_M._ So wyll I do as touchynge hole nomber, and as for broken nomber, I wyll not trouble your wytte with it, tyll you haue practised this so well, y^t you be full perfecte, so that you nede not to doubte in any poynte that I haue taught you, and thenne maye I boldly enstructe you in y^e arte of fractions or broken no{m}ber, wherin I wyll also showe you the reasons of all that you haue nowe learned. But yet before I make an ende, I wyll showe you the order of co{m}men castyng, wher in are bothe pennes, shyllynges, and poundes, procedynge by no grounded reason, but onely by a receaued [*131a] fourme, and that dyuersly of dyuers men: for marchau{n}tes vse one fourme, and auditors an other: [Headnote: Merchants’ Casting Counters.] [Sidenote: Merchants’ casting.] But fyrste for marchauntes fourme marke this example here, o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o in which I haue expressed this summe 198 l’i.[{2}] 19 s. 11 d’. So that you maye se that the lowest lyne serueth for pe{n}nes, the next aboue for shyllynges, the thyrde for poundes, and the fourth for scores of pou{n}des. And farther you maye se, that the space betwene pennes and shyllynges may receaue but one counter (as all other spaces lyke wayes do) and that one standeth in that place for 6 d’. Lyke wayes betwene the shyllynges {and} the pou{n}des, one cou{n}ter standeth for 10 s. And betwene the poundes and 20 l’i. one counter standeth for 10 pou{n}des. But besyde those you maye see at the left syde of shyllynges, that one counter standeth alone, {and} betokeneth 5 s. [*131b] So agaynste the poundes, that one cou{n}ter standeth for 5 l’i. And agaynst the 20 poundes, the one counter standeth for 5 score pou{n}des, that is 100 l’i. so that euery syde counter is 5 tymes so moch as one of them agaynst whiche he standeth. [Sidenote: Auditors’ casting.] Now for the accompt of auditors take this example. o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o