A short accompt of the first motives and reasons for the milld lead-sheathing, : its excellency and [...]ose that use it; and the suggestions of its extraordinary eating the bolts and ruddar-irons, prov'd to be false and groundless, upon old evidence newly produced and never till now printed [...] in the Milld Lead Company's reply to the late Navy-Boards report to the Lords of the Admiralty against it upon that account only, which reply was pen'd by Secretary Pepys, a person of [...]ers, and with the proceedings relating thereto amongst other things, printed in the year 1691 for publick satisfaction, and several papers since, published by Mr. Hale, [...]thed merchant-men into dock after their several voyages perform'd; asserting the goodness of their sheathing against the idle stories of the shipwrights and their friends, chall[...] their objections if they had any before they went out, while their sheathings might be view'd, and the truth appear to all the world; but none ever answer'd, as well knowing what they [...]d not bear a fair and open test.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hale, Charles, Mr.

Contributor:

Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703.

Series:

Early English books online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sheet lead--Early works to 1800.

Sheet lead.

Lead industry and trade--England--Early works to 1800.

Lead industry and trade.

Sheet-lead.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page))

Place of Publication:

[London : publisher not identified, 1700?]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Author and imprint suggested by Wing.

Imperfect: stained, tightly bound, and mutilated with loss of printing.

Reproduction of original in the British Library.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; C3:2[223]) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

Wing (2nd edition) H223

OCLC:

60827574

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.