The
humble
Remonstrance
of
the
Farmers
and
Adventurers
in
the
Wine-farme
of
fourty
shillings
per
Tun
,
to
the
honourable
House
of
Commons
assembled
in
Parliament
,
Anno
Dom.
1641.
Sheweth
,
THat
when
Alderman
Abell
propounded
to
the
retailing
Vintâ—Źers
what
Master
Richard
Kilvert
intimated
to
him
,
they
desired
him
the
said
Alderman
,
and
others
(
whom
they
made
a
Commitee
)
to
go
to
Counsell
to
be
advised
whether
the
businesse
might
legally
be
untertaken
.
That
the
said
Alderman
and
Committee
assured
the
Company
that
they
had
taken
as
good
counsell
as
gold
could
buy
,
and
that
the
present
Recorder
of
London
and
Mr.
Sergeant
Stone
(
deceased
)
were
of
opinion
that
Wines
being
a
forraigne
commodity
,
his
Majestie
might
impose
what
he
pleased
on
it
,
and
that
the
farme
of
that
Imposition
might
as
freely
be
taken
as
any
farme
in
England
.
That
this
hath
been
already
by
Mr.
Alderman
himselfe
declared
in
the
honourable
House
of
Commons
in
Parliament
,
and
can
still
be
fully
proved
if
the
least
doubt
be
made
of
it
.
That
the
said
advice
brought
by
the
Alderman
and
Committee
,
with
the
retayling
Vintners
feare
to
be
brought
into
the
Starchamber
on
the
illegall
decree
against
dressing
of
meat
in
their
houses
,
was
the
absolute
motive
that
made
the
retayling
Vintners
to
make
the
contract
with
his
Maiestie
,
and
the
Farmers
and
Adventurers
to
undertake
the
Farme
.
That
Mr.
William
Dickens
went
to
Mr.
Anthony
Low
Counseller
at
Law
,
to
advice
whether
he
might
come
in
to
be
a
Farmer
or
undertaker
,
he
advised
he
might
freely
doe
it
,
for
it
was
no
hazard
or
crime
to
be
a
Farmer
of
an
illegall
Imposition
before
set
on
;
thereupon
the
said
Dickens
came
in
as
great
an
Adventurer
as
any
one
Farmer
whatsoever
.
That
the
said
Farmers
and
Adventurers
(
except
Alderman
Abell
who
was
Treasurer
)
never
received
peny
of
the
fourty
shillings
per
Tun
,
and
by
the
accompt
they
are
indebted
at
least
8000.
pounds
which
they
are
sued
for
and
must
pay
out
of
their
own
purses
,
to
the
hazard
of
the
undoing
of
some
of
them
.
They
humbly
beseech
this
honourable
Assembly
seriously
to
weigh
the
premisses
,
and
to
commiserate
their
case
,
and
as
they
never
got
one
peny
profit
by
it
,
so
they
desire
to
surrender
all
up
and
to
accompt
from
the
beginning
,
and
that
they
may
of
have
out
of
the
Bonds
owing
by
the
retayling
Vintners
so
much
as
may
free
them
out
of
debt
,
and
thereby
preserve
themselves
wives
and
children
from
disgrace
and
ruine
.
FINIS
.