According to your lordship's reference of the 12th of June last, I have considered the Patent of Clement Dawbeney, gentleman, for slitting of iron bars into rods. And I have had before me the patentee that now is, and some of the nailers and blacksmiths that complained against the same, whereupon it pleased your lordships to call in the said patent. Bur upon examination of the business I find the complaint to be utterly unjust, and was first stirred up by one Burrell, master carpenter to the East India Company: who hath already himself begun to set up the like engine in Ireland, and therefore endeavoured to overthrow the said Patent, the better to vent his own iron to his further benefit and advantage; whereas the nailers and blacksmiths themselves do all affirm that they are now supplied by the patentee with as much good and serviceable iron or rather better than heretofore they have been, and the said patent hath been of much use to the kingdom in general, and likewise very beneficial to themselves in their trades: and therefore your lordships may be pleased to suffer him quietly to enjoy it without any further interruption; and to this did Burrell himself and the opposers willingly condescend: which nevertheless I submit to the wisdom of this most honourable board.