The body of a mummy swathed in cere-cloth. Lithograph by J. Basire after George Scharf, 1852.

Cere-cloth is a cloth dipped in melted wax used to wrap embalmed bodies in. Next to the mummy was a crozier, indicating that the deceased was possibly a bishop. The committee of the Society of Antiquaries concluded that it was the body of William Lyndewode (William Lyndwood), ca. 1375–1446, administrator, ecclesiastical lawyer, and bishop of St David's, Pembrokeshire. "His will was proved on 26 November 1446, and his body was buried in St Stephen's Chapel in the palace of Westminster, following the desires expressed in the will. The later history of the burial spot is uncertain, but in 1852 a body with a crosier thought to be Lyndwood's was discovered in the crypt. It was reinterred in Westminster Abbey in the north wall of the north cloister, a short distance from the east entrance door. The black marble ledger, under which it rests, is unfortunately now invisible because of construction carried out at a later date around the cloister door."--Oxford dictionary of national biography