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Unfortunately, the chronological relationships of Purchas’s edition, the strips of repairing paper, the seventeenth-century ink foliation, and the present seventeenth -century binding are not clear. Chart 12 may put too much weight on Purchas’s order, which takes only selected elements from each picture; nevertheless, all his other woodcuts are in the correct order. His evidence seems at least sufficient to confirm that the order of Quire VI was already disturbed by the time the materials for the 1625 edition were prepared (1625 at the latest). If chart 12 genuinely reflects the physical order of the leaves in Purchas’s time, it should be sufficient to date both the seventeenth-century binding and the foliation later than that time.

Since (apart from any artificial rejoinings) all five surviving leaves of the quire are singletons which lost their conjoint leaves long ago, their order when loose may not have been obvious. The positions of folios 55 and 54 might originally have been reversed by someone who did not realize that each page of text was to be read with its facing pictures; for example, the presence of the closing title of the second section at the end of the text on folio 54v, rather than after its pictures on folio 55r might have been enough to cause the reversal of the two leaves.