This is evident in the care with which willmakers - especially poor willmakers - detailed their bequests, down to the names of cows, the location of a particular table or who slept in a certain bed, and the colour of breeches and petticoats.

We would then take a surrogate pair consisting of two wydes: the first from the high area, the second from the low area.

‘I’ll be square with you. No funny business.’

Thus we find the bishops in the primitive church indicting of fasts , proclaiming assemblies , calling synods , gathering synaxes