Table of Contents:
  • I. Rules and directions for keeping books after the modern way
  • II. Examples of various kinds of books for keeping an accompt of landed estates, rents of houses, &c. in the most concise and eligible manner
  • III. The current prices of church and laymens estates all over England, whether in fee, or copyholds ... IV. Methods whereby a gentleman may cast up the value of any of the above-named estates by common arithmetick
  • V. Advice about purchases in general
  • VI. A specimen of a rental book, cash book, journal and leger, of an estate kept after the merchants way of keeping their books, commonly called the Italian method, or double entry.