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ter is intitled " of Arfmetrike, .and whereof it procedeth." Herbert, who fuppofes Laurence .Andrew to have praclifed printing in 1537, notices a book from his prefs, in which " Arfmetryke wyth the maner of accountes and rekenynges by Cyfres" is mentioned; and Lewis, in Life of Caxton, p. 26, calls this another edition of the book printed by Caxton. A. 1537. John Hertforde printed in the Abbey of St. Alban's " an Introduction for to lerne to reken with the pen, and with the counters after the true caft of Arifmetyke, or Awgrym, in hole numbers, and alfo in broken;" and at the conclufion it is fuggeft- ed [], "Thus endeth the Scyence of Awgrym, the wich is newly corrected out of dyvers bokes, becaufe that the people may come to the more underftandynge and knowlege of the fayde arte or fcy- ence of Awgrym" Thefe terms are thus explained by Record, after a hint given by the mafter to the fcholar : " What great rebuke it were to have ftudied a fcience, and yet cannot tell how it is named." " Both names, Arfemetnck and Avgrime, are corruptly written. Arfme- trick for Arithmeticke, as the Greeks call it, and Augrime for Algorifme, as the Arabians found it, which doth betoken the fci- ence of Numbering [/]." A. 1543. Hugh Oldcaftle, fcholemafter in St. Ollave's parifh in Mark Lane, fet forth the " Treatife according to which he there taught Arithmetikc." This was reprinted by John Windet in 1588, under the title of " ABriefe Inftrudion to keepe Bookes of Accomptes." And I imagine John Mellis to have been the " re- neuer and reviver of this auncient copie," it being advertifed that [] The Introdudion, Sec. printed A. 1595, by Ja. Roberts, feems to have been an improved edition of this Treatife. [/J Record's Arithmetick, edit. 1658, p. 7. he