"Their gifts ranged from small amounts of money -'a penny now and a sixpence when I die'- to gold, and the benefits of churches; and in between are some particularly practical and vivid donations: one man's best horse and armour, another's horse and armour 'when I die, if I have them, and if I do not, then twenty pieces of gold'; one woman's best coverlet, and from many women an annual gift of a shirt and a pair of breeches, and their best cloaks when they died."