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.