[84] Hadrian Junius was born at Hoorn, in 1511, and is said to have been educated at a classical school of repute at Haarlem. He also studied at Louvain. He soon shewed himself a person of ability; and having embraced the medical profession, was appointed physician to the Duke of Norfolk, and afterwards to the King of Denmark. He is said to have taken up his abode in Haarlem in 1560, and to have resided there till 1572, when he quitted the city on account of the siege that then took place. According to Lypsius, he was the most learned man in Holland after Erasmus. His work _Batavia_ was commenced late in life, and completed in January, 1575. His death took place at Middleburg, on the 16th June of the same year. [85] The original will be found in the Appendix. [86] The above translation is taken from the article on Printing in the Edinburgh edition (1815) of the Encyclopædia Britannica, supplemented by that given in Stower’s “Printers’ Grammar” (1808.) Both writers are strong pro-Costerians. [87] Galius is probably the same who is called _Claes_ Lottynz, Gael, _Scabinus Haarlemi_, as it is in the Fasti of that city, in the years 1531, 1533, and 1535. Quirinus in the same Fasti is called Mr. Quiryn Dirkszoon. He was many years amanuensis to Erasmus, as appears from his epistle 23rd July, 1529, tom iii. Oper. p. 1222. He was afterwards Scabinus in 1537 _et seq._, and Consul in 1552, _et seq._ But in the troubles of Holland he was cruelly killed by the Spanish soldiers, May 23, 1563. [88] Meerman’s Account of the family and descendants of Laurent Janssoen, vol. i. p. 38, _et seq._ [89] OTTLEY’S _Inquiry_, p. 308. [90] _Vide_ ch. xvii. of his work. [91] The writer of these verses was one of the correctors of the press employed by Schœffer, though his name does not appear. He concludes with the expression of a desire, which to this day finds a responsive echo in the bosom of every author and printer whose soul has been vexed by the blunders of copyists and compositors:--“Oh!” is his pathetic exclamation,--“if they could succeed in purging the texts of all their faults!--those who arrange the characters, as well as those who read the proofs; the friends of literature would then infallibly award to them a crown of glory, who thus come in aid by their books to thousands of seats of learning.” It is not at all unlikely that these verses were the origin of Junius’s assertion, that the name of the workman who stole Coster’s types and implements, and carried them off to Mentz, was John. [92] MALLINCKROT, de Ortu et Progressu Artis Typographicæ. _Coloniæ_, 1639.