1475 . . Louris Janszoon Coster pays a fine for “buyten drincken” (to drink beyond the premises). 1483 . . Received of Louris Janszoon Coster for ferry toll for his goods when he left the town, 8 rex guilders. We here see that the name of Louris Janszoon Coster was recorded in the town-book for the last time under the date of 1483, when he paid ferry toll for his goods, and was allowed to leave the town. It is not known where he went or where he died, but it is plain that the story of his death in 1439, as related by Meerman and Koning, must be untrue. There might have been a doubt as to the identity of the chandler with the innkeeper, if Van der Linde had not investigated in another direction, and made gleanings from the books of an old association, whose records are as trustworthy as those of the archives of the town and the church. This association, which still exists, under the name of the _Holy Christmas Corporation_, is thus described by Van der Linde: It is one of those fraternities which had the lofty aim of eating and drinking. This corporation is already very old, for it celebrated its third jubilee in 1606. Its fifty-four brethren and sisters preserved each a chair for their meetings. According to these statutes, these chairs, if they were not disposed of by a last will, were inherited by [p367] the eldest and nearest blood relation in the branch from which they came . . . . The corporation remaining in existence, the right of property in the chairs continued, by uninterrupted transmission, until our time. In the register of the names of the occupants of the chairs are found the following entries under the heading of chair 29: 1421 . . Jan Coster, by . . . . 1436 . . Lourijs Coster, by inheritance. 1484 . . Frans Thomas Thomasz, by . . . .[217] 1497 . . Gerret Thomas Pieterz, by inheritance from his father. 1564 . . Cornelis Gerritz, by inheritance from his father. 1589 . . Anna Gerritsdr., by purchase from her cousin. The names of the successive owners of chair 29 are continued in the book, but they are of no interest in this inquiry. The archives of the church and town of Haarlem contain the names of other Costers, but there is no other Coster who will answer the description of Junius and Thomaszoon. The Lourens Janszoon Coster of the pedigree, the Louwerijs Janssoen (so called only after the year 1441) or Lourijs Coster of the archives, and the Lourijs Coster of the chair-book are, without doubt, the different names of the same man. This is the man who, according to Thomaszoon and Junius, brought the first print in the world. But he appears as a printer only in the pedigree. The archives and the chair-book do not so describe him; they tell us nothing of his invention, nor of the alleged stealing of his types, nor of his death in 1439. The town-book says that he was living in 1483. In none of these documents does he appear as sheriff, sexton, or treasurer.