On the Manufacture of Tin-plate. 375 
the several persons concerned in the affair 
thought fit to make some trial in making 
some small quantities of plates and tinning 
them, which was done; and all workmen 
that wrought upon them agreeing that the 
plates were much better than those which 
were made in Germany; upon which, pre- 
paration was making to set this beneficial 
thing at work ;—but, it being understood at 
London, A PATENT was trumpt up, and the 
patentee was countenanced by some persons 
of quality—and what, with the patent being 
in our way, and the richest of our partners 
being afraid to offend great men in power, 
who had their eye upon us, it caused thie 
thing: to cool, and the making thereof was 
neither proceeded in by us, nor possibly could 
be by him that had the patent ; because nei- 
ther he that hath the patent, nor those that 
have countenanced him, can make one plate 
fit for use.”’* 
This enterprising individual, who spent 
the greater part of his life in promoting 
schemes for the good of his ‘country, and 
who, in the opinion of Bishop Watson, ought 
to have had a statue erected to his memory,t 
* England’s Improvement, &c. page 149—152 Part IT. 
+ The following particulars which I have collected res- 
pecting Mr.Yarranton, will tend to justify the good Bishop 
