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1 The OED records the following forms of “tally”: “Middle English–1500s taly(e, 1500s tallye, tallee, tale, 1500s–1600s talie, tallie, talle.” See “Tally, N. (1).” Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford UP, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/3726950006. For a 1510 example of “tally” spelled as “taylle,” see The National Archives (TNA), State Papers (SP) 1/2 fol. 52r. For a 1523 example of “tallies” spelled as “Tailles,” see TNA, SP 1/27, fol. 208r. For a 1525 example of “tallies” spelled as “tayles,” see SP 1/234, fol. 250r. For a 1546 example of “tally” spelled as “Taylie,” see Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII, edited by J. S. Brewer, J. Gairdner and R. H. Brodie, vol. 21, part 2, His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1910, no. 634 (5). Examples could easily be multiplied.