sentences:  The work of collecting the information was ordered to be completed by 30 May 1535 and the results sent in to the Exchequer in London.The commissioners were unpaid and untrained, mostly local gentry, mayors, magistrates, bishops and sheriffs, but they approached the vast task with speed and, by the summer of 1535, the government had in its hands a detailed accounting of the property and wealth of the church.Most of their work survives, preserved in 22 Latin volumes and three folders at The National Archives in Kew.