 2 Stone Priory 13 4 (£1 6s. 8d. in post-Dissolution Valuation). Trentham Priory 12 0 Tutbury Priory 16 8 (_nulla_ in post-Dissolution Valuation). It is difficult to account for the smallness of these figures. It is idle to say the monks withheld all the information they possessed when we find the Valuers after the Dissolution deliberately stating that the revenue from all the Courts which had belonged to Tutbury was nothing. Perhaps the Court profits were in many cases included in other items, but more probably the explanation is to be found in the feeling of insecurity which must have been general throughout the whole period with which we are dealing. The shadow of the impending Dissolution must have been for some time darkening the land, and tenants would not readily take new tenancies, with the accompanying admission fees, in the general uncertainty. It shows that there had been few changes of tenants or of tenures during recent years. CHAPTER VII THE GENERAL SUPPRESSION: FIRST STAGE