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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

AN ADVERTISEMENT Shewing that all former Objections AGAINST THE MILLD-LEAD Sheathing Have been Answered by the NAVY-BOARD themselves And what 's lately Objected is Answered herein as follows ALthough the Objections against this Sheathing have been fully answered by the Mill'd-Lead Company 's Reply made to the late Navy-Boards Report which was dated Octob. 28. 1682. to the then Lords of the Admiralty printed in the Year 1691. and by the other Papers since published by Mr. Hale the same might all have been well enough spared that Board having indeed sufficiently answer'd themselves by their own Contract with the said Company dated March 3. 1675. and their said Report it self if nothing but what they say therein had been taken notice of For In the Preamble of their said Contract after five years Trial upon ten Ships within that time sheathed they owned to have entred into the same upon sufficient Proof and Experience of the Goodness and Usefulness of the said Sheathing having forborn to enter into a formal Contract till then that they might make what Observations of any defects they could themselves or what its watchful Adversaries should discover to them a time long enough to have discerned its monstrous eating of the Ruddar-Irons so much complain'd of afterwards if there had been any such thing By their said Report in 1682. made after twelve years Experience upon twenty Ships that had been sheathed within that time having nothing to object against its keeping on duration and certain security from the Worm or any thing else they complained only of this Sheathings extraordinary eating and corroding the Bolts and Ruddar-Irons and that but of eight of those twenty saying nothing of the rest and by their Complaints those eight differed exceedingly amongst themselves some lasting above twice as long as others and some of the Irons of the same Ruddar complain'd of to be very much eaten whilst others were said to remain good and serviceable which different Effects not being possible in the Nature of Things to proceed from one and the same Cause Lead-Sheathing they should have found out another or have been willing to have hearkened to those that did who charged this different duration upon the Smith's better or worse mixing welding and working his Iron with Fire and Hammer and proved it by an ocular Evidence upon view of the Henrietta's Iron-work produced at their own Board as in Pag. 14. of their said Reply that alone and only that being able to answer the great variety of decay that now is and ever was upon all Ships sheathed or not sheathed before Lead-sheathing was ever thought of which could not be but the decays must be always conformable to their Causes if the sheathing either way or not sheathing at all were any wise concerned therein And thus from their own Act and the very Complaints annexed to the said Report they may find all their Objections fully answered So hard a thing it is for Men not to contradict themselves when once they go about to contradict the Truth But since these Reasons being now generally taken notice of expose those Objections to Contempt another is advanced which at first seeming somewhat plausible ought to be answered as well as the rest viz. That there having been so many Persons some of Wealth and good Quality all along concerned in this Work till now of late it could not be that this Sheathing should be so laid aside all this while but that it must in sixteen or seventeen years time have been restored again to the Vse of the Navy if there had been any Truth in what Hale says and so much real Worth and Excellency in the thing it self as he pretends This Insinuation being natural enough and likely to prevail with some not to trouble themselves to read or mind what Hale has printed upon this occasion he finds himself obliged to give some Answer to it and hopes he may be excused if in his own Defence he mentions some Persons and Circumstances that did occurr in this Affair which he hath hitherto omitted that the World may judge who and what sort of Men they are beholden to for this delay and depriving the Publick of the benefit of so useful an Invention all this while or whether it be in truth owing to its own Deficiency and want of Merit in it self which he proceeds to do by these following steps viz. 1. While the Complaints about the Ruddar-Irons lay before that Navy-Board the Parties concerned attended them and thought they had then given them sufficient Reasons from the different duration always observed in the Iron-work that the Lead-sheathing could be no wise concerned therein or if they were not presently satisfied they believed at least the King having commanded them by the Admiralties Order of Dec. 20.1673 printed in Pag. 6. of the said Reply positively to sheath no otherwise than with Mill'd-Lead without their Lordship's express Order and they having by several Orders in April and May 1678 as in Pag. 10. 44. made for their better Enquiry into this Matter and directed them to demand Ruddar-Irons from the Mill'd-Lead Company for such Ships they should afterwards sheath upon their Proposal to undertake the making of them that they would not leave off this Sheathing totally without Order tho' they had had no Demands from the Board for a long time when they had heard several Ships had been sheathed with Wood for which Age Weakness or some reason or other was pretended but never that they had wholly laid it aside So that the Company remained in continual Expectation of Demands at one time or other till they were surprized with the said Report by which means they were abused and deluded out of above four years of their time all which is set forth in their Reply Pag. 10. 24 25. 2. The Mill'd-Lead Company having put in their Reply to the said Report and the Lords of the Admiralty having order'd the Commissioners of the Navy to attend read the same to them telling them they must in some convenient time put in their Answer in Writing to which they excusing themselves saying they had not leisure nor skill to write such fine Discourses but were well assured there was Cause enough for the Complaints they had exhibited My Lord Nottingham told them the thing importing such great Pretensions to His Majesty's Service it was too hot for their Fingers they would lay it before the Council Board let them get what time they could or do as they pleased there which his Lordship being one of the Members of that Board as well as of the Admiralty accordingly did and the Council upon hearing both sides Dec. 22. 1682. the Particulars being many referred the same back again to the Admiralty to examine and report as in Pag. 51. Whereupon the Company made their farther Address to that Board printed Pag. 54. but were kept in hand by delays and one pretence or other not being able to obtain any Report according to