Dutch reckoning

Noun

 * 1)  A (falsified) bill that is not itemised, and that is unjustifiably high.
 * 2) * 1712, Roger Coke, A Detection Of The Court and State Of England During The Four Last Reigns, page 22:
 * As if all Light of Reasoning were so shut up in Clavius his Brain, that because he does not see, the rest of Mankind must be blind; and what is that way of Reasoning that he betakes himself to, but by huddling the Principles of Geometry into Confusion, without order of method of Reasoning, to make a Conclusion, like a Dutch Reckoning of Allem-al?
 * 1) * 1828, Death on Board-Wages, published in Tales of an Antiquary (volume 2 of 3) by Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, London:
 * "You knows we never took Mike's duds till you couldn't pay his charges any longer; and since we comes to that, there's two weeks of three shillings and sixpence due for your lodging in the Star-Chamber, for yourself and Master Lionel Falconer, which I supposes you means to pay with a Dutch reckoning: you sees I can speak some names right enough,&mdash;d'ye take me,&mdash;hey?" and with an ill-natured leer he left the hall.
 * 1)  A false or incorrect reckoning of position.
 * 1 March 1625 in the Dutch reckoning was, in the English reckoning of the time, 19 February 1624.
 * 1 March 1625 in the Dutch reckoning was, in the English reckoning of the time, 19 February 1624.
 * 1 March 1625 in the Dutch reckoning was, in the English reckoning of the time, 19 February 1624.