A Trve relation of the proposing, threatning, and perswading the vintners to yeeld to the imposition upon wines declaring the dislike of the generality of retailers, and whatsoever they either did or suffered therein, was meerly by compulsion : and heereby is also truely set forth their great, and almost insupportable losse by this imposition : together with the extreame wrongs and injuries they have suffered in their arreare-money, in their meat-money, and by medium-wine.

2. Medium Wine.

Also they suffered very much by the great quantities of Medium wines enforced on them being both very bad and very deare, whereby they were not onely hindered in their trades, but also much damnified in their reputation, in that they were compelled to part with great summes of Mo∣ney for these Mediums, and were thereby disabled to keep day with Merchants of whom they had bought good wines for time, and that time expired. The insupportable wrongs and injuries thereby suffered (almost to the utter undoing of ma∣ney Retailers) hath beene sufficiently manifested (not onely by the imprisoning of many of them, but also) by the severall testimonies thereof made before the Committee.

The occasion of this Medium was that Invetterate malice and hatred that was in Alderman Abel against the Coopers, that, and that onely was both the begetting of the Medium,

and the very Originall occasion of the Coopers restraint.

Also the contriving of the Medium, was the Aldermans worke, as for the Retailers, they knew not what it ment when he proposed it; whereupon he tooke great paines, and spent much time in the explanation of it to them.

And himselfe, together with Mr. Griffith often pressed the consent thereunto very earnestly with many perswasions, tel∣ling the Retailers it would prove as small a matter as Flea∣biting, &c. whereby it appeares, that the Booke intituled, A true Discovery, is a discoverer of untruths, in pag. 19. and 21.