 Where nuns came from well-born families, as many did, they seem commonly to have returned to live with their relatives.Otherwise, there were a number of instances where former nuns of a house clubbed together in a shared household.Moreover, there were no retrospective pensions for those monks or nuns who had already sought secularisation following the 1535 visitation, nor for those members of the smaller houses dissolved in 1536 and 1537 who had not then remained in the religious life, nor for those houses dissolved before 1538 due to the conviction for treason of their superior, and no friars were pensioned.