The middle class liked some show for its money; but again it was the ostentation without the vulgarity of wealth.
Looking upon his beautiful house, or worshipping beside his family tombs, with the merchant's mark on the brasses, in St Katherine's aisle, Thomas Paycocke must often have blessed the noble industry which supported him.
The wills of the Paycockes tell the same story.

To whom beside his family does Thomas leave legacies but the good folk of the neighbourhood, who worked for him.

There is the Goodday family of cheerful name, two of whom were shearmen, or cloth finishers, and had substantial gifts.

'I bequeth to Thomas Goodday Sherman xx s.

and ych of his childryn iij s.