5 5 is represented by the myddle fynger onely bowed.
6 And 6 by the weddynge fynger only crooked: and this you may marke in these a certayne order. But now 7, 8, and 9, are expressed with the bowynge of the same fyngers as are 1, 2, and 3, but after an other fourme.
7 For 7 is declared by the bowynge of the lytell fynger, as is 1, saue that for 1 the fynger is clasped in, harde and 135 a. *rounde, but for to expresse 7, you shall bowe the myddle ioynte of the lytell fynger only, and holde the other ioyntes streyght.
S. Yf you wyll geue me leue to expresse it after my rude maner, thus I vnderstand your meanyng: that 1 is expressed by crookynge in the lyttell fynger lyke the head of a bysshoppes [bagle]: and 7 is declared by the same fynger bowed lyke a gybbet.
M. So I perceaue, you vnderstande it.
8 Then to expresse 8, you shall bowe after the same maner both the lyttell fynger and the rynge fynger.
9 And yf you bowe lyke wayes with them the myddle fynger, then doth it betoken 9.
10 Now to expresse 10, you shall bowe your fore fynger rounde, and set the ende of it on the hyghest ioynte of the thombe.
20 And for to expresse 20, you must set your fyngers streyght, and the ende of your thombe to the partition of the 135 b. *fore moste and myddle fynger.
30 30 is represented by the ioynynge together of ye headdes of the foremost fynger and the thombe.