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 Two gentlemen who had been left execu4 tors of the will ofa friend, on examining tho property lcft by the testatOr, found they could not discharge the legacies by some hundreds of pounds; astonished at this circumstance. as the deceased frequently informed them he should havc more than sufficient for that purpose, they made the most diligent search possible among his pnpers, &c., and found n scrap of paper on which was written 'sev- en hundred pounds ($3395) in TM.' This they took in the literal sense of it; but as their friend had never been in trade, they thought it singular that he should keep such n sum of money in q till {; however, they ex- amined all apartments carefully, but in vain. and after repeated attempts to discover it. gave over the scarch. They sold his collec- ton of books to an eminent bookseller. and paid the legacies in proportion. The singu- iariiy of the circumstance occasioned them frequently to converse about it. and they TO. collected among tho books sold there was a folio edition of Tillotson's Sermons. The probability of this being what was alluded to bv the word Till, on the piece of paper, made one of them wait on the bookseller who had purchased the books and asked him if he had the edition of Tillotson. which had been among the books sold to him! On his replying in the affirmative. andthe volumes being hnnded down, the gentleman inmedi- a,ely purchased them, and on examining the leaves found bank notes singularly dispeTs- ed in various parts of the volumes to the amount of E70O. But what is perhaps still no less remarkable. tho bookseller informed him that gentleman in Oxford. reading in his catalogue of this edition. had written Co him, and desired that it might be sent to him, which was accordingly done. but the bindings of the book not meeting with the gcntlemnn's appreciation, they had been re- snrned and laid upon his (the bookaeiiersl shelves until the day the notes were found. ! London pcpsr. {