Former hinge strips in Shelfmark of source: Bamburgh Select 13 - Ranulf Higden, Polycronicon (Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde, 1495), bound in full calf over chamfered wooden boards laced in with four alum-tawed double leather supports, 16th century; blind panel rolls, Oldham IN5 and FPg13 which indicate that the current binding may be of Norwich origin. The names of Bridget, Elizabeth and John Heydon all appear written in the book, all names of children of Sir Henry Heydon J.P. (died 1504) of Baconsthorp, Norfolk. Doyle notes the fragment of printed text stuck on the inner front board, which uses Caxton's Type 4* type and suggests that the text is from Lydgate's The lyf of our lady ESTC S100681. This combination of words does not occur, however, (the nearest being the last four lines of stanza 5 of “How our lady prayed to god for seuen peticions”). There is a fragment of a variant version of the same text, ESTC S100605, where “the text varies considerably from that of the corresponding leaves” but surviving examples do not contain this section. Doyle suggests that the boards have been re-used from an earlier binding which, the manuscript and printed fragments suggest to have been done in Westminster.