Concerning the prices of wine &c. Die Mercurii, Maii 26, 1641. England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A34205 of text R43115 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C5697). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A34205 Wing C5697 ESTC R43115 26832652 ocm 26832652 109818 2240856317

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A34205) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 109818) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1714:9) Concerning the prices of wine &c. Die Mercurii, Maii 26, 1641. England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. 1 sheet. s.n., [London : 1641] Place and date of publication supplied by Wing. A resolution, which includes a declaration of the illegality of the patent obtained by Alderman Abell and Richard Kilvert. Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library. eng Abell, William, fl. 1640. Kilvert, Richard, d. 1649. Wine industry -- England -- London. London (England) -- History -- 17th century. A34205 R43115 (Wing C5697). civilwar no Concerning the prices of wine &c. Die Mercurii, Maii 26, 1641. England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons 1641 1 301 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-07 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-08 Sampled and proofread 2008-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Concerning the Prices of Wine , &c. Die Mercurii , Maii 26. 1641.

UPon the whole matter of the Report ,

It was resolved upon the Question ,

1. That the Patent for the payment of 40. shill. per Tun on Wines by the Merchants , is illegall in the creation , and a grievance .

2. That the imposition of a penny on a quart on French Wines , and two pence on a quart on Spanish Wines , is a grievance .

3. That the Patent of the imposition of 40. shillings per Tun , is a grievance in the execution .

4. That Alderman Abel , and Master Richard Kilvert are the principall Projectors both in the creation and execution of this illegall imposition of 40. shill. per Tun.

That there shal be a Bill prepared , declaring the offences of Alderman Abel , and Richard Kilvert , to the end they may be made exemplary .

That a select Committee be named , to examine who were the Referrees , Advisers , Sharers , Complotters and Contractors , and those that have received any bribe or benefit by this Patent , and who drew the Patent .

That the Proclamation dated the 15. of July , in the 14th . yeare of the King , prohibiting the Wine-Coopers to buy and sell Wine , is illegall , and against the liberty of the Subject .

That the Decree made in the Starre-chamber in December 1633. prohibiting retailing Vintners to dresse meat in their own houses , to sell againe to guests , is illegall , and against the liberty of the Subject .