The humble Remonstrance of the Farmers and Adventurers in the wine-farm of forty shillings per Tun, to the honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament, Anno Dom. 1641.  
Showeth,  
THat when Alderman Abel propounded to the retailing vintners what Master Richard Kilvert intimated to him, they desired him the said Alderman, and others (whom they made a committee) to go to counsel to be advised whether the business might legally be untertaken.  
That the said Alderman and Committee assured the Company that they had taken as good counsel as gold could buy, and that the present Recorder of London and Mr. Sergeant Stone (deceased) were of opinion that Wines being a foreign commodity, his majesty might impose what he pleased on it, and that the farm of that Imposition might as freely be taken as any farm in England.  
That this hath been already by Mr. Alderman himself 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 retailing Vintners fear to be brought into the Starchamber on the illegal decree against dressing of meat in their houses, was the absolute motive that made the retailing Vintners to make the contract with his majesty, and the Farmers and Adventurers to undertake the farm.  
That Mr. William Dickens went to Mr. Anthony Low counsellor at Law, to advice whether he might come in to be a Farmer or undertaker, he advised he might freely do it, for it was no hazard or crime to be a Farmer of an illegal 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 Abel who was Treasurer) never received penny of the forty shillings per Tun, and by the account 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 premises, and to commiserate their case, and as they never got one penny profit by it, so they desire to surrender all up and to account from the beginning, and that they may of have out of the Bonds owing by the retailing Vintners so much as may free them out of debt, and thereby preserve themselves wives and children from disgrace and ruin.  
FINIS.   

London printed, 1641.