The canons were pensioned off. Abbot John Bebe received a pension of £26.13s.4d., and  £16.13s.4d. for his immediate needs. He died on 12th March 1540 or 1541 at Stanley Grange. Richard Wheatley alias Wetherby, the prior, received a pension of 106s.8d. There is some doubt as to what happened to Prior Richard: some sources say he died in 1545 or 1546, others that he was still alive in 1555 or 1556; it seems likely that he settled locally and married, as Wheatley is still a common name in this area.

Five canons received pensions of 106s.8d:  John Cadman (another locally common name), Richard Hawslon or Hawston, Thomas Bagshaw, William Smith and Robert Harvey. They were all given 40s for their immediate use. Cadman became the chaplain of Stanton-by-Dale and was still there in 1553 and 1555 or 1556; Hawston was still alive in 1555 or 1556; Bagshaw died at Little Eaton in 1542 and Smith at Stanley Grange, also in 1542; Harvey died the following year at Alton in Staffordshire.

Three canons received pensions of 100s: John Banks, Gregory or George Coke and Ralph Harrison. The former two were given 40s for their immediate use, the latter 50s. Harrison was recorded as curate of ‘Brearston chapel in Wilne parish’ in 1553. All of them were still alive in February 1555 or 6.  

Three canons received a pension of 66s.8d.: John Shelmode, Robert Wilson alias Herwood and James Cheryholme. They were also given 30s. for their immediate use. One James Cheryholme was the chantry priest of St Nicholas’ chantry in St Peter’s, Derby, at its dissolution, and as such duly received a pension of 53s. 4d. There is some doubt over Wilson’s survival: he is recorded as dying in 1545 but also still being alive, with the other two, in 1555 or 1556.

Canon John Bateman is recorded as receiving a pension of either 53s.4d. or 50s. Similarly there is uncertainty over the sum given to him for his immediate needs: was it 30s. or 40s.? Be that as it may, he failed to appear before the Pension Commission in 1552 and was still alive in 1555 or 1556.

Canon James Cleyton received a pension of 40s. (or perhaps 50s.) and a gift of 30s. for his immediate use. He was still alive in 1555 or 1556. Canon Robert Gerard received a pension of 16s.8d. and a gift of 30s. for his immediate use. He was still alive in 1555 or 1556. Canon Roger Page was allowed to retain the living of Kirk Hallam, and died there in 1569; the living was worth 40s..

The total sum given as gifts for the canons’ immediate use was £33. 13s.4d. , and the amount assigned to pensions £84.10s.   Pensions were never cut down or withheld or refused on the grounds of past moral irregularities; some pensioners alienated their annuities to others for ready money, a practice checked by ‘An Act against the crafty and deceitful buying of pensions from the late monasteries’ in the third year of the reign of Edward VI. This was regulated by a commission set up in each county, and a record of Derbyshire’s from November 1552 survives. The remaining pensions (after the removal of those who had died) were all in arrears for 6 or 12 months, pending ‘his majesty’s pleasure’ in 1551, but the situation had been corrected by the time of the pension roll in 1555 or 1556.