WE the Lord Lieutenant and Council considering the Duty incumbent on Vs to give a right Representation of His Majesties great Care of and Indulgence to His people, and to make the Execution of the Laws as easie and safe to His Subjects, as the Exigencie 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 Maje­sties Gracious Declaration, &c. may by reason of the great scarcity of Coyn, be in present disabled, and through the expectation of a Re­turn of a Commission for valuing the Estates of Adventurers, Soul­diers and others, that are by the said Act to pay half a year or a years Rent 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 inlarged, which His Majesties pres­sing occasions would not then permit, and that upon some or all of these Grounds, many persons may not onely have neglected to provide moneys, but also may lie under the trouble of misappre­hensions that Advantage will be taken by His Majestie for their failers in payment by the Fif­teenth of this month of December: Vpon deliberate consideration hereof, and of what hath fur­ther occurred unto Vs, upon this occasion though the said moneys have not been paid in proportio­nably to what was requisite and reasonably by Vs expected, so that the wilful and total Failers deserved no inlargement of Time, yet many having done their part with great Duty and Readi­ness, so that the present exigencie of His Majesties Affairs hath been in some degree supplied there­by, & many as We understand being upon the way with their mony: We therefore to manifest to the whole Kingdom that His Maiesty takes more satisfaction in the Happiness & Contentment of His people, than in any Advantage to Himself, have thought fit (according to the power intrusted with Vs by an Act of Parliament, Intituled, An Act for the Inlargement of the Periods of Time limited in an Act for the better Execution of His Majesties Gracious Declaration for the Settlement of His Kingdom of IRELAND, &c.) and do by this Our Act of Council inlarge the time for the payment of the first half years value payable out of the Estates of Adventurers, Souldiers 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 yeilded 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, Quit-Rents and other payments to his Majesty, to answer the same duely at the Receipt of His Majesties Exchequer, that His Majesties 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 Majestie draws at present from this Kingdom.