[1] Higgins was said by Thomas Hearne to have been a student of Christ Church, Oxford, but his name does not appear in the university register.
[1] Sixteen legends, dealing with Albanact, Locrinus, Bladud, Ferrex, Porrex, Nennius, and others, are told in verse "complaints".
[2] Higgins reissued his First Parte in 1575, enlarging his metrical address at the conclusion, and adding a new poem, Irenglass.
For this edition Higgins prepared 23 further poems: the new series treats of Brennus, Cæsar, Nero, Caracalla, and others.
In a later section appears another new poem by him, How the Valiant Knight, Sir Nicholas Burdet, Chiefe Butler of Normandy, was slayne at Pontoise, Anno 1441.