Produced by Louise Hope, David Starner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Transcriber’s Note: This e-text includes characters that will only display in UTF-8 (Unicode) text readers: ȝ, ſ (yogh, long s) ɳ, łł (n with curl, crossed l: see below) φ (Greek phi: see below) ʷ (small raised “w”) If any of these characters do not display properly, or if the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, make sure your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding” is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change the default font. In _The Crafte of Nombrynge_, final “n” was sometimes written with an extra curl. It has been rendered as ɳ for visual effect; the character is not intended to convey phonetic information. In the same selection, the numeral “0” was sometimes printed as Greek φ (phi); this has been retained for the e-text. Double “l” with a line is shown as łł. The first few occurrences of “d” (for “pence”) were printed with a decorative curl. The letter is shown with the same “d’” used in the remainder of the text. The word “withdraw” or “w{i}t{h}draw” was inconsistently hyphenated; it was left as printed, and line-end hyphens were retained. Superscripts are shown with carets as ^e. Except for [Illustration] markers and similar, all brackets are in the original. Individual letters were italicized to show expanded abbreviations; these are shown in br{ac}es. Other italicized words are shown conventionally with _lines_, boldface with +marks+. When a footnote called for added text, the addition is shown in the body text with [[double brackets]]. The original text contained at least five types of marginal note. Details are given at the end of the e-text, followed by a listing of typographical errors.] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The Earliest Arithmetics in English Early English Text Society. Extra Series, No. CXVIII. 1922 (for 1916). THE EARLIEST ARITHMETICS IN ENGLISH Edited With Introduction by ROBERT STEELE London: Published for the Early English Text Society By Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, Amen Corner, E.C. 4. 1922. [Titles (list added by transcriber): The Crafte of Nombrynge The Art of Nombryng Accomptynge by Counters The arte of nombrynge by the hande APP. I. A Treatise on the Numeration of Algorism APP. II. Carmen de Algorismo] INTRODUCTION