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<HEAD><HI>MILL'D LEAD, DEMONSTRATED</HI> To be a <HI>better</HI> and more durable <HI>Covering</HI> for Buildings, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and above <HI>20 per Cent.</HI> cheaper than <HI>Ca&s;t-Lead</HI> can be; &s;uppo&s;ing that to be <HI>16 <ABBR>s</ABBR></HI> and this but <HI>13 <ABBR>s</ABBR></HI> a Hundred.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">And al&s;o for <HI>Sheathing</HI> Ships against the <HI>Worm,</HI> better, and above <HI>Cent. per Cent.</HI> cheaper than the ordinarie&s;t <HI>Wood-Sheathing</HI> can be.</HEAD>
<P>TO prove the fir&s;t, only two <HI>Axioms,</HI> or moral Truths (which will need no probation) are required to be granted, by which the Matters of Fact evi|dent in the Ca&s;e may be examined.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="Axiom"> That the heat of the <HI>Sun</HI> being allowed to be the common Cau&s;e of drawing, and con&s;equently of cockling and cracking a <HI>Lead-Covering,</HI> the Beams thereof, which fall with <HI>equal</HI> force upon an <HI>unequal</HI> Body (&s;uch as a Sheet of <HI>Cast-Lead</HI> is) mu&s;t draw the <HI>thinner</HI> and weaker parts more than the <HI>thicker</HI> and &s;tronger.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="Axiom"> That if a <HI>Plumber,</HI> or at lea&s;t-wi&s;e two of the Chief <HI>Ma&s;ter-Plumbers</HI> in <HI>London,</HI> joining together, &s;hall (upon a Wager or Trial of Skill, wherein their In|tere&s;t is highly concerned) undertake to ca&s;t <HI>Sheets</HI> of <HI>Lead,</HI> not <HI>thinner</HI> through|out the <HI>whole Sheet,</HI> than the Size required, and very little <HI>thicker</HI> in any place, they will ca&s;t as well, and as near <HI>equality,</HI> and the Size given as they can; and that the <HI>Sheets</HI> ca&s;t by them in &s;uch a Trial, or at lea&s;t in two &s;uch Trials, ought to be taken for the greate&s;t certainty, Standard, and <HI>be&s;t Ca&s;ting</HI> any <HI>Plumber</HI> can pretend to; or at lea&s;t-wi&s;e that &s;uch Ca&s;ting is much better than what any Cu&s;tomer in the common cour&s;e of their Trade can expect from them. This being granted.</P>
<P>From the fir&s;t <HI>Axiom</HI> it follows, That if the <HI>Plumber</HI> could Ca&s;t exactly equal to the <HI>thinner</HI> parts of his <HI>Sheet,</HI> his <HI>Ca&s;t-Lead</HI> would make a better <HI>Covering</HI> than to be thicker in one place than in another; for that the <HI>thicker</HI> and <HI>&s;tronger</HI> parts re|&s;i&s;ting the <HI>Sun beams</HI> more than the <HI>thinner</HI> and <HI>weaker,</HI> tho&s;e parts mu&s;t &s;tay behind whil&s;t the <HI>weaker</HI> move; which motion by degrees cockles and cracks the <HI>Sheet;</HI> whereas if the <HI>Sheet</HI> were exactly equal as the <HI>Mill'd-Lead</HI> is, it would by the <HI>equal force</HI> falling thereon, move or &s;tay <HI>equally</HI> as the <HI>Mill'd-Lead</HI> does, where no other Cau&s;e or Accident occurs. Here note al&s;o, that this exce&s;s of <HI>thickne&s;s</HI> in &s;ome places, is not only unnece&s;&s;arily paid for, but it helps forward the ruine of the re&s;t.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mill'd-Lead for Co|verings Better.</NOTE> Wherefore <HI>Mill'd-Lead,</HI> which is exactly <HI>equal,</HI> tho' no <HI>thicker</HI> than the <HI>thinner</HI> part of a <HI>Ca&s;t-Sheet,</HI> mu&s;t be allowed to be a <HI>better,</HI> and more du|rable <HI>Covering</HI> than <HI>Ca&s;t-Lead.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="Ob&s;."> <HI>The</HI> Mill'd-Lead Company <HI>having in the Year</HI> 1678. <HI>made a Propo&s;al to the then</HI> Navy-Board, <HI>to make their Scuppers of</HI> Mill'd-Lead, <HI>one Mr.</HI> Par&s;ons <HI>a</HI> Plumber <HI>they had employ'd in that Work, oppo&s;ed it; pretending, That altho' their</HI> Ca&s;t-Lead <HI>was not exactly</HI> equal, <HI>yet the</HI> inequality <HI>was &s;o incon&s;iderable that the</HI> Mill'd-Lead <HI>Scuppers being propo&s;ed at</HI> 4 <ABBR>s</ABBR> <HI>a hundred more than theirs, they would be much dearer to the King. The</HI> Board <HI>then asked him, What allowance of</HI> inequality <HI>he re|quired? He an&s;wer'd, Not above</HI> half-a-Pound <HI>in</HI> Ten: <HI>Whereupon they ordered each to make</HI> 36 <HI>Scuppers of three &s;everal &s;izes and thickne&s;s,</HI> viz. <HI>of</HI> 8 <HI>pound,</HI> 10 <HI>pound, and</HI> 12 <HI>pound to the foot-&s;quare; which caution to the</HI> Plumber, <HI>That his</HI> Lead <HI>&s;hould not be</HI> thinner <HI>in the</HI> thinne&s;t parts <HI>than their Demand, as little</HI> thicker <HI>any where as he could: Which he undertook; and both &s;ides having &s;ent in their Scuppers, the</HI> Mill'd-Lead <HI>which could ea&s;ily be conformable to any</HI> thickne&s;s <HI>de&s;ired, weighed but</HI> 8 <HI>hundred,</HI> 1 <HI>quarter</HI> 26 <HI>pound; whereas the</HI> Ca&s;t-Lead <HI>Scuppers weigh|ed</HI> 12 <HI>hundred</HI> 3 <HI>quarters</HI> 10 <HI>pound, about</HI> &frac13; <HI>part in&s;tead of</HI> 1/25 <HI>more: This &s;o much
<PB N="2" REF="2" MS="y">exceeding his &V;ndertaking, and he pretending carele&s;ne&s;s of Servants, and other Ex|cu&s;es, the</HI> Board <HI>ordered a &s;econd Trial upon (double the Number)</HI> 72 Scuppers; <HI>when he took to his a&s;&s;i&s;tance one Mr.</HI> Whitehall, <HI>another</HI> Ma&s;ter-Plumber, <HI>who made part thereof; and it cannot be imagined but the&s;e</HI> Plumbers <HI>now u&s;ed all their Skill and Care; notwith&s;tanding which, the weight of their whole</HI> 72 <HI>was</HI> 25 <HI>hundred</HI> 1 <HI>quarter</HI> 12 <HI>pound; whereas the</HI> 72 Mill'd-Lead <HI>Scuppers weighed but</HI> 16 <HI>hundred</HI> 3 <HI>quarters</HI> 10 <HI>pound; about the &s;ame proportion with the former; which at</HI> 26 <ABBR>s</ABBR> <HI>per hundred</HI> (<HI>the</HI> Ca&s;t-Lead <HI>Scuppers being then</HI> 22 <ABBR>s</ABBR>) <HI>was above</HI> 27 per Cent. <HI>cheaper to the King. This appears more at large in a</HI> Memorial <HI>pre&s;ented to the</HI> Navy-Board <HI>in</HI> May 1690. <HI>and Printed</HI> page 115. <HI>in a &s;mall Book lately publi&s;hed, treating (among&s;t other new Inventions and Improvements) of the</HI> Mill'd-Lead <HI>for</HI> Sheathing Ships, <HI>&amp;c. and its Excellency in preference to</HI> Ca&s;t-Lead <HI>for all other purpo&s;es what|&s;oever, and the</HI> Plumbers <HI>&s;ugge&s;tions, decrying the &s;ame, therein proved, to be idle, &s;candalous, and fal&s;e, as well as the Shipwrights.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Divers other</HI> Trials <HI>of other kinds were afterwards made by direction of the pre|&s;ent</HI> Navy-Board, <HI>with which they being farther &s;atisfied, contracted for the</HI> Mill'd-Lead <HI>in general, for all Services of Their Majesties Yards; declaring in their In|&s;tructions to the Officers, That they had (among&s;t other Faults) found upon &s;everal</HI> Trials <HI>made, that the</HI> Ca&s;t-Lead <HI>was &s;o</HI> unequal <HI>and</HI> uncertain, <HI>they could not have what they demanded, nor depend thereon for Their Majesty's Service, as they could do upon the</HI> Mill'd-Lead; <HI>and therefore ordered them to demand that only for the future, laying their old</HI> Plumbers, <HI>their</HI> Lead, <HI>and</HI> Solder <HI>totally a&s;ide.</HI></P>
<P>From the Second <HI>Axiom,</HI> and only tho&s;e two <HI>Trials</HI> above-mentioned, it plainly appears that the <HI>Plumbers</HI> (let them or their Friends pretend what they will) can|not Ca&s;t within &frac13; <HI>equal</HI> to the Size given through the <HI>whole Sheet:</HI> Wherefore (it having been proved above, that <HI>Mill'd-Lead</HI> is for that rea&s;on at lea&s;t &frac13; better, and will in u&s;e go &frac13; farther) what&s;oever the Price of <HI>Mill'd-Lead</HI> be le&s;s than &frac13; more than <HI>Ca&s;t-Lead,</HI> it mu&s;t be granted that <HI>Mill'd-Lead</HI> is &s;o much the <HI>cheaper.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Mill'd-Lead</HI> for Co|verings Cheaper.</NOTE> Now the Price of <HI>Mill'd-Lead,</HI> at the Rates above-&s;uppo&s;ed, being but about &frac15; more, the &s;ame is above 20 <HI>per Cent. cheaper,</HI> as well as better than <HI>Ca&s;t-Lead,</HI> which was to be demon&s;trated.</P>
<P>For 3 <HI>C.</HI> of <HI>Ca&s;t-Lead</HI> at 13 <ABBR>s</ABBR> is 39 <ABBR>s</ABBR> and 2 <HI>C.</HI> of <HI>Mill'd-Lead</HI> at 16 <ABBR>s</ABBR> is but 32 <ABBR>s</ABBR> which being 7 <ABBR>s</ABBR> le&s;s, it is almo&s;t 22 <HI>per Cent.</HI> cheaper.</P>
<P>32 &mdash; 7 &proportion; 100&mdash;21 87 &ratio; Or, 21 <ABBR>l</ABBR> 17 <ABBR>s</ABBR> 6 <ABBR>d</ABBR></P>
<P><HI>But if &s;ome are unwilling to grant that</HI> Mill'd-Lead <HI>is better, and will go farther than</HI> Ca&s;t-Lead, <HI>in &s;o great a Degree as</HI> &frac13;, <HI>here's Latitude enough, let them allow half as much, and take</HI> &frac16; <HI>or any Degree under</HI> &frac18; <HI>(the</HI> Plumbers <HI>u&s;ual Price be|ing</HI> 14 <ABBR>s</ABBR> <HI>a hundred;) within which Limit, or Proportion of</HI> Inequality, <HI>&s;ure they will be &s;atisfied that</HI> Mill'd Lead <HI>is enough better and cheaper (be&s;ides the benefit of a more beautiful and lighter Covering) to recommend it to their &V;&s;e, it being one con&s;iderable advantage al&s;o, that they are &s;ure they &s;hall have the</HI> Mill'd-Lead <HI>equal &s;mooth and &s;ound, and of what</HI> thickne&s;s <HI>they demand; whereas the</HI> Plumber <HI>can ca&s;t but by gue&s;s, and that liable to concealed Blow-holes, and Sand-holes, as the</HI> Plumbers <HI>call them, and where they happen, mu&s;t al&s;o ha&s;ten the decay; which holes the</HI> Mill <HI>opens, and enlarges &s;o, that it di&s;covers all the defects of Ca&s;ting, but hides none; tho 'tis fal&s;ely pretended it clo&s;es tho&s;e holes which the Sun opens again: and if the</HI> Plumber <HI>Casts &s;o, as to bring the Charge le&s;s, or equal to the Price of the</HI> Mill'd-Lead, <HI>the Cu&s;tomer (if he carefully examines it) will find it to be &s;o much</HI> thinner <HI>than the</HI> Mill'd-Lead <HI>in &s;ome places, as well as</HI> thicker <HI>in others, as to render that Covering at lea&s;t</HI> 20 per Cent. <HI>wor&s;e; as is above demon&s;trated.</HI></P>
<P><HI>As to the</HI> Plumber<HI>'s pretence, That their Covering being heavier, it will yield more Money again when both come to be &s;tripp'd: It is not worth the an&s;wering, when it &s;hall be con&s;idered, that Mr.</HI> Hale <HI>offers in his Adverti&s;ement (Publi&s;hed by it &s;elf, and Printed al&s;o in the Book above-mentioned,</HI> p. 93. <HI>to keep any</HI> Mill'd-Lead <HI>Co|vering, of</HI> 100 <ABBR>l</ABBR> <HI>Value, that he lays but of</HI> 7 <HI>pound to the Foot in good repair, for</HI> 41 <HI>Years (to name a Term certain and &s;ufficient, tho it mu&s;t probably last much longer) for</HI> 5 <ABBR>s</ABBR> <HI>a Year: And that the different value of the Old</HI> Lead, <HI>after</HI> 41 <HI>Years (if the</HI> Ca&s;t-Lead <HI>&s;hould be &s;uppo&s;ed to lye &s;o long) to be paid in ready Money is not worth
<PB N="3" REF="2" MS="y">&s;peaking of, if no regard were had to the damage a Hou&s;e may &s;u&s;tain by the leaking of a</HI> Ca&s;t-Lead <HI>Covering, and charge of patching it with</HI> Solder <HI>in the mean time.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Now as to the <HI>Mill'd-Lead</HI> Sheathing.</HEAD>
<P>THE <HI>Antelope,</HI> a Merchant-man of about 600 Tun, Sheathed with <HI>Mill'd-Lead,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Mill'd-Lead</HI> Sheath|ing Better.</NOTE> having been imployed in His Maje&s;ty's Service this la&s;t Summer, had her Sheathing viewed at her return into the Dock by Mr. <HI>Shepheard,</HI> and other Merchants her Owners, who declared them&s;elves very well &s;atisfied therewith; the &s;ame lying on very well, and firm, as at fir&s;t doing, &s;aving two or three &s;mall Places, where the Anchor-fluke had torn it: To prevent which, for the future, it has been thought fit to &s;heath over the Lead with Boards in the Wake of the Anchor and a-long about the Waters-edge, that Boats, or other Ve&s;&s;els coming on Board, or lying by her &s;ides, may do the Lead-&s;heathing no damage, altho' the Shipwright has carried his Wood-&s;heathing lower than was nece&s;&s;ary for that purpo&s;e (for Rea|&s;ons be&s;t known to him&s;elf) contrary to the Owners Order. There was al&s;o a place rubb'd off about two hands breadth on one &s;ide of the Keele, &s;uppo&s;ed to be done by an Anchor-&s;tock, &s;he coming &s;o often to an Anchor in this Service, that the &s;heathing could not be liable to &s;uffer &s;o much damage perhaps in a whole <HI>Ea&s;t-India</HI> Voyage, as the Commander hath certified. And for her * <HI>Rudder-Irons,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The main rea&s;on of the different dura|tion and very &s;hort la&s;ting of &s;ome <HI>Rud|der-Irons</HI> over others mu&s;t be the &s;light working, and purging 'em from their more gro&s;s and earthy Parts with Fire and Hammer; for the Smith being paid by weight, will find tem|ptation to work 'em as &s;light as he can, &s;eeing that the more labour and charge he's at, the le&s;s mo|ney he &s;hall receive for his Work.</NOTE> which were new put on with her &s;heathing about 8 months before, &s;ome Ship|wrights, and their Friends, would have per&s;waded them that they were eaten &s;o very much that it was dangerous to &s;end her to Sea again without &s;hifting them, and that the Lead-Sheathing was the cau&s;e thereof; giving for Rea&s;ons, that the Water pa&s;&s;ing by the &s;ides of the Ship, it was &s;o tinged by the venomous qua|lity of the Lead-Sheathing, that making a kind of eddy or or dead Water at the <HI>Rudder,</HI> it did there eat and corrode the Irons in this extraordinary manner they talk of; to which, Mr. <HI>Hale</HI> being pre&s;ent, was de&s;ired to give his An&s;wer, but he told them, He thought it de&s;erved none, till they had given a better Rea&s;on then he had done already (namely the great variety and difference in the compo&s;ition and working the <HI>Rudder-Irons</HI>) for their uncon&s;tant and different du|ration, always known to have been before Lead-Sheathing was thought on, has been &s;ince, and ever will be upon all Ships &s;heathed either way, or not &s;heathed at all; and that their la&s;ting has been as &s;hort and uncon&s;tant upon tho&s;e others, as the&s;e &s;heathed with Lead, as he can prove if nece&s;&s;ary, which effects ought to have been on all, as equal and con&s;tant as their cau&s;es are, if the &s;heathing either way were concerned therein: Whereupon the Shipwrights Rea&s;ons again&s;t the Lead-&s;heath|ing, and for &s;hifting the <HI>Rudder-Irons</HI> (which if they could have obtained upon this Ship, how cau&s;le&s;s &s;oever, would have much countenanced their Clamour) ap|pearing very weak and groundle&s;s, Mr. <HI>Shepheard,</HI> with his Partners, in the pre|&s;ence of divers other Merchants, declar'd, That if ever he &s;heathed another Ship it &s;hould be with <HI>Mill'd-Lead,</HI> (this being the third they had applied this &s;heathing to within this Twelve-month) and that this Ship (which was de&s;igned for a long Voyage) &s;hould go to Sea again with the &s;ame <HI>Rudder-Irons</HI> without any amend|ment. Since which (notwith&s;tanding all the clamour and noi&s;e the Shipwrights make about this &s;heathing's rubbing off, and eating the <HI>Rudder-Irons</HI>) one Mr. <HI>Haines</HI> Merchant hath lately &s;heathed another Ship with it, called the <HI>Fortune,</HI> bound for <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">uiney.</HI> Thus much, with what is proved more at large in the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">In that Book it ap|pears that all Obje|ctions as to rubbing off by Cables lying on ground, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> upon <HI>5</HI> years Experience and about half a|&s;oore Ships &s;heathed, were removed to the Navy-Boards &s;atis|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">action, who then contracted for the Lead-&s;heathing; and, after that, this clamour about the <HI>Rudder-Irons</HI> (never heard of before) was &s;tarted when they found the other would not do.</NOTE> Book above-men|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">oned, may &s;ufficiently &s;atisfie the unprejudiced as to the <HI>Rudder-Irons;</HI> and the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">heathing, being Metal which the Worm cannot enter, is a full Demon&s;tration that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">is <HI>Mill'd-Lead</HI> is a better &s;heathing again&s;t the Worm (the fir&s;t and only thing in|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ended by &s;heathing) than the Wood &s;heathing can be.</P>
<P>Now as to its cheapne&s;s,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mill'd-Lead <HI>Sheath|ing above</HI> Cent. per Cent. <HI>Cheaper.</HI></NOTE> &s;uppo&s;e an ordinary Wood &s;heathing co&s;t 10 <ABBR>d</ABBR> a foot &s;quare, and that two &s;uch &s;heathings be allowed to la&s;t 7 years with Graving once or twice a year; and that for a Ship of about 600 Tun (which contains about 5400 foot of &s;heathing) but 40 <ABBR>l</ABBR> a year be allowed for her Graving, this, in 7 years time, with the fir&s;t charge of tho&s;e two &s;heathings, would amount to 730 <ABBR>l</ABBR></P>
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<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Note.</HI> Nothing is re|quired under or over this Sheathing, the Plank being brimm'd and the Seams <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> caulk'd, and &s;ome long Bri&s;tle-bru&s;hes on Board, to clean it once in two or three months, or as occa|&s;ion offers, which yet fouls not &s;o much as a Wood-&s;heathing does.</NOTE>Suppo&s;e al&s;o that a <HI>Mill'd-Lead</HI> &s;heathing would co&s;t 15 <ABBR>d</ABBR> a foot, and that one &s;uch &s;heathing be continued on but for the &s;ame term of 7 years, which (if the Ships Seams or Plank do not require its Stripping for other repairs) may la&s;t for any de|fect in the Sheathing it &s;elf twice as long, or longer, (as Experience has &s;ufficiently &s;hewn) with &s;ome &s;mall repairs for accidental rubs, which, with a little quantity of the Lead and Nails re&s;erved on Board, any one may mend as opportunity offers. This 5400 Foot would co&s;t the Owner, with allowance of &frac14; only part for the old &s;heathing at &s;tripping, but 253 <ABBR>l</ABBR> 2 <ABBR>s</ABBR> 6 <ABBR>d</ABBR> which would be 476 <ABBR>l</ABBR> 17 <ABBR>s</ABBR> 6 <ABBR>d</ABBR> &s;aved in his Pocket out of his 730 <ABBR>l</ABBR> that the Wood &s;heathing mu&s;t have co&s;t him in the&s;e 7 years time, if the Graving upon &s;uch a Ship had &s;tood him in no more than 40 <ABBR>l</ABBR> a year, as is above &s;uppo&s;ed. Nay, if one &s;uch Wood-&s;heathing would la&s;t the whole 7 Years, &s;up|po&s;e but 45 <ABBR>l</ABBR> a-year (which may be computed at much more) for the Graving, and the Lead-&s;heathing will be &s;till above <HI>Cent.</HI> per <HI>Cent.</HI> cheaper, which was to be demon&s;trated, there remaining 34 <ABBR>l</ABBR> to &s;pare, which may probably be more than the Lead-&s;heathing will require, to repair accidental rubbs all the time.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides this, there are many other Advantages; for this Sheathing &s;tiffens a Ship &s;o, that &s;he will bear more Sail, and is an undeniable &s;ecurity again&s;t the Worm, without any hindrance to Sailing, which the great thickne&s;s and roughne&s;s of a Wood Sheathing mu&s;t ob&s;truct.</P>
<P>And further, That Sheathing it &s;elf is more de&s;tructive to the Plank, it being well known, that when one Plank or Board is doubled, or clapp'd clo&s;e, lying hot upon another, the undermo&s;t, in &s;ome time, will be doted, which in a Wood Sheathing mu&s;t rot the Oakam al&s;o the &s;ooner, whereas a Lead Sheathing pre&s;erves the Plank cool and &s;ound, and the Oakam, perhaps, twice as long.</P>
<P>&rindx; <HI>There is, be&s;ides the con&s;tant Imployment of this</HI> Mill'd-Lead <HI>about Hou&s;es, a Church built in</HI> Well-Clo&s;e, <HI>called the</HI> Danes Church, <HI>lately covered with it, notwith&s;tanding the</HI> Plumbers <HI>are as indu&s;trious (it being their Intere&s;t al&s;o) to rai&s;e Stories, and make as great a noi&s;e again&s;t this Lead, and as &s;en&s;ele&s;s, as the Shipwrights</HI> do.</P>
<P>The <HI>Book</HI> above-mentioned may be had at the <HI>Book&s;ellers</HI> following, <HI>viz.</HI> At Mr. <HI>Hen&s;man</HI>'s Shop in <HI>Westmin&s;ter-Hall,</HI> Mr. <HI>Dring</HI> at the <HI>Harrow</HI> and <HI>Crown</HI> next <HI>Cliffords-Inn</HI> in <HI>Fleet&s;treet;</HI> The <HI>Harp</HI> in St. <HI>Paul</HI>'s Church-yard; The <HI>Leg</HI> and <HI>Star</HI> over again&s;t the <HI>Royal Exchange;</HI> And the <HI>Mill'd-Lead</HI> it &s;elf of any thickne&s;s, from a Pound in a Foot, to 20 or more, for Lining of <HI>Casks</HI> or <HI>Boxes, Brewers Backs, Fi&s;hmongers, Di&s;tillers</HI> and <HI>Dairy Ve&s;&s;els, Ci&s;terns, Gutters, Pipes, Crowning</HI> of <HI>Vaults</HI> to prevent <HI>Leaking,</HI> and for <HI>Covering</HI> of <HI>Signs</HI> to Paint on, as the <HI>Mill'd-Lead</HI> Sign is, and for Coffins, or any purpo&s;e what&s;oever, where <HI>Sheet Lead</HI> may be u&s;ed as well as <HI>Covering Hou&s;es,</HI> and many other things that <HI>Cast-Lead</HI> cannot be applied to. This <HI>Lead</HI> is of the u&s;ual breadth of 3&frac12; Foot, and may be had above twice as long as any <HI>Plumber</HI> pretends to Ca&s;t, if need require to &s;ave drips, and comply with the length of <HI>Coverings.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The&s;e Rates are not rai&s;ed, altho' now at the reprinting of this Demon&s;tration the Price of <HI>Pig-Lead</HI> is at lea&s;t <HI>30</HI><ABBR>s</ABBR> a Fod|dar dearer than when the&s;e Rates were &s;et.</NOTE> The pre&s;ent Rates being for 6 <ABBR>l</ABBR> <HI>per</HI> Foot, and all thicker at 16 <ABBR>s</ABBR> a hundred; and for each Pound in a Foot &s;quare thinner 12 <ABBR>d</ABBR> a hundred more, at the <HI>Mill,</HI> or <HI>Water Carriage</HI> paid to any place upon the River about <HI>London,</HI> if the Quantity be con&s;iderable, but for &s;mall quantities under a Tun<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Cu&s;tomer pays Boat Hire, or in lieu of Carriage 6 <ABBR>d</ABBR> a hundred more at the <HI>Shop,</HI> and for odd Pounds under a Quarter 2 <ABBR>d</ABBR> and 2 <ABBR>d</ABBR> <HI>half penny</HI> the thinner &s;ort, and <HI>Solder</HI> al&s;o at 6 <ABBR>d</ABBR> a Pound, which the <HI>Plumbers</HI> by Combination have hitherto kept up at 9 <ABBR>d</ABBR></P>
<P>At the <HI>Lead-Mill</HI> at <HI>Deptford,</HI> or at the <HI>Mill'd-Lead</HI> Sign in <HI>Aurange-street</HI> by <HI>Red-Lion-Square,</HI> where Mr. <HI>Hale</HI> now lives, who can furni&s;h the Cu&s;tomers with able <HI>Plumbers</HI> to work his <HI>Lead</HI> as there is occa&s;ion.</P>
<P><HI>Merchants that tran&s;port</HI> Sheet-Lead <HI>abroad, will doubtle&s;s find a better Market for this than the other; and if they, or any el&s;e, having occa&s;ion for a quantity, &s;hall think fit to &s;end Piggs, or old Lead, into the Mill, they may, upon di&s;|cour&s;e with Mr.</HI> Hale, <HI>&s;ave &s;omething farther con&s;iderable herein al&s;o.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>This Printed Sheet may be had at Mr.</HI> Hale<HI>'s Hou&s;e, the</HI> Lead-Mill, <HI>or at any the Book&s;ellers Shops above-named,</HI> Gratis.</P>
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<P>LONDON: <HI>Printed</HI> November 20. 1695.</P>
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