Winding-sheet used in a sentence

Winding-sheet in a sentence as a noun

It tells you a thing or two about his life: that he was born a Catholic and some of his family were imprisoned on account of their religion; that he went to sea with the Earl of Essex; that he had a lot of sex in his youth and became a religious minister later on, becoming the dean of St Paul's cathedral; that as his death approached he wore what would be his winding-sheet so that a sculptor could prepare to make a monument for him. It gives you some quotations, for a sense of the small-scale sound of his language."