Proposal by a Mr Eyres of Southwark to melt down unserviceable brass guns from the Vigo booty and extract fine copper for the Mint

Mr Eyres a Refiner of Copper in Southward over against Ludgat Tower represents that there are many old brass Gunns in hands of the Office of Ordnance unfit for use several of which have been taken from other nations & are of a different form from those used in the Egnlish Fleet; that they will not sell for above 60li per Tunn; & that for every tenn Tunns thereof he will deliver into the Mint 7 Tunns of fine copper worth 100li per Tunn, Her Majesty being at the charge of weighing & shipping off those Gunns to be carried cross the river.