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Pattern I: Fleur-de-lis in crowned shield over WR monogram

This pattern was common throughout the seventeenth century, cf. Heawood no. 1660, 1721, 1721A, 1724, 1761-2, 1768-9, 1781.

Specimens: folios 74[a], 75[a], 75[b].

Pattern J: Crozier in crowned shield over the initials NCH/M

This pattern, less common, seems very similar to Heawood no. 1199 (“Schieland Records”, 1616).

Specimens: folios 77[a], 78[a], 79[a], 80[a], 81[a], 81[b].

Lower endpapers of the seventeenth-century binding

Unlike those at the front, the lower endpapers clearly belong to the period of the present parchment-covered boards (seventeenth-century English work).

Pattern K: Bunch of grapes with countermark “A.GOUTON”

The countermark on the flyleaf (folio 85), running vertically between chain-lines with the name “A. GOUTON” in a narrow cartouche, is close to Heawood no. 2252 (London, 1607). The position of the “grapes” watermark as stuck down in the pastedown makes its pattern less clear to the eye and inaccessible to beta-radiography, but the tip of the bunch seems to terminate with a small cross, as in Heawood 2252.