Note 1 — AMEN CORNER, E.C. 4. 1922.
Reading edition
Halliwell printed the two sides of his leaf in the wrong order. This and some obvious errors of transcription—‘ferye’ for ‘ferthe,’ ‘lest’ for ‘left,’ etc., have not been corrected in the reprint on pp. 70-71.
2. For Egyptian use see Herodotus, ii. 36, Plato, de Legibus, VII.
3. See on this Dr. Poole, The Exchequer in the Twelfth Century, Chap. III., and Haskins, Eng. Hist. Review, 27, 101. The hidage of Essex in 1130 was 2364 hides.
4. These figures are removed at the next step.
5. Slates are mentioned by Chaucer, and soon after (1410) Prosdocimo de Beldamandi speaks of the use of a “lapis” for making notes on by calculators.
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