Die Mercurij 14, Decemb. 1642.  
AN ORDINANCE, MADE BY THE LORDS AND COMMONS IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED, For the better and more speedy execution, of the late Ordinance of the 29. of November, 1642.  
WHEREAS according to an Ordinance and Declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, of the 29. of November last, the persons whose names are subscribed are appointed and since approved of, by both Houses of Parliament, to be Assessors and Collectors of It is now ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. And the said persons, are hereby required and authorized, upon the Receipt of this order, forthwith to proceed, effectually and diligently, to execute the said Ordinance, according to the tenor thereof, in every behalf, without omission, favour, dread, malice, or any other thing, to be attempted, by them, or any of them, to the contrary thereof: And for that end; It is further Ordained and Declared: That the said Assessors, shall hereby have authority to call before them, as well such persons, as they shall think fit to their assistance: As also, all or any such persons, as are to be assessed. And the said Assessors shall appoint the said Collectors, in their several Divisions and Precincts, for gathering the sums that shall be assessed; And give notice of the sum and sums of money, at which every person, in their divisions and precincts shall be particularly assessed. And WHEREAS it is expressed, in the said Ordinance, (So as the assessment exceed not the twentieth ●art of the estates of the persons to be assessed) It is hereby Declared, for prevention of all inequality in the said assessment: That if the said Assessors, or any four of them, proceeding in their assessment according to their Judgements, and best Information, shall assess any person, above the twentieth part of his estate; And that the person so assessed, doth find himself grieved, with the same assessing or Rating: That then the party so assessed, (paying one moiety of the sum he shall be assessed at, within six day's next after assessment, and notice thereof given, or left, at the dwelling house of the party so assessed) may, (during six days, after his having paid the said Moiety, as aforesaid) have liberty, and may address himself for remedy and relief, unto the persons nominated by the said Ordinance, to nominate the Assessors, or any four of them, and may tender his voluntary Oath, or Protestation, to such persons, that he is overrated, and of the true value of his estate (if he please) and after due examination, and perfect knowledge thereof had, and perceived; The said Persons authorized to nominate Assessors as aforesaid, or any four of them, shall hereby have power to Order such abatement of the said assessment, according as shall appear unto them just, and equal upon the same examination. And it is hereby further Ordained and Declared, that the person so assessed and sworn, shall within three day's next after the Order of abatement, in that behalf made, pay unto, or be repaid by the Treasurers who received the other moiety of such assessment, such sum or sums of money, as by the said Order of abatement shall be appointed: And in case the said person, so sworn and assessed, shall not pay within the said three days, next after Order of abatement made, the sum thereby ordered to be paid; That then the same sum, shall be recovered by distress, or otherwise, as is provided in the said Ordinance of the 29. of November last, (in case the sums assessed shall not be paid into the Guild-hall, London, according to the true meaning of the same) And if it be proved by witnesses, or by the parties own confession, or other lawful ways or means, within six months after any such Oath made, that the same person so rated, and sworn, was of any better or greater estate, in Lands, Goods, or other things above specified, at the time of the making the said Ordinance, than the said person so sworn, did declare upon his Oath. That then every person so offending, shall lose and forfeit, so much lawful money of England, as he the same person so sworn, was first assessed at, or taxed to pay, by virtue of the Ordinance aforesaid: To be recovered, by distress, or otherwise, as is provided, in the said Ordinance of the 29. of November last, (in case the sums of money to be assessed by virtue of the said Ordinance shall not be paid into the Guildhall London, according to the true meaning of the same) And it is hereby further Ordained and Declared, That the said Assessors and Collectors shall incur no damage by reason of their overvaluing the estate of any person assessed, or to be assessed, or recovering or receiving the same, by virtue of the Ordinance aforesaid, unless some corruption or indirect carriage therein, shall be proved in Parliament against them.   

Die Veneris, Decemb. 16. 1642.  
Ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament that this Ordinance be forthwith Printed and published.  
Jo. Browne Cler. Parliamentorum.   

London Printed for Robert Dunscomb. Decemb. 17. 1642.