The Deed of Surrender was signed by John Bebe the abbot, Richard Wheytteley the prior and 15 canons: John Gadman or Cadman; Richard Hawsten or Halsame; Thomas Bagshaw; William Smith (signed with a mark, so he was probably illiterate); John Banks; John Shelmode; George or Gregory Coke; Robert Harvey; Ralph Harrison; Robert Wilson or Herwood; James Cheryholme and James Cleyton (signed with marks, so they were probably illiterate); John Bateman; Robert Jerett or Gerard; Roger Page. On the same day a jury of 12 helped the Commissioners to make an inventory.

The advowsons of the churches in Ilkeston, Kirk Hallam and Stanton by Dale were disposed of by the Commissioners.

St Mary’s Abbey’s inventory has survived as Brit. Mus. Addit. MSS 6698. It is quite detailed in some parts, but it has been observed that parts of the abbey itself have a suspiciously barren air in the inventory. Commissioners were appointed to oversee the disposal of the abbey buildings and their contents; they were:John Browhill, Robert Palmer, Robert Hyll, Laurence Dawes, Thomas Bothouse, Rychard Haryson, John Palmer;  Rychard Sotton, Robert Wandell, Robert Macham, Thomas Sheton and Raffe Sowthwell.

All the following was sold to Fra(u)nces Pole. In the church: at the high altar, a table of painted wood, two brass candlesticks, a lamp, choir stalls, a crucifix, Mary and John, and a pair of organs (20s); on the right hand side of the chancel two altars with two tables of alabaster (6s); the iron screen and woodwork round the founder's tomb (8s); the rood altar and rood; in the Lady Chapel an alabaster table, sets and wood (5s); in the small Lady Chapel an alabaster table with an image of the Virgin Mary (3s); a rood screen (20d); a clock (6s); the roof, iron, glass and paving stones in the church and grave stones (£18).

The dormitory raised 7s. 6d. In the vestry: two black satin tynacles, a black satin cope and albs, a white silk suit with a blue starred cape, a black silk suit, eight old copes, eight old altar cloths fetched 40s. In the cloister: the roof, iron, glass, pavingstones and seats raised £6, and in the Chapter House, the glass, iron, pavingstones 5s. The glass, iron and pavingstones of the warming room fetched 30s. The inventory mentions a hall: I have assumed this to refer to the refectory; wherever it was, the two tables and two benches fetched 12d.

In the Base Court, the four table cloths and six stands in the buttery raised 5s, while in the kitchen a brass pot in a furnace, three brass pots, five little pans, three spits, a pair of coberds (probably irons supporting the spit), a pot chain, two cressetts, one gridiron, a pair of tongs, a pestle and mortar, 40 plates, dishes and saucers fetched 40s. In the Brewhouse, two leads, a mashing fatte, and a malt ark raised £4, which seems to be quite a large sum; it would be interesting to know what a fatte was. Or, indeed, what was the Yelyng House