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fonheir Work, as to maintain thenifelves and Families. Thw 
Trick might be long undifcovered in and about Harlaem. 
bccaiife there was no other Printing, whereby this might be 
condemn'ds but at length 5asB(?x/Cw;//>/ and SchnveUm write, 
Fh(1 ran away with all his Matters Tools and Materials, and 
inProcefs of time fet up a Printers Shop at Mentz^ being af 
fitted by his Servant Veter Schoeffer (a Y oong Man of a good 
Genius) who afterwards Married his Daughter, and became 
his Partner in the Bufioefi. The Story goes, that this 
John Fufi went to Paris (but whether before or after his 
fettling at Mentz^ \ cannot tell i) and that he there oifer'd 
a great number of Frinted Bibles to fale, as if they were 
Maw^fcripts, But the French were not to be fo caught, They 
confide^ed the number of thefe Books, and their cxad con- 
formity to one another throughout the whole, to a Line^ 
a Word, a Letter, a Pointy aad that the beft of Book, 
Writers could not be thus exaft, and therefore by Indifting 
him of Diabolical Magic (or threating him with it) they at 
once gave birth to the Story of Da&or Fanfttis^ and caufed 
him to difcover the Art. And I doubt not but about this time^ 
very many Books were Printed and Sold for Manufcripts, 
I having feen divers fuch Books without Dates,which look'd 
rather older than any! have feen with them, i fpeak now 
of thofe that are Set or Composed of Letter^ which with 
Printif/g'hl{of Lamp-Black and Oyi^and the PrinU?ig'?refs^ 
is faidto be the Improvement of S'^'/w^^r^above-mentioned, 
\ho Sckrevelius with lefs reafon afcfibes the two former to 
his Countrytnan Kofier. 
When Fuji and Schoeffer began fii ft to Work at Men s 
is uncertain, but the firft mention I find of him5 as a Printer 
at Mefitz^ is m Schrevelins^ Harlem pag. I'j 2, where he fays 
that this Fuji (or Faujius as he calls him) pubiiftied AlexanM 
Do&rinale cum Petri Hifpani traffatibus A» Z). 1442. but this 
and fome other Books mentiont ■ by Writers on this fubjefr, 
are never faid to be extant in any particuUr place^ in order 
to be confulud upon occafionj, and therefore their Titles 
