Hans Schultheis, a dealer in wood, and Ann his wife, depose to the following effect: After the death of Andrew Drytzehn, Gutemberg’s servant, Lawrence Beildeck, came to their house, and thus addressed their relation Nicholas Drytzehn: “Your deceased brother Andrew had four “pieces” placed under a press, and John Gutemberg requests that you will take them out and lay them separately [or apart from each other] upon the press so that no one may see what it is.”[III-19] [Footnote III-19: “Andres Dritzehn uwer bruder selige hat iiij stücke undenan inn einer _pressen_ ligen, da hat uch Hanns Gutemberg gebetten das ir die darusz nement ünd uff die presse legent von einander so kan man nit gesehen was das ist.”--Schœpflin, Vind. Typ. Document. p. 6.] Conrad Saspach states that one day Andrew Heilman, a partner of Gutemberg’s, came to him in the Merchants’ Walk and said to him, “Conrad, as Andrew Drytzehn is dead, and _as you made the press_ and know all about it, go and take the _pieces_[III-20] out of the press and separate [zerlege] them so that no person may know what they are.” This witness intended to do as he was requested, but on making inquiry the day after St. Stephen’s Day[III-21] he found that the work was removed. [Footnote III-20: “Nym die stücke usz der _pressen_ und _zerlege_ sü von einander so weis nyemand was es ist:” literally: “Take the pieces out of the press and distribute [or separate] them, so that no man may know what it is.”--Schœpflin, Vind. Typ. Document. p. 6. “The word _zerlegen_,” says Lichtenberger, Initia Typograph. p. 11, “is used at the present day by printers to denote the distribution of the types which the compositor has set up.” The original word “stücke”--pieces--is always translated “paginæ”--pages--by Schelhorn. Dr. Dibdin calls them “_forms_ kept together by _two screws_ or press-_spindles_.”--Life of Caxton, in his edition of Ames’s and Herbert’s Typ. Antiq. p. lxxxvii. note.] [Footnote III-21: St. Stephen’s Day is on 26th December. Andrew Drytzehn, being very ill, confessed himself to Peter Eckhart on Christmas-day, 1438, and it would seem that he died on the 27th.] Lawrence Beildeck, Gutemberg’s servant, deposes that after Andrew Drytzehn’s death he was sent by his master to Nicholas Drytzehn to tell him not to show the press which he had in his house to any person. Beildeck also adds that he was desired by Gutemberg to go to the presses, and to open [or undo] the press which was fastened with two screws, so that the “pieces” [which were in it] should fall asunder. The said “pieces” he was then to place in or upon the press, so that no person might see or understand them.