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William Scott, of Doctors Commons, in trust for the following uses: That is to say, to pay to the representatives of the late William Innys, bookseller, in St, Paul's Church-yard, the sum of two hundred pounds; to Mrs. White, my female servant, one hundred pounds stock in the three per cent. annuitites aforesaid.
His legacy of two hundred pounds to the representatives of Mr. Innys, bookseller, in St. He told Sir John Hawkins, that his father having become a bankrupt, Mr. Innys had assisted him with money or credit to continue his business. The amount of his property proved to be considerably more than he had supposed it to be.
The Essays met with the success they deserved. Hume wrote to Henry Home in June, 1742: "The Essays are all sold in London, as I am informed by two letters from English gentlemen of my acquaintance. There is a demand for them; and, as one of them tells me, Innys, the great bookseller in Paul's Churchyard, wonders there is not a new edition, for he cannot find copies for his customers.
'Innys, the great bookseller in Paul's Church-yard, wonders there is not a new edition, for that he cannot find copies for his customers. J.H. Burton's Hume, i. 143. 'Johnson asked him whether any of the family of Faden the printer were living.
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