AN ORDINANCE Declaring that the proceed in Case of MURDER IN IRELAND, Shall be as formerly.   blazon of the Commonwealth 

Monday 20th March, 1653.  
ORdered by His Highness the Lord PROTECTOR and the Council, that this Ordinance be forthwith Printed and Published.  
HEN. SCOBEL, Clerk of the Council.   
LONDON, Printed, by William dugard, and Henry Hills, Printers to His Highness the Lord Protector. 1653.   

 blazon of the Commonwealth  
AN ORDINANCE Declaring that the proceed in Case of MURDER in IRELAND, shall be as formerly.  
WHereas by the Laws of Ireland, the proceed in Case of Murder, and against Murderers, hath been used to be as in Case of Treason and against Traitors; whereupon a doubt hath arisen, whether by the Ordinance, Entitled, An Ordinance, declaring that the offences therein mentioned, and none other, shall be adjudged high Treason, within the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Dominions thereunto belonging, the same be not taken away and repealed; For clearing whereof, be it Declared, Ordained, and established by His Highness the Lord PROTECTOR, by and with the advice and consent of his Council, that the offence, proceed, and punishment in case of Murder, and of Murderers in Ireland, and all Commanders, aiders, or abettors, in or unto any such fact, or person, shall remain, continue and be the same to all intents and purposes, as the same was or were before the making of the said Ordinance, and as if the said Ordinance had not been made, any thing therein contained, or any Law, or Statute to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.   

Monday 20th March, 1653.  
Ordered by his Highness the Lord PROTECTOR and the COUNCIL, that this Ordinance be forthwith printed and published.  
Hen. Scobell, Clerk of the Council.