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DNB

 * Article title: Abell, William
 * Author: Lee, Sidney
 * LEAD: ABELL, WILLIAM (fl. 1640), alderman of London, was elected alderman of Bread Street ward in 1636. He was a vintner by trade, and in 1637 became sheriff of London and master of the Vintners' Company.
 * Errata: Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.1
 * LEAD: ABELL, WILLIAM (fl. 1640), alderman of London, was elected alderman of Bread Street ward in 1636. He was a vintner by trade, and in 1637 became sheriff of London and master of the Vintners' Company.
 * Errata: Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.1

General

 * Gardiner's Hist. of England, viii. 286–7
 * Commons' Journal, vol. ii
 * Calendars of State Papers, 1638–41, 1652–3, 1655
 * Remembrancia, 14 n.
 * Rushworth's Collections, iv. 277–8
 * Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum—Political and Personal—vol. i., where full accounts of the broadsides relating to Abell may be found.

Works relating to Abell (broadsides)

 * Thomas Heywood, 18 Dec. 1640, "a tract dealing with ‘a priest, a judge, and a patentee,’"
 * An Exact Legendary, compendiously containing the whole life of Alderman Abel, the maine Proiector and Patentee for the raising of Wines. (1641)
 * The Copie of a Letter sent from the Roaring Boyes in Elizium, to two errant Knights of the Grape in Limbo, Alderman Abel and Mr. Kilvert (1641)
 * Time's Alteration (1641)
 * The Last Discourse betwixt Master Abel and Master Richard Kilvert (1641)
 * A True Discovery of the Proiectors of the Wine Proiect
 * A true Relation of the Proposing, Threatening, and Perswading of the Vintners to yeeld to the Imposition upon Wines