The Clergy Act 1640, also known as the Bishops Exclusion Act, or the Clerical Disabilities Act, was an Act of Parliament, effective 13 February 1642 that...

"repealed, annulled and made void to all intents and purposes" the Clergy Act 1640, which had prevented those in holy orders from exercising any temporal...

Gatehouse Prison adjoining Westminster Abbey due to his effort to have the Clergy Act 1640 annulled. Original text When love with unconfined wings         Hovers...

derision toward the end of 1641, when the debates in Parliament in the Clergy Act 1640 were causing riots at Westminster. The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh...

While he was imprisoned in the Gatehouse for petitioning to have the Clergy Act 1640 annulled, Richard Lovelace wrote "To Althea, from Prison", with its...

legislation opposed by the Crown; their ousting from Parliament by the Clergy Act 1640 was a major step on the road to war, since it meant Charles could no...

the House of Lords was removed during the Long Parliament under the Clergy Act 1640 (passed in 1642). As this legislation had passed both Houses and received...

were passed between 1641 and 1642. Taxation Act 1640 (16 Cha. 1. c. 2) Start of session Adventurers' Act 1640 (16 Cha. 1. c. 33) Start of session Wikisource...

legislation opposed by the Crown; their ousting from Parliament by the Clergy Act 1640 was a major step on the road to war, since it meant Charles could no...

Petition was a petition presented to the Long Parliament on 11 December 1640. The petition had been signed by 15,000 Londoners and was presented to the...

they often blocked Parliamentary legislation. Their removal by the Clergy Act 1640 was a major step along the road to war. Most Presbyterians were political...

13 Chas. 2. st. 1. Clergy Act 1640 (16 Cha. 1. c. 27) Abolition of High Commission Court Act 1640 (16 Cha. 1. c 11) Navigation Act 1660 (12 Cha. 2. c...

with other contemporary acts such as Submission of the Clergy Act 1533 and one year before the Act of Supremacy 1534. However Henry later used the law to...

The Benefit of Clergy Act 1496, formally referred to as the Act 12 Hen. 7 c. 7, was an Act of the Parliament of England, passed during the reign of Henry...

The Benefit of Clergy Act 1575 (18 Eliz. 1. c. 7), long title An Act to take away clergy from the offenders in rape and burglary, and an order for the...

The Benefit of Clergy Act 1402 (4 Hen. 4. c. 3) was an Act passed during the reign of Henry IV of England by the Parliament of England. It abolished compurgation...

The Clergy Marriage Act 1551 (5 & 6 Edw. 6. c. 12) was an Act of the Parliament of England. The whole Act, so far as unrepealed, was repealed by section...

of Canterbury and York are the synodical assemblies of the bishops and clergy of each of the two provinces which comprise the Church of England. Their...

Sunday Fairs Act 1448, the Clergy Act 1533, the Appointment of Bishops Act 1533, the Ecclesiastical Licences Act 1533, the Suffragan Bishops Act 1534, and...

The 1640s decade ran from January 1, 1640, to December 31, 1649. January 6 – The Siege of Salses ends almost six months after it had started on June 9...

English criminal law, particularly the benefit of clergy. It was repealed by the Criminal Law Act 1967. The act has sixteen parts. Parts I - V concerned the...

was abolished. The Act also eradicated pluralism in the clergy (the right to hold more than one parish) and forbade English clergy from attending religious...

The Clergy Marriage Act 1548 (2 & 3 Edw. 6. c. 21) was an Act of the Parliament of England. Part of the English Reformation, it abolished the prohibition...

Charles I ultimately led to the 1639–1651 Wars of the Three Kingdoms. The 1639–1640 Bishops' Wars confirmed the primacy of the kirk, and established a Covenanter...

The Submission of the Clergy Act 1533 (25 Hen. 8. c. 19) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. This Act was partly in force in Great Britain...

rebellion, and the Act had been signed into law by Charles I just before the start of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (see Adventurers' Act 1640). Many of Ireland's...

Atherton pushed for the enactment of "An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery" in 1634. In 1640 Atherton was accused of buggery with a man...

agreed to the same on behalf of the clergy of York province. That same year, Parliament passed the Pardon to Clergy Act 1531.[citation needed] By 1532, Cromwell...

taught, in the City of London, primarily by the clergy. But a papal bull in 1218 prohibited the clergy from practising in the secular courts (where the...

The legislation was also criticised by Anglican clergy. Certain employment is exempted from the Act, including: Priests, monks, nuns, rabbis, and ministers...