Where the figures can be checked, for example against the financial records of the king's officials in charge of dissolving monasteries in the later 1530s, they are shown to be broadly accurate though on the low side, in some cases by as much as 15%.
When compared to financial records kept by officials tasked with dismantling monasteries during the later 1530s, the figures provided appear to be broadly correct, although in some instances, they may be slightly understated, by as much as 15%.