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<NAME>Emma Leeson Huber</NAME>
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<HEAD>The humble Remon&s;trance of the Farmers and
Adventurers in the VVine-farme of fourty &s;hillings per
Tun, to the honourable Hou&s;e of Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament,
Anno Dom. 1641.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Sheweth,</OPENER>
<P>_THat when Alderman <HI>Abell</HI> propounded to the retailing Vint<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ers what Ma&s;ter <HI>Richard
Kilvert</HI> intimated to him, they de&s;ired him the &s;aid Alderman, and others (whom
they made a Commitee) to go to Coun&s;ell to be advi&s;ed whether the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e might
legally be untertaken.</P>
<P>That the &s;aid Alderman and Committee a&s;&s;ured the Company that they had
taken as good coun&s;ell as gold could buy, and that the pre&s;ent Recorder of London and Mr. Sergeant
<HI>Stone</HI> (decea&s;ed) were of opinion that Wines being a forraigne commodity, his Maje&s;tie might im|po&s;e
what he plea&s;ed on it, and that the farme of that Impo&s;ition might as freely be taken as any farme in
England.</P>
<P>That this hath been already by Mr. Alderman him&s;elfe declared in the honourable Hou&s;e of Com|mons
in Parliament, and can &s;till be fully proved if the lea&s;t doubt be made of it.</P>
<P>That the &s;aid advice brought by the Alderman and Committee, with the retayling Vintners feare to
be brought into the Starchamber on the illegall decree again&s;t dre&s;sing of meat in their hou&s;es, was the
ab&s;olute motive that made the retayling Vintners to make the contract with his Maie&s;tie, and the Far|mers
and Adventurers to undertake the Farme.</P>
<P>That Mr. <HI>VVilliam Dickens</HI> went to Mr. <HI>Anthony Low</HI> Coun&s;eller at Law, to advice whether he might
come in to be a Farmer or undertaker, he advi&s;ed he might freely doe it, for it was no hazard or crime to
be a Farmer of an illegall Impo&s;ition before &s;et on; thereupon the &s;aid <HI>Dickens</HI> came in as great an Ad|venturer
as any one Farmer what&s;oever.</P>
<P>That the &s;aid Farmers and Adventurers (except Alderman <HI>Abell</HI> who was Trea&s;urer) never received
peny of the fourty &s;hillings <HI>per</HI> Tun, and by the accompt they are indebted at lea&s;t 8000. pounds which
they are &s;ued for and mu&s;t pay out of their own pur&s;es, to the hazard of the undoing of &s;ome of them.</P>
<P REND="indent">They humbly be&s;eech this honourable A&s;&s;embly &s;eriou&s;ly to weigh the premi&s;&s;es, and
to commi&s;erate their ca&s;e, and as they never got one peny profit by it, &s;o they de&s;ire
to &s;urrender all up and to accompt from the beginning, and that they may of have out
of the Bonds owing by the retayling Vintners &s;o much as may free them out of debt,
and thereby pre&s;erve them&s;elves wives and children from di&s;grace and ruine.</P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P>London printed, 1641.</P>
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