Rest and recuperation seems to have gained quite a wide definition by the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s. By then, the Abbot had his own parlour in the northeast wing, his monks were hunting for deer in the park and getting up to quite a number of other interesting activities while there, including the odd murder, giving rise to one of Sinai's 45 different ghost stories!
As a result of the Dissolution, Sinai was acquired by the William Paget family, the first Baron of Beaudesert and one of Henry VIII's chief ministers. The Paget family continued to own Sinai for almost 400 years, later becoming earls of Uxbridge and marquises of Anglesey.
