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AND ITS PRINTER. 57 the undoubted error in the earlier entry discounts the reliability of the later. At the same time, it is not quite easy to see how Ysenhut's name managed to get into the official record at all. Possibly Lienhart, who was a near neighbour of Adam's in the Weisse Gasse, took neighbourly charge of his widow when she had to appear in court, and the clerk confused the parties' names. Adam's widow had her full share of the litiga- tion which in those days so often followed upon a printer's death. Heinrich David, Ruprecht Winter, Peter von Weissenburg, and Jacob von Pforzheim all insistently urged their respective claims, as did Veltin Hassler, ' der Buchfiihrer,' later on, and Hirsinger had much ado to satisfy them one by one by a series of compositions and further loans, which need not be followed out in detail. On 5th February, 1492, Veltin Gilgen- stein, who had meanwhile been appointed procurator of Adam's children, was commissioned to go to Chur and collect what was still outstanding in the diocese of the moneys realised by the sale of the Breviaries. By 2ist February he had returned with a sum sufficient to satisfy the claims of David and Winter, which took precedence of the rest ; but Jacob von Pforzheim and Weissenburg con- tinued to demand what was owing to them for the work they had done on the books. In May, 1492, Adam's widow and children came to an agreement with Weissenburg, the terms of which are unfortunately not stated, as the entry was left unfinished ; but whatever they were, the widow was apparently unable to comply with them, for