Excerpt from The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select It was generally supposed at his death, that he had putlarge sums in the hands of a banker, or lent them to some tradesman in London, without taking any memorandum; all which were lost to his heirs, as he would never say to whom he lent them. He was afraid, perhaps, lest he should hear it was lost; for there are some that can bear to suspect, though not to know positively, that their riches have taken to themselves wings. After more than thirty years living a recluse, he was at last found dead in his bed, at the age of seventy. The gentleman who accompanied him to the Town Hall, when he went to take the oath of alle giance, talked with him on every subject he could recollect, without discovering in him the least tinc ture of madness. He rallied himself on the per petual motion, laughed at the folly of confining himself in-doors, and said he believed he should, some time or other, come abroad again, like other men. He was always esteemed a person of good understanding, before his shutting himself up. At the time of his death, he was building a house, the walls of which were seven feet thick. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.