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<NAME>Colm MacCrossan</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch Z140010.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>An Adverti&s;ement, Relating to Lead-Sheathing in General, and particularly That upon the <HI>Worce&s;ter</HI> bound for <HI>Guinea,</HI> a Ship new|ly Sheathed, and now lying in Mr. <HI>Newman</HI>'s Dock in <HI>Lymehou&s;e-Hole,</HI> but goes out in two or three days time, 20 of <HI>November.</HI> 1699.</HEAD>
<P>THIS Ship is Sheathed with Lead from the Keel up as high as any Wood-&s;hea|thing goes, where, upon a bare View, any one that is unprejudiced mu&s;t be convinc'd of its Excellency and Goodne&s;s in Preferrence to that of Wood, with|out recour&s;e to Experience, which has abundantly ju&s;tified it in every parti|cular, <HI>viz.</HI> better Pre&s;ervation of the <HI>Plank, Seams, Ironwork, and benefit of Sailing, as well as certain Security from the Worm, upon <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> 30 <HI>Ships,</HI> again&s;t all the fal&s;e and ridiculous Stories its Enemies have formerly rai&s;ed again&s;t it, as Mr. <HI>Hale</HI> has often Proved, Publi&s;hed, and Challenged any one fairly to An&s;wer that can; but they wi&s;ely decline that, knowing it will not bear a Publick Te&s;t, but &s;till go on with their po&s;itive Averments, and private In&s;inuations with their Friends, to rai&s;e new Stories as the old ones are baffled, as they have lately done, That it did rot and decay the Okam in the Seams, which was never heard of before, for that in truth it pre&s;erves it longer, as he has proved from Rea&s;on and Expe|rience in the <HI>Antilopes Evidence,</HI> &amp;c. which &s;tory being new invented, to make it nece&s;&s;ary (if Owners will Sheath with Lead) to &s;trip the Sheathing every Voyage, that the charge thereof may make them weary of it: Mr. <HI>Hale</HI> (to put an end to the&s;e Tricks) was advi&s;ed to addre&s;s him&s;elf at a General Court to the <HI>Engli&s;h Ea&s;t India Company,</HI> as great Patrones of our Trade, and Improvements, which he did by a Propo&s;al of Lead-&s;heathing, as an Invention of great U&s;e and Benefit to the Publick, as well as tho&s;e that u&s;ed it, de&s;iring they would be plea&s;ed to take the &s;ame into their Con&s;ideration, and upon due Examination and Enquiry into the Merit and Goodne&s;s thereof, in preference to that of Wood hitherto u&s;ed, and of the Truth and Validity of the Objections made again&s;t it) if they &s;hould find the thing it &s;elf de&s;erved it, that they would be plea&s;ed to give it their Countenance and En|couragement accordingly.</P>
<P>This Propo&s;al they referred to the Con&s;ideration of their Court of Directors, 2 <HI>Feb.</HI> la&s;t, who having taken time enough fully to inform them&s;elves, and to con&s;ider thereof (not thinking it rea&s;onable to impo&s;e the Lead-&s;heathing upon any one) 21 <HI>Sept.</HI> la&s;t, were plea|&s;ed to make an Order, That it be left indifferently to all Owners of Ships to be taken into their Service, to Sheath them with Lead or Board, as they think fit; but that it he re|commended to them to prefer Lead Sheathing, and that the Companies Husband [having di&s;covered great prejudice again&s;t it] be enjoyned to be indifferent in the Matter, and to &s;hew their Satisfaction therein, and full Approbation thereof, for the encouragement of o|thers, the 18 of <HI>Octob.</HI> la&s;t, They ordered the <HI>May-Flower,</HI> which they had newly bought (be|ing the fir&s;t Ship they had of their own, and which they de&s;igned to remain long a Coa&s;ter in the Indies) to be Sheathed with Lead, and that the care be committed to Mr. <HI>Hale</HI> to have the Seams well Caulked; the Rudder Irons Sound and well Wrought, and all the Iron work parcelled him&s;elf, which their Husband was not a ware of: So that it is to be hoped its Enemies will now think them&s;elves obliged to acquie&s;s at la&s;t, after a determination of the Point by &s;uch Judges, that mu&s;t be &s;atisfied upon a Full and Impartial enquiry into the Truth, and Merit of the Matter before them, and that the Shipwrights will undertake for the well Caulking of the Seames, and due parcelling of the Ironwork (that they &s;hall at lea&s;t, la&s;t as long under a Lead, as under a Wood-&s;heathing) for the future, that they may be tru&s;ted therewith as formerly, which otherwi&s;e they cannot be, if they &s;hall have it in their Power to charge the ill effects of their own wilful or carele&s;s neglect of the well performing &s;o nece&s;&s;ary a Work for the Ships Health, upon the Lead&s;heathing as the cau&s;e thereof.</P>
<P>It is true indeed, that upon &s;earching the <HI>May-Flower,</HI> to fit her out for their Service they found her Bottom eaten with the Worm, and &s;o rotten that they were forced to lay her a &s;ide, and ordered their Husband to look out for another, who knowing &s;he was to be Sheathed with Lead, delayed the time, and at la&s;t pretending he could find none in the River that was &s;o fit for their Service, as a new Ship already Sheathed with Wood upon the Stocks, and her Voyage requiring di&s;patch, they bought this Ship. He props'd one Wood Sheathed-Ship to them before, but it &s;eems they did not like her, and he was re&s;olv'd they &s;hould have no other, wherein their Husband has &s;hewn his Cuning to &s;erve his Friends, what cau&s;e &s;oever his Ma&s;ters have to thank him for it.</P>
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<P>Mr. <HI>Hale</HI> lives at the <HI>Mill'd-Lead-&s;ign,</HI> in <HI>Orange-Street</HI> by <HI>Red-Lyon-Square,</HI> who undertakes Covering of Churches, Hou&s;es, and all Work wherein Sheet Lead is u&s;ed, as well as Sheathing Ships, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> having able Plumbers and Workmen, &s;ufficient to perform the &s;ame: And may be heard of al&s;o at <HI>John</HI>'s in <HI>Burchen|lane,</HI> or <HI>Bat&s;on</HI>'s Coffee-hou&s;es.</P>
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