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160 ter is intitled "of Arsmetrike, and whereof it procedeth." Herbert, who supposes Laurence Andrew to have practised printing in 1537, notices a book from his press, in which "Arsmetryke 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 cast of Arismetyke, or Awgrym, in hole numbers, and also in broken;" and at the conclusion it is suggested, "Thus endeth the Scyence of Awgrym, the wich is newly corrected out of dyvers bokes, because that the people may come to the more understandynge and knowlege of the sayde arte or scyence of Awgrym."

These terms are thus explained by Record, after a hint given by the master to the scholar: "What great rebuke it were to have studied a science, and yet cannot tell how it is named." "Both names, Arsemetrick and Avgrime, are corruptly written. Arsmetrick for Arithmeticke, as the Greeks call it, and Augrime for Algorisme, as the Arabians found it, which doth betoken the science of Numbering ."

A. 1543. Hugh Oldcastle, scholemaster in St. Ollave's parish in Mark Lane, set forth the "Treatise according to which he there taught Arithmetike." This was reprinted by John Windet in 1588, under the title of "A Briefe Instruction to keepe Bookes of Accomptes." And I imagine John Mellis to have been the "reneuer and reviver of this auncient copie," it being advertised that