Along with James Peele and John Dee, Mellis is one of the first authors who contributed to the accounting literature.
However, Mellis revised and reissued this book whose original compiler was Hugh Oldcastle.
[1] Hugh Oldcastle was said to be a compiler because this accounting book is the translation of Luca Paccioli's Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita (Venice, 1494).
Although, the name appears as Mellin instead of Mellis, Cannan's mistake stems from W. R. Scott's misspelling of the name in his book 'Constitution and Finance of English, Scottish and Irish Joint Stock Companies to 1720[3]
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