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Mr. Hale,
I Have thought upon the Paper you shew∣ed me, which you said the Plumbers pre∣sented to the Navy-Board, complaining of mighty defects in your Mill'd-Lead, and men∣tioning a great many places where they say they have been forced to strip it off, and new cover with their Cast-Lead, and amongst the rest my House at Tooting: I wonder much at
their Confidence and Folly, to say such things that may be so easily contradicted: I assure you my Covering at Tooting lyes very well, and I do not doubt but it will so continue; indeed I am very proud of it, and I do not think there's a finer and better Covering in England, at least not of Cast-Lead, for I have Sheets thereon about twice as long as I ever heard the Plumber pretended to Cast, being 34 Foot long, and I was very well sa∣tisfied after a great deal of Discourse with the Plumber before I began, that your Mill'd Lead was cheaper in the whole Work, and would prove much better, and being exactly equal (which theirs is far from) would last longer than theirs, and I see no cause yet to alter my Opinion. Upon your request to have something from me in Writing on this Occasion, I could say no less, and suppose this may suffice from
28 Aug. 1690.
SIR,
Your Humble Sevant, Robert Sanders.