sentences:  In a few instances the discrepancy is of so large a scale as to suggest deliberate fraud in the returns in the "Valor Ecclesiasticus"; as was the case for example of Norton Priory in Cheshire, where the submitted figure was so low as to render the abbey liable for suppression under the first (1536) statute for the dissolution of lesser religious houses.The "Valor" gave the government for the first time a solid understanding of the scale of the wealth of the church as a whole and particularly of the monasteries.It was not long before King Henry began planning ways of seizing much of these riches for himself, starting with the smaller religious houses.