Clergy Act 1640
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The Clergy Act 1640 (16 Car. I, c.27) was an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of England passed in 1641 by the Long Parliament
It prevented those in holy orders from exercising any temporal jurisdiction or authority after the 15th February 1641; this extended to taking a seat in Parliament or membership of the Privy Council. Any acts carried out with such authority after that date by a memver of the clergy was to be considered void.[1]
The Act was later repealed by the Clergy Act 1661.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Text of the Act at British History Online
- ^ Chronological table of the statutes; HMSO, London. 1993.
