When were st, nd, rd, and th, first used [closed]

When were numeric contractions for ordinals first used, as in 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 6^th instead of first, second, third, sixth?

According to Wikipedia, in Latin, ordinals were indicated by superscripts on Roman numerals.

XX^ovicensimo

Not all languages currently do this; for example German and most Eastern European languages do not. Most Romance languages do, along with a number of others, including Dutch and English.

In English, Wikipedia says these started out as superscripts: 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, but during the 20^th century they migrated to the baseline: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th.

So the practice started during the Roman empire, and probably was continuously used since then in the Romance languages.

I don't know when it was adopted in English. Here is a pamphlet entitled:

Mr. PRYNNE's New-Year's-GIFT,
to the Rump-Parliament &c.
The 1ſt of January, 1648-9.

So it goes back a long way … I would suspect that you can find these contractions near the beginning of printed matter in English.