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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03664	An advertisement shewing that all former objections against the mill'd-lead sheathing have been answered by the navy-board themselves. And what's lately objected, is answered herein, as follows.	Hale, Charles, Mr.	1696 (1696)	Wing H219; ESTC R226291	6,843	4

the Reference before their Commission was determined which was in May 1684. so that here there was above a year and an half 's time more lost 3. Afterwards King Charles took the Office of Lord High Admiral into his own hands managed by the Duke of York and Mr. Pepys his Secretary of which the Mill'd-Lead Company had great hopes to find the good effects he having always approved their Sheathing and himself having penned their Reply abovementioned and Mr. Hewer his Chief Clerk being as he knew one of their Partners recommended by King Charles under his Sign Manual to avoid Envy with particular Directions to take care that their Work should be duly promoted in the Navy but the same Navy-Board being continued in Commission the remainder of King Charles's and beginning of King James's Reign they pretended not to have Power enough but doubted not in convenient time to see the Lead-sheathing restored which the Company might be sure they would take all opportunity to promote so that almost two years more was spent in these Expectations 4. But now that the oeconomy and method of the whole Affairs of the Navy and even the Navy-Board it self were new modelled and managed according to Mr. Pepys his Proposal to King James upon a Commission dated April 17. 16●6 as appears by his Memoirs printed in the year 1690. when himself was in effect Lord High Admiral and Sir Anthony Deane a professed Friend to the Lead-sheathing from the beginning and Mr. Hewer and others who Mr. Pepys approved were made Commissioners of the Navy Upon this Project of Reformation and good Husbandry to the Crown one should have thought that this Lead-sheathing had not been far from its Restauration but whatever occult or corroding Quality there may lye conceal'd in the Mill'd-Lead Sheathing in respect of the Ruddar-Irons there seems to be something extraordinary in the very Essence and Constitution of a Commissioner or Officer of the Navy in respect of that for after this new Commission the Company thought themselves sure of a speedy dispatch and therefore made little Application for some time depending upon their Partner Mr. Hewer and his known and their seeming Friends especially it now becoming their Duty as they knew it to be a great Service to the King for encouragement to apply themselves formally to their Board but were kept in hand by one pretence or other still for nine months more when Mr. Hewer being able to excuse the delay no longer advised his Partners to make a new Proposal to their Board to sheath at a rate certain per yard square and to wave the old Contract and all Discourse about the Complaints saying he believed those that had been concerned therein were now better satisfied they had been misled and would take it well to hear no more thereof so the Company laid before them their Proposal dated Dec. 20. 1686. printed Pag. 60. But even after this they were upon the like pretences of unseasonableness from pressing Business or want of compliance in some of their Members which they hoped to satisfie though there was but one of those that had subscribed the Report remaining at their Board delayed about four months more At length finding Mr. Hewer did nothing Dr. Davenant one of the Partners being related to my Lord Falkland prevailed with his Lordship to move the Board that their new Proposal might be referred to some of their own Members to consider and Report their Opinions which could not easily be deny'd and so it was referred to Sir Annhony Deane and Sir Phineas Pett Commissioner at Chatham Sir Anthony being there when Mr. Hale writ to them from the Company to put them in mind of making their Report before they parted not doubting but it would be a fair one Sir Phineas having also certified formerly in favour of the Lead-sheathing and refusing to sign the said Report against it with the rest of that Board 5. Hale waiting upon Sir Anthony at his Return which was about a fortnight after asked him if they had made their Report What Report says he seeming strange Why yours says Hale and Sir Phineas Pett's upon the Boards Reference to you of our Proposal That says he I have reported forty and forty times That I am satisfied your Sheathings an excellent thing and best for the King's Service but you must speak to Narbrough and Berry you know that I am always ready to promote it They mind not says Hale what we say you must satisfie them with the Reasons you are satisfied your selves or the Board must proceed without them but if you don't report your Opinions in Writing how can the Board go on with their Reference to contract with us Why says he you would not have us report it is cheaper Yes says Hale but I would it 150 per Cent. be cheaper which you know Mr. Pepys Mr. Hewer and your Self found by Calculation with respect to its duration from the navy-Navy-Books I being present Ay duration says he sheering off you must speak 〈◊〉 them you may be sure I 'll do what I can Thereupon Hale having writ to Sir Phineas Pett received his Answer That Sir Anthony Deane had the Papers from the Navy-Board in his keeping saying You must get Mr. Hewer to speak to him to dispatch it for my part I am ready to sign a Report at any time Mr. Hewer was told this and Sir Anthony said he would acquaint the Board with what they had to say as well as if 't were in Writing all pretending fairly blaming others but still with promising hopes whilst those concerned began now to discern how they had been deluded for about two years more which will appear farther confirmed in the next Paragraph 6. The Company now thought it adviseable to apply themselves to some Person of Quality at Court for their assistance in hopes of fairer Quarter as they found at the beginning while my Lord Carlisle was their Partner which my Lord Marlbrough having accepted of they mentioned it to his Lordship to present a Petition to the King that whereas they had such a Proposal that had lain so long before the Navy-Board His Majesty would be pleased to order them to admit thereof or to give their Reasons in Writing why they did not which his Lordship approved and accordingly such a Petition was prepared and by him put into the hands of Mr. Pepys to be delivered not doubting Success if He should but appear sincere at last who had taken such pains throughly to inform himself therein and had so often declared his approbation thereof upon full Conviction to use his own Words that it was a great Service to the King and promised the Company at his first Return to his Office to promote the Use of it whenever it came in his way to do 't and sure that could not be question'd now 7. But even he also appeared plainly to have another Interest now to preferr pretending difficulty to restore it having been so