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HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   royal blazon or coat of arms  
By the Lord Lieutenant and Council.  
ORMONDE.  
WE the Lord Lieutenant and Council considering the Duty incumbent on Us to give a right Representation of His Majesty's great Care of and Indulgence to His people, and to make the Execution of the Laws as easy and safe to His Subjects, as the exigency of the Times and necessity of Affairs may possibly admit: And taking notice that many of His good Subjects who attend the confirmation of their Estates in this Kingdom, graciously intended them by His Majesty, according to the Act for the better Execution of His Majesty's Gracious Declaration, etc. may by reason of the great scarcity of Coin, be in present disabled, and through the expectation of a Return of a Commission for valuing the Estates of Adventurers, Soldiers and others, that are by the said Act to pay half a year or a years Rend to His Majesty according to the value of the said Estates in the Year One thousand six hundred Fifty nine, may have unwarily taken up Hopes that upon the application of the House of Commons to this Board, the time of payment would be enlarged, which His Majesties pressing occasions would not then permit, and that upon some or all of these Grounds, many persons may not only have neglected to provide moneys, but also may lie under the trouble of misapprehensions that Advantage will be taken by His Majesty for their failers in payment by the Fifteenth of this month of December: Upon deliberate consideration hereof, and of what hath further occurred unto Us, upon this occasion though the said moneys have not been paid in proportionably to what was requisite and reasonably by Us expected, so that the wilful and total Failers deserved no enlargement of Time, yet many having done their part with great Duty and Readiness, so that the present exigency of His Majesty's Affairs hath been in some degree supplied thereby, & many as We understand being upon the way with their money: We therefore to manifest to the whole Kingdom that His Majesty takes more satisfaction in the Happiness & Contentment of His people, than in any Advantage to Himself, have thought fit (according to the power entrusted with Us by an Act of Parliament, Entitled, An Act for the Enlargement of the Periods of Time limited in an Act for the better Execution of His Majesty's Gracious Declaration for the Settlement of His Kingdom of IRELAND, etc.) and do by this Our Act of Council enlarge the time for the payment of the first half years value payable out of the Estates of Adventurers, Soldiers and others, unto His Majesty, unto the Third day of February next ensuing the date hereof, before or on which day all persons concerned are hereby required to make the said several payments due from them by the said Act, according to the truest estimate they can make of their Lands, as the same yielded in the year One thousand Six hundred Fifty nine; and whensoever the Commissions that have issued, or shall issue for the valuing of the said Lands as aforesaid, shall be returned, in case any person shall have paid more than by the return of such Commissions shall appear to have been due from him, an Allowance shall be made to him of such Overplus, upon return of the said Commissions. And this readiness of Ours to give full satisfaction in this particular, will We hope quicken all persons concerned in Subsidies, Quitrents and other payments to his Majesty, to answer the same duly at the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer, that His Majesty's Occasions being supplied by His own Dues, the people may with more assurance enjoy the Tranquillity, Happiness and Protection of His Government, the Contentment whereof is the chief advantage His Majesty draws at present from this Kingdom.  
Given at His Majesty's Castle of Dublin, the Thirteenth day of December, 1662. GOD Save the KING. 

Jo. Armachanus,  
Mau. Eustace Canc.  
Ja. Dublin,  
Ossory,  
Barrymore,  
Drogheda,  
Mount-Alexander,  
Anglesey,  
Shannon,  
Massereene,  
Hen. Midensis,  
Mich. Cork,  
Fran. Aungier,  
Tho. Pigot,  
Jo. Bysse,  
J. Temple,  
Paul Davys,  
Fra. Hamilton,  
Robert Forth,  
Ja. Ware,  
Rob. Meredith,  
Theo. Jones.     

DUBLIN, Printed by JOHN CROOK, Printer to the KING'S most Excellent MAJESTY, and are to be sold by Samuel Dancer Bookseller, in Castle-street, 1662.