The young man's companion: or Arithmetick made easy. Containing, plain directions for a young man to attain to read and write true English; the best and easiest instructions for writing variety of hands, with copies both in prose and verse, digested in an alphabetical order. How to write letters of compliment, friendship, or business. Forms of notes, receipts, bill, bonds, indentures, leases and releases, letters of attorney, wills, &c. Directions how to measure carpenters, joyners, swayers, bricklayers, plaisterers, plummers, masons, glaziers, and painters work. With tables for such as have not learn'd arithmetick. How to compute the charge of building an house, or any part thereof. The rates measuring, gauging, plotting of land by Gunter's chain, and taking heights and distances by the quadrant, &c. of Gunter's line in measuring globes, bullets, walls, &c. The art of dialling, and how to direct and fix any dial: instructions for dying, colouring, and making of colours. With a description of the counties, cities, parishes, and market-towns in England and Wales. Choice monthly observations in gardening, planting, grafting, and inoculating fruit-trees, and the best time to prone them. To which is added, the family-companion for marking of linen, pickling, preserving, making wine of fruit; with many approved and experienced medicines for the poor. Also exact lists of all the fairs in England and Wales, both fix'd and moveable; wherein the market-towns are likewise distinguish'd by the days of the week, on which their markets are held. And also tables of interest at 3, 3 1/2, 4, and 5 per cent. per ann. from one pound progressively to one hundred, and from one day to thirty, and from one month to a year. Written by W. Mather, in a plain and easy stile, that a young man may both readily and easily improve and quality himself for business, without the help of a master.

Date:

1752