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52 THE CHUR BREVIARY OF 1490 but there is no means of telling when he became so or how old he may have been. His original occupation was not that of a book-printer, but of a wood-engraver and illuminator ; he is variously referred to as ' Heiligendrucker,' * Kartenmacher,' c Kartenmaler,' ' Briefmaler,' and c Maler,' and has figured as such in monographs of Dr. Weisbach and Dr. Schreiber. At the end of 1475 he possessed 250 guilders, which was temporarily increased by fifty guilders in the following year, paid a poll-tax on an establishment of seven persons, and owned two houses, one of which was named ' zum Paradies,' in the Weisse Gasse in the parish of SS. Alban and Ulrich. Evidently, therefore, his busi- ness must have been flourishing. Possibly some of his money came to him by his wife Margaret, the daughter of Bernhard Haller, citizen of Mas- miinster in Alsace, from whom she inherited two- thirds of a house, bleaching-ground and meadow in that town. Adam's career at Basel was temporarily interrupted at the end of July, 1478, when both he and his wife were expelled from the city for some unspecified offence. Count Philip of Neuchatel intervened on behalf of the wife l to procure her readmission to the city early in 1479, but the Council regretted that they could not see their way to granting his request, as her misdemeanours 1 'Phillipp Graf zu Nuwenburg und Herr zu Fontena'(Stehlin, no. 1138). The head of the house of Neuchatel at this date was Count Rudolph, who was not succeeded by Count Philip until 1487, but the reference can scarcely be to any other < Neuenburg.' c Fontena ' stands either for Fontaine Andre or more probably for Fontaines, about four miles north-west of Neuchatel itself.