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kept in there was the Date 1618, inlaid in the Wood. 
Opening it the Maid (hewed us the Book, where 
Mr. Eh fiord collated it with the other we brought with us 
from Awfterdaw, and found it to agree both in the words 
of the Text, and alfo the Piftures $ they only differed in 
this, that being in Folio, with two Pictures in a Page, 
and, the Words Column-wife, and 25 Lines in a Column, 
containing 60 Pages, and Printed but on one fide, and 
riot parted together as thofe at Oxford and Cambridge. 
This will enable me to oblige the Curious with a Spe- 
cimen of the Harlem Book, as well as thofe of- Oxford 
and Cambridge, the latter I have cut for my Hiftory of 
Printing, as 1 do intend the others. 
After I had gratified the Maid for her trouble, we ad- 
drert our (elves to an old Gardner that was at work in the 
Garden ^ for Mr. Bullord had enquired of him when we 
came firft into the Garden, whether he knew any thing 
of the Statue of Cofier, and he readily told him, he could 
fhew him if. At the Entrance into the Garden, at the 
upper end of the Summer-houfe, on the Right Hand, he 
pointed to it, where we faw it leaning with its Left Hand 
on the Infcription, which bore Date 1440 and in its 
Right Hand the Letter A in a Square, with other Figures, 
as little Boys naked, and in their Hands ABC, with the 
Pifture of Fame holding the Letters C D and E. This was 
taken from the Story of Junius in his Hiflorj of the Low 
Countries , and others from him. There are other Stories 
painted on the Walls of the Summer- Houfe, as one of 
the Lords of Harlem in his Armour 5 but they not being 
to my purpofe, I (hall pafs them by. 
All thefe Piftures, with the Statue of Cofter, are painted 
in Dirtemper, and are no older (as appears by the Date 
on the Ceiling) than 1655. 
This is afhort Account of my fecond Voyage into Hol- 
land , and the Advantages! have gain’d by it, in collating 
the fo much efteem’d Book by the Hollanders, which 
feems 
