( 1401 ) 
feeri the fame in Holland , and that it was in the Harlemer- 
Jlreet in Lejden. This very much run in my mind, to be 
further fatisfied that it (hould be in Leyden and not Har- 
lem, altho' afferted by feveral of our Modern Travel- 
lers. 
At my laft being in Holland, for my further fatisfadion, 
tho’ I had got Mr- Ball to take the Infcription for me the 
Year before, in June 1705, having an opportunity in the 
Company of my good Friend Walter Clavel Efq$ on Wed- 
nefday the 2§d of October 170 6 . we took Boat for Leyden , 
where we arrived about fix the fame Day, and next Day 
in the Morning, in the Company of Mr. Bovell, a Student 
there, who was our Guide into the Harlemer-Jlreet, fo called 
becaufe it leadeth to the Harlem Parts, over the Door of a 
Glazier’s Houfe was the Figure of Coher ent in Wood, 
and painted with the Infcription. 
This Statue was notfet up by any Publick Authority of 
the Magiftrates of that City, but by a Private Man j and, 
if I miftake nor, by the Owner of the Houfe, perhaps for 
the name and fake of the Street 5 and, as I fuppofe, not 
older than about 1630. This Statue is done after the 
Graved Print that is in the Book at Harlem , or the Paint- 
ing over the Door of Laurence Johnfon Cojler , where they 
fay he firft practis’d the Art of Printing, but I rather take 
it, that he liv’d in this Houfe in his Old Age, and was 
Church-Keeper, or as we call it, Sexton 3 for fo the Word 
fignifies both in the German and Dutch Language. This 
afforded me fome fatisfa&ion. 
Some Days after leaving Leyden , in Company of my 
Friends, Mr. John Bullord, and Mr. John Murray, we fet 
forth from Amflerdam in a Waggon for Harlem, to com- 
pare and collate the Book which Mr. Bullord had procu- 
red for me with that at Harlem, it being another lmprelr 
fion in Quarto. The Name of the Book at the latter end 
runs thus : 
This 
