 Combermere received its visitation from Thomas Cromwell's commissioners, Richard Layton and Thomas Legh, in February 1536, at which time its debts were assessed at £160.As with the other Cheshire abbeys, Combermere leased many properties on very long leases during its last few years, several within its final months.The last abbot, John Massey, seems not to have contested the dissolution particularly vigorously.