Bernard, G. W. (1 oktober 2011). ”The Dissolution of the Monasteries” (på engelska). History – The Journal of the Historical Association (Oxford, Storbritannien: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.) 96 (4): sid. 390-409. ISSN0018-2648. Läst 4 februari 2021. ”There were nearly 900 religious houses in England, around 260 for monks, 300 for regular canons, 142 nunneries and 183 friaries; some 12,000 people in total, 4,000 monks, 3,000 canons, 3,000 friars and 2,000 nuns. If the adult male population was 500,000, that meant that one adult man in fifty was in religious orders.”.
Bernard, G. W. (1 oktober 2011). ”The Dissolution of the Monasteries” (på engelska). History – The Journal of the Historical Association (Oxford, Storbritannien: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.) 96 (4): sid. 390-409. ISSN0018-2648. Läst 4 februari 2021.
