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A44350	An account of several new inventions and improvements now necessary for England, in a discourse by way of letter to the Earl of Marlborough, relating to building of our English shipping, planting of oaken timber in the forrests, apportioning of publick taxes, the conservacy of all our royal rivers, in particular that of the Thames, the surveys of the Thames, &c. : Herewith is also published at large The proceedings relating to mill'd-lead-sheathing, and the excellency and cheapness of mill'd-Lead in preference to cast sheet-lead for all other purposes whatsoever. : Also A treatise of naval philosophy, / written by Sir Will. Petty. ; The whole is submitted to the consideration of our English patriots in Parliament assembled.	T. H. (Thomas Hale); Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687. A treatise of naval philosophy.	1691 (1691)	Wing H265; ESTC R28685	111,893	310

bestow'd on them that is to say on the poor Seamen whom that excellent Corporation relieves thereby The Chainage of Ships belongs to the Admiral and the right of the Ferriage over all Rivers between the first Bridges and the Sea is a Perquisite of Admiralty and the right thereof is inherent in the Office of the Admiral and 't is notorious that the Right of the Ballastage in all the other Royal Rivers of England belongs to the Admiral as well as in the River of Thames There is the Perquisite of Anchorage in the Thames as well as elsewhere belonging to the Admiral as are likewise many other Perquisites and that are enumerated in the Admiral 's Patent Nor can any Right belonging to the Admiral be pass'd by the Crown under the Great Seal to any one but by the Admiral 's Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor general To the Lord Mayor as Water-bayly and Conservator of the River of Thames several Fees and Profits belong And to that Office of Conservator belongs the Office of Measuring Coals Grain Fruit in the Port of London with the Fees belonging to it and the Fines imposed in his Court of Conservacy or by the Commissioners of Sewers for Misdemeanors that concern the River and other Perquisites and in the which the Admirals have long ceased to intermeddle and not without cause because of the great Charge incident to the Lord Mayor's Conservacy of the River and particularly in matters relating to the Fishery and the charge that attends the traversing Indictments and removing them to the Kings-Bench as likewise the Charge of suing out Scire Facias ' es to vacate the Grants of particular Persons that entrench on the rights of the Lord Mayor's Conservacy and which Charge they have often supported without being therein assisted by the Lord Admirals I might instance in many passages in the reigns of our Kings long ago concerning the Lord Mayor's applying to the Government when private Courtiers had surreptitiously obtain'd Patents that interloped in the Conservacy of the River as for example Edward the 4 th having made a Grant to the Earl of Pembroke for setting up a Weare in the River of Thames and the Lord Mayor applying to the King about it obtain'd a Scire Facias to vacate that Grant and vigorously prosecuted the vacating thereof to effect And how in the two last Reigns several Lord Mayors with great Industry and Charge prosecuted the vacating of Patents that they judged entrenching on the Conservacy that both by Charter and Prescription belong'd to them is known to every one Nor will the unwearied diligence of those Patriotly Lord Mayors Sir William Pritchard Sir Henry Tulse Sir James Smith Sir Robert Jefferys Sir John Peak in thus shewing their Zeal for the Conservacy of the River be ever forgot while that City keeps Records And they are strangers to the Character of the present Lord Mayor both for integrity and prudence in Political Conduct and his Zeal for maintaining the known Rights of the City who shall think that if he had been at the Helm of them Government of the City when they were he would not have steer'd the same Course as the most active of them did and that with such a Courage as is worthy the high Sphere of Magistracy he moves in A Coward saith one cannot be a good Christian much less a good Magistrate Solomon 's Throne of Ivory was supported by Lyons Innocency and Integrity cannot be preserved in Magistracy without Courage Magistrates are great Blessings Modo audeant quae sentiunt if they dare do their Conscience Me quae te peperi ne Cesses Thorna tueri was the ancient Inscription of the Bridge-house Seal and which may give an occasional hint to any Citizen of London advanced to Authority and Opulency therein to wish well to the defence of that River that hath so long bred and preserv'd the Riches of that City I am here led to observe how that River being pester'd by various Annoyances in the Reign of Henry the 8 th and the Lord Mayor's Offices being made uneasie and hinder'd in the Conservacy of the River the City apply'd to the King for a Proclamation who accordingly issued out one in the 34th Year of his Reign strictly requiring That none should presume to resist or deny or impugne the Lord Mayor or his Deputies in doing or executing any thing that might conduce to the Conservacy of the River c. And methinks the Customary yearly Solemnity of the New Lord Mayor's attended with all the City Companies in their Barges on the Thames and there on that River above Bridge having their first Scene of Triumph as they are going to Westminster-Hall to be sworn should give them occasion to think often of that Rivers preservation in the following part of the Year I am here led to call to mind a fatal danger that that River above Bridge escaped in the Reign of the late King when some were so hardy as to offer him a Proposition and in the way of a Project to enlarge his Revenue by straitning the River and by building another Street between the high and low-water-mark from the Bridge to White-Hall But thô so great a straitning of the River there would not have been so prejudicial to the publick as lesser straitnings of it below bridge where the great Scene of Navigation lyes yet his Majesty with great judgment gave a peremptory denyal to the Proposition for this particular reason namely that such an alteration in the River might perhaps produce an alteration in the Tide of Flood and be the cause of its not flowing so many hours as it doth and which effect too he thought the building of a Bridge at Lambeth a Project that some offer'd to his Consideration might produce it being obvious that the Obstacle the course of the Tide meets with by London bridge doth much occasion the Tide of Flood being the shorter And if great Care had not been taken by the Trinity-house in the government of their Ballast-Lighters and ordering them not to draw up Ballast too near the Banks of the River there would have been great danger of another accident that might have curtail'd the Tide of Flood I mean by their coming nearer to the shoar than the safety of the great Level by Limehouse will admit In the same time that they can draw up one Tun of Ballast in deep Water they may draw up three near the shoar A breach in that Level did within these few Years cost the Proprietors 25000 l. a third part of the value of the Land And if a new greater breach came perhaps it would not be repairable and possibly cause the Thames not to flow up so far as it did and yet doth But any thing of this Nature we may well hope will be prevented by the excellent Management of the Ballast-Office by the industry of that Virtuous and Prudent Lady the Lady Brooks who hath the Lease thereof from the Trinity-house and

again with them for more than a small tripp and that followed by a later from Sir R. B. in October 1682. wherein after her having been abroad he makes the Condition of her Iron-works so miserable as to be under the same wonder he was before that she also had not sunk at Sea whereas it appears even from their own calculations that her first set of Rudder-Irons lasted her four Years and an half which were it a common standand for their duration and then to be renewed would yet leave Lead-sheathing greatly cheaper than that of Wood and her second for ought that appears of any supplies six Years and three quarters 4. From a Certificate of the Officers in Portsmouth-Yard in October 1677. declaring the Condition of the Lyon's Iron-works under water to be such as they never saw in any Ship they ever had to do with not sheathed with Lead though droven twice as long Whereas that Certificate it self does not only expresly confess her Bolts having been all in her five Years but will here furnish your Lordships with one Instance besides the many you may hereafter meet with of what this Company is owing for to the sincerity as well as Thoughtfulness of its Accusers if your Lordships shall please to have their last Assertion examined by the Books of the Navy Officers with whom it carries so much weight this Company being well assured that instead of no Ship not sheathed with Lead being ever found perished in their Iron-work under water in twice five years variety of instances will be met with within much a shorter time 5. From Sir Iohn Narbrough's saying in February 1676. that he had found the condition of the Henrietta's Iron-works no other than that of the forementioned Harwich whereas your Lordships may be pleased here to take notice that the Lords your Predecessors in the Admiralty did by their Order of the 9 th of April 1678. upon some Complaints touching the Iron-works of this Ship recommend to the Officers of the Navy the making a strict enquiry into the general and natural Reasons of this great Evil directing them twice in the same order to the particular case of this Ship For execution whereof the said Officers contented themselves with answering the Lords not with any effects of their own Inquisitions but with a bare Transcript only of Sir R. B's Conceptions thereon from Chatham when had they so thought good they could as well have given their Lorships something of their own by communicating to them the Result of an Occular Survey by them had in their Publick Office this Company being present of the Rudder-Irons themselves sent from Chatham for that purpose where upon the outward coat of the said Irons being eaten off with Rust the inside of their Pintells as never having had their due welding discovered themselves in three several arms or branches like the stalks of so many Tobacco-pipes not only to the removing the wonder of this Ships condition but confirming the suggestion this Company had before made to his Majesty and the Lords touching the Smiths neglects and contributing not a little towards the making a right Judgment in the Matters in question of which more in its due place 6. From Sir R. B's observing in September 1682. the eating off of two of the lower Pintells and Gudgeons wholly and a third in part of the Rose which will not as this Company conceives be thought very extraordinary when it shall be understood that this is the first and only Complaint heard of her not only after two Voyages to Sea and one of them three years long and her having lain now three years more in Salt water in Harbour but after her having worn those Irons eight years and the Complaint it self when all is done amounting only to three Pintells and Gudgeons without any thing objected to the rest of her Iron-works 7. From Sir Iohn Narbrough's Information in Iuly 1678. touching some defectiveness then discovered in the Iames and Charles Gallies which he fears would force him to send them home that Winter as not being repairable in the Streights Whereas the Iames being sheathed and sent forth in October 1676. continued there three years when making a Tripp for England she within two months after returned thither and has there remained to this day being in all six years without ought said by the Officers of the Navy of her having any Recruits of her Rudder-Irons in all that time either at home or abroad And for the Charles which accompanyed the Iames to Sea in October 1676 instead of being driven home as Sir Iohn Narbrough apprehended in 1678. she continued there till about August 1680. being four years and has now remained at home above two years more in all six years without any such repairs alledged to have been given her either in the Streights or here 8. Lastly From these particulars of eight Ships thus circumstanced the Officers of the Navy have held it reasonable to assert to your Lordships their having received Complaints of the extraordinary Corrosion of the Iron-works of every of his Majesties Ships sheathed with Lead Whereas these make but eight of twenty so sheathed without any thing either offered now or heretofore appearing to this Company in exception to the other twelve viz. Mary Defiance Woolwich Bristol Hampshire Foresight Phoenix Assistance Kingsfisher Hunter Vulture Norwich but on the contrary many Instances might be drawn from them in advantage to the Credit of Lead-sheathing of much more force were that the business of this Paper than any thing of what has been before offered to its diminution But this Company humbly referrs your Lordships for that to the Navy Officers contenting themselves with an Appeal only to the Phoenix and Norwich the first and last of all the twenty The former of which coming home after two Voyages and three years spent therein happened as has been already mentioned to Carreene at Sheerness where his Majesty receiving full satisfaction in her having answered all that was aimed at in this sheathing she from thence proceeded to Guiny and after return in 1674. was sent to Iamaica Voyages all calculated for the proving her against the Worm and coming back was in 1677. stripp'd of her sheathing and then sent abroad unsheathed without having one Bolt under water shifted from her being so sheathed to that day being seven years And for the Norwich we are well informed that not one word of Advice much less of Complaint has ever been received either from her Commanders or any other hand of the least defect discovered in any of her Iron-work under water during the whole four years time of her service in the West-Indies from her first sheathing to the day of her Miscarriage Nor does this Company after having thus opened the matters of Fact reported in these Complaints conceive it will appear to your Lordships less allowable for them in this place to make one Remark upon what the Officers of the Navy have

At the Court at White-Hall Decemb. 22. 1682. Present The KING 's most Excellent Majesty in Council IT is this day Ordered by his Majesty in Council that the whole Matter contained in the Report of the Officers of the Navy to the Right Honourable the Commissioners of the Admiralty this day read at the Board and the Answer thereto from Sir Philip Howard and Company relating to the Sheathing his Majesty's Ships with Lead together with the other Paper then also delivered and read from the Officers of the Navy and what new Matter was further mentioned by them in Discourse upon the same Subject be Referred to the said Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of England who upon the full and distinct Examination of the same and Hearing of all Persons concerned therein are to make their Report upon each Article thereof in Writing to this Board with particular regard had therein to the shewing the differences of Charge that has attended his Majesty whether in Iron-work or otherwise upon the Hulls and Rudders of the several Ships that have been sheathed with Lead and those that within the same time have been either Sheathed with Wood or sent to Sea Vnsheathed And if upon Examination it shall appear that Lead-sheathed●ships do sustain greater damage in their Iron-works than those Sheathed with Wood or Not Sheathed at all what the same is truly to be imputed to whether to their Lead Nails or what other Cause In all which the said Commissioners are to report to this Board the Truth of the Fact as the same shall upon Examination appear to them with their Opinion touching the same and what upon the whole Matter may be most for His Majesty's Service to be done therein with relation to the ceasing or continuing the said Method of Sheathing Francis Gwyn Hereupon Sir Philip Howard and Company further applyed themselves to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty in their humble Memorial following viz. To the Right Honourable The LORDS His MAJESTY's Commissioners For executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of England The Humble MEMORIAL of Sir Philip Howard and Company Interested in the Manufacture and Invention OF Milled-Lead Shewing THat His Majesty and my Lords of the Council having out of the same Consideration of its Importance to the King which led your Lordships first to the laying it before them been pleased by their Order of 22 Decemb. last to Referr back to your Lordships the Business in Controversie between the Officers of the Navy and this Company touching Lead-sheathing These are humbly to acquaint your Lordships that as we are and shall at all times be ready to answer any Commands which you shall think fit to direct to this Company in relation thereto so do we hold our selves bound in Right no less to his Majesty and your Lordships than our selves to remove a Prejudice which the said Officers did lately offer at the raising before his Majesty in Council against what we had then and may yet have further Occasion of saying in this Debate by a suggestion of our being governed by Considerations of Self-interest while themselves would be thought removed above all suspicion of any other End herein than that of His Majesties Service In Answer whereto we shall only crave leave to say That as to that Uninterestedness so pretended to by them it is too manifest that their obtaining from your Lordships a suddain Condemnation of this Method of Lead-sheathing is the only Expedient they have for preventing the Effects of that Enquiry which the Wisdom of His Majesty and the Lords of the Council have been so pleased to recommend to your Lordships into the particulars of our Answer leading your Lordships to the several Failures in Duty and breach of Orders reflected on them by us in relation to this Affair and the Prejudices sustained therefrom by his Majesty And for what concerns the Self-interest suggested to lye on our side we shall only Note 1. That under all the Discouragements and Oppositions our Invention has for twelve Years together been treated with by them we never have given them nor our selves the trouble of making one Complaint to his Majesty or your Lordships concerning them saving what has been extorted from us in our necessary Reply to their late Report to your Honourable Board on this Subject nor in the whole four Years last past wherein they have for ought appears both without and contratrary to Order taken upon them the Exercising even that which is the very Matter of the present Controversie namely the Adviseableness of laying aside the use of Lead-sheathing have we ever made one Application to them for removing or so much as enquiring into the Rea●on on their so doing 2. That had there been the least sollicitude on our parts after our private benefit it would have easily prompted us to a much greater reservedness of Style than your Lordships find us using on this occasion towards the said Officers upon whose good-will alone the success of ours and all other Contracts with the Navy is well known wholly to depend Nor does this Company need to appeal to any other Evidence than your selves for the Fidelity of their Proceeding in this Matter towards His Majesty in preference to any thoughts of private Advantage after that Declaration under our Hands wherewith we Prefaced our very first Paper to your Lordships on this Occasion not only of our Consent but Desires that No Considerations relating to the Interest or Right of this Company might stand in the way of whatsoever His Majesty and your Lordships should think most for his Service to determine concerning it 3. That besides the many other Advantages arising to His Majesty from this Invention the saving of his Treasure will we doubt not in your Enquiry be found concerned in a no less Degree than that of 60 l. or a much greater summe per Cent. through the whole of his Expence of Lead-sheathing compared with that of Wood or sending Ships to Sea Unsheathed Upon which Consideration and of the good Husbandry the present State of his Majesty's Treasure seems in so particular a measure at this time to call for as also for our fuller Discharge against the Consequences of any Mistake that may attend the issue of a Debate of such Importance to the Royal Navy of England We do on his Majesty's-behalf humbly pray and must take leave to insist upon with your Lordships not only that the Contents of our late Reply in this Cause may receive your due Construction and Examination with respect to what we have therein and do still assert touching the True Causes and Remedy of the Evil in Controversie about Ships Iron-works But that whatsoever your Lordships shall in Order to his Majesty's Service which alone we again desire your having any regard to find Cause of requiring further from the said Officers on this Subject may be mutually transacted between us in Writing and not otherwise In which we shall