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■ in,* the .-.fifteenth Century, fotte df 'th$. 
Pages are fo numbered a . Which Method, fo far as 
appears, was always attended to, and never in any 
one. Inftance inverted. So that this Wore eft er Date, 
tyhifch ha$ a : Roman Numeral in the, Place of Unites, 
and the t\vo preceding Gharadters are fuppofed to be 
Indian Figures, is not only without Example, but di- 
rectly contrary to all other Inftances of fuch mixed 
Numbers. Which Confideration alone might be a 
fufficient Ground to think, there muft be fome Miftake 
in the Reading. 
But the middle Figure, taken for a Seven, is as re- 
markable ; which turning towards the left Hand, 
forms two obtufe Angles, one above, and the other 
below. This Shape of the Seven, I believe, was never 
feen before, and feems by no means to fuit that Age. 
In the'Specimen of the Figures taken ixQmJohann.es 
de Saero Bofco , by Dr. JV allis y which may be feen in 
tbeTable annexed to my formerPaper [JWTab. It. 
Fig . i.] the Figure Seven is made in this Form A, 
like the two 1 egs of an ifofceles Triangle. And in 
Roger Bacon's Calendar , dated 1191, there is only 
this Variation *, that the Leg to the left Hand is fome- ' 
what ftiortened, as will appear likewife by the fame 
. Table. And this Form continued till Printing was 
introduced among us ; as is evident from Caxton's 
Rolychronicon , and other Books printed about that 
Time. Nor do I find it till later Times in any other 
Shape; unlefs that in Bifliop Beverege's Table of 
Indian Figures, the two Legs of our antient Seven 
are drawn parallel, and arched at the Top, in this 
a X>,e Re DipIom. Tab. XY r . 
manner * 
