Bishops Exclusion Bill
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The Bishops Exclusion Bill was passed in the House of Common is March 1641, but was rejected in the House of Lords.
At the end of 1641 the London mob, probably with the encouragement John Pym or his supporters, prevented bishops taking their seats in the House of Lords. When the bishops complained to Charles I, he was sympathetic to their plight. In the polarised atmosphere of pre-civil war politics this encouraged a majority of both Houses to pass the Bishops Exclusion Act in February 1642 which banned bishops from the House of Lords.
According to John Rushworth (Historical Collections) the word Roundhead was first used on 27 December 1641 by a disbanded officer named David Hide, who during a riot is reported to have drawn his sword and said he would "cut the throat of those round-headed dogs that bawled against bishops."
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- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain. from the article ROUNDHEAD
- Bishops Exclusion Bill
