The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clergy_Act_1640" id="mwTA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Clergy Act 1640">Clergy Act</a> becomes law, excluding <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop" id="mwTQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Bishop">bishops</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_England" id="mwTg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Church of England">Church of England</a> from serving in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords" id="mwTw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a>.<sup about="#mwt53" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"}}' id="cite_ref-8" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_13#cite_note-8" id="mwUA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 8;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwUQ">[8]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"><cite about="#mwt50" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFManganiello2004">Manganiello, Stephen (2004). <i id="mwBws">The Concise Encyclopedia of the Revolutions and Wars of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1639-1660</i>. Scarecrow Press. p.<span id="mwBww" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>60. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBw0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBw4" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0810851009" id="mwBw8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0810851009"><bdi id="mwBxA">978-0810851009</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt50" class="Z3988" id="mwBxE" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Concise+Encyclopedia+of+the+Revolutions+and+Wars+of+England%2C+Scotland%2C+and+Ireland%2C+1639-1660&amp;rft.pages=60&amp;rft.pub=Scarecrow+Press&amp;rft.date=2004&amp;rft.isbn=978-0810851009&amp;rft.aulast=Manganiello&amp;rft.aufirst=Stephen&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFebruary+13"></span></span>