 There were proposals from local gentry and even some of the king's officials for the Dissolution such as Sir Thomas Arundell that Cleeve should be granted a reprieve, as a number of others among the smaller monasteries were, however, it was not to be and the monks finally left in the spring of 1537.Abbot William was given a pension of 40 marks per year, not large but certainly comfortable, which he was still drawing 20 years later.Most of the other monks were given pensions too.