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where you may se that the hole quotient is 348 d’, that is 29 s. wherby I knowe that so moche coste the purchace of one aker.

S. Now resteth the profes of Multiplycation, and also of Diuision.

M. Ther best profes are eche 130 b. *one by the other, for Multyplication is proued by Diuision, and Diuision by Multiplycation, as in the worke by the penne you learned.

S. Yf that be all, you shall not nede to repete agayne that, yt was sufficyently taughte all redye: and excepte you wyll teache me any other feate, here maye you make an ende of this arte I suppose.

M. So wyll I do as touchynge hole nomber, and as for broken nomber, I wyll not trouble your wytte with it, tyll you haue practised this so well, yt you be full perfecte, so that you nede not to doubte in any poynte that I haue taught you, and thenne maye I boldly enstructe you in ye arte of fractions or broken nomber, wherin I wyll also showe you the reasons of all that you haue nowe learned. But yet before I make an ende, I wyll showe you the order of commen castyng, wher in are bothe pennes, shyllynges, and poundes, procedynge by no grounded reason, but onely by a receaued 131 a. *fourme, and that dyuersly of dyuers men: for marchauntes vse one fourme, and auditors an other:

Merchants’ Casting Counters.

Merchants’ casting. But fyrste for marchauntes fourme marke this example here,

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in which I haue expressed this summe 198 l’i.[2] 19 s. 11 d’. So that you maye se that the lowest lyne serueth for pennes, the next aboue for shyllynges, the thyrde for poundes, and the fourth for scores of poundes. And farther you maye se, that the space betwene pennes and shyllynges may receaue but one counter (as all other spaces lyke wayes do) and that one standeth in that place for 6 d’. Lyke wayes betwene the shyllynges and the poundes, one counter standeth for 10 s. And betwene the poundes and 20 l’i. one counter standeth for 10 poundes. But besyde those you maye see at the left syde of shyllynges, that one counter standeth alone, and betokeneth 5 s. 131 b. *So agaynste the poundes, that one counter standeth for 5 l’i. And agaynst the 20 poundes, the one counter standeth for 5 score poundes, that is 100 l’i. so that euery syde counter is 5 tymes so moch as one of them agaynst whiche he standeth. Auditors’ casting. Now for the accompt of auditors take this example.