text:  It was represented to the king that by those means the price of wine had been reduced to 7200 rios a pipe or less until the expense of cultivation was more than the value of the produce; that those purchasers required one or two years' credit; that the price did not pay for the hoeing of the land which was consequently deserted; that all the principal families of one district had been reduced to poverty so much so as to be obliged to sell their knives and forks; that the poor people had not a drop of oil for their salad so that they were obliged even in Lent to season their vegetables with the fat of hogs