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Printed in NC, 7: 439.
To the R
May it please rp
It being rps
storehouses in Lisbon Genoa & Leghorn for supplying
Portugal Spain Italy & Turkey with Tin, as Mr Taylor
has signified to us, & for this end that we should send
it in her ties
shipt off into her ties
lay before your p
opportunities of Transports from hence to Portsmouth
it will be more expeditious & also cheaper to send it
from Cornwall to Portsmouth in the Tin-ships. And
therefore we humbly propose that the Commissioners
for the Tin affair in Cornwall may be ordered to run in deal Boxes to Portsmouthpinto barrs taking the blocks together as they come to
annually
hand without any cutting that the Pewterers here may
have no occasion of complaining that the Tin sen
to the Tower has been culled; And because Barrells
are found too weak for this service we humbly propose
that the said Commissioners be directed to put the barrs
of Tin into boxes made of deale boards of such a size
that each Box may hold three hundred weight of Tin,that they ship off the & packing up the barrs in deale
same in deal boxes it being found by experience that Barrells
are too weak for this service
boxes, it being found by experience that barrells are too weak
for this service.it being found by experience that barrels are too weak for this servicein
hither & of unlading the Tin here into
Transports will be saved, & the Transports will be freed from
the trouble of this carriage, & Portsmouth may be always
without any difficulty supplied with such a stock of Tin
All which is most humbly submitted to rps