The pension list of that year records all 16 surviving pensioners. 17 years after the surrender, pensions were still being paid to 11 former canons, and Ralph Harrison was still curate of Breaston.

Certain fees and annuities were fixed before the dissolution, to the sum of £18.13s.4d. They included sums of 53s.4d. given to Charles Bruerton, 40s. given to each of Richard Wheatley, Adam Bardsay and the vicar of Spondon, 26s.8d. to Sir Henry Sacheverell, and 20s each to Robert Wheatley, Sir John Willoughby, Nicholas Powtrell, John Tower, Ralph Hauke and Henry Cross (who was also given a house and close; there are Crosses living in Dale village to this day).   

Thomas Thacker of Heage also received 53s.4d. This gentleman was well known in the midlands as one of Cromwell’s agents and a scoundrel; he eventually possessed himself of the Prior’s Lodge at Repton. He was the brother of Robert Thacker, vicar of St Werburgh’s, Derby, who is on record as saying that he would demand Thomas’ fee from the abbot [sic] of Derby and Dale. This appears to be 53s.4d. paid annually, and it became hereditary, paid to Edward and Thomas Thacker in 1555 or 1556. Thomas died in March 1548, but the sum is in the Pension Commissioners’ report of 1552 and the roll of 1555 or 1556. He was succeeded by his son Gilbert who had a pension of 40s. per annum from Darley, and destroyed Repton Priory church.

Some 30 people were given about a year's wages (10s.) as a reward. One servant was called Henry Baldock, a family which survived in Dale until the 17th century. The presentation to Heanor Vicarage was sold to Nicholas Powtrell and John Malyn by the abbot before the suppression.

The abbey’s debts amounted to £24 11s.6d.; Sir Henry Sacheverell was owed £6 13s.4d.; Agnes Brayes, a like sum; Dawson for fish 20s.; the church of Ilkeston for three dozen wax candles; Dr North £4; Piers Holland for his annuity 10s.; Roger Colyar’s wife, of Derby, for candles, 9s.; the vicar of St Mary’s, Nottingham four oaks; Robert Smyth of Derby for brick and tile 5s.10d.; John Halom of Stanley for iron and steel 20s.. Robert Nesse, the abbey’s former bailiff, owed 20s. for woods within the enclosing of his farm (apparently Stanley Grange) and the rows and hedges thereof. This came due next Lady Day.

The Commissioners had paid out £55 9s.8d. in rewards to the abbot and canons and in safeguarding the properties; they also made payments varying from 5s. to 20s., £15 9s.8d. in all, including payments of 20s. to Sir William Cooke the parish priest of Stanley in reward, John Tebaulde and his wife 12s. and John of the Henhouse 8s.; so they had made a total loss of £7 7s.6d. As Professor Colvin said, ‘It was clearly the lands and rents of the abbey which were to make its suppression profitable, rather than its goods and buildings’.