The grounde of artes teaching the perfect vvorke and practise of arithmetike, both in whole nu[m]bers and fractions, after a more easie ane exact sort, than hitherto hath bene set forth. Made by M. Robert Recorde, D. in Physick, and afterwards augmented by M. Iohn Dee. And now lately diligently corrected, [and] beautified with some new rules and necessarie additions: and further endowed with a thirde part, of rules of practize, abridged into a briefer methode than hitherto hath bene published: with diverse such necessary rules, as are incident to the trade of merchandize. Whereunto are also added diuers tables [and] instructions ... By Iohn Mellis of Southwark, scholemaster.
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The grounde of artes teaching the perfect vvorke and practise of arithmetike, both in whole nu[m]bers and fractions, after a more easie ane exact sort, than hitherto hath bene set forth. Made by M. Robert Recorde, D. in Physick, and afterwards augmented by M. Iohn Dee. And now lately diligently corrected, [and] beautified with some new rules and necessarie additions: and further endowed with a thirde part, of rules of practize, abridged into a briefer methode than hitherto hath bene published: with diverse such necessary rules, as are incident to the trade of merchandize. Whereunto are also added diuers tables [and] instructions ... By Iohn Mellis of Southwark, scholemaster.
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Record, Robert, 1510?-1558.
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[London] :: Imprinted by I. Harrison, and H. Bynneman,
Anno Dom. 1582.
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Arithmetic -- Early works to 1900.
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"The grounde of artes teaching the perfect vvorke and practise of arithmetike, both in whole nu[m]bers and fractions, after a more easie ane exact sort, than hitherto hath bene set forth. Made by M. Robert Recorde, D. in Physick, and afterwards augmented by M. Iohn Dee. And now lately diligently corrected, [and] beautified with some new rules and necessarie additions: and further endowed with a thirde part, of rules of practize, abridged into a briefer methode than hitherto hath bene published: with diverse such necessary rules, as are incident to the trade of merchandize. Whereunto are also added diuers tables [and] instructions ... By Iohn Mellis of Southwark, scholemaster." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A10530.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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Of siluer coines currant in this Realme
The Edward Crowne of 5 s
The Edward halfe crowne of 2 s 6 d.
The Edward shilling, halfe shilling, and the 3 d.
Philip and Maries shilling and half shilling.
The Marie groat, and Marie 2 d.
Quéene Elizabeths shillings 6 d. 4 d. 3 d. 2 d. 1 d. 3. ob. and 3 q.
It is to be vnderstoode (gentle Reader) that whereas the waight is called by the name of a penny,* 1.1 it is not meant a penny of siluer money, but a penny of Goldsmithes waight, which is 24 Barly cornes drie. And xx. of these pence make an ounce: and twelue of these ounces make a poūd Troy: So that if a man haue not the waight where with to wey any péece that may come to his hand, hée may do it with the Barly graines or cornes being drie and taken out of the middle of the eare. Nowe to Progression.