A COPY OF THE BILL Against the xiij. Bishops, presented to to the Lords, by the Commons, Octob. 25. 1641.  
ENTITLED An Act for dissolving all persons in holy Orders to exercise temporal Jurisdiction and Authority.  
With the Names of the XIII. Bishops lately Impeached.  
Whereunto is added the substance of a Letter presented to Mr. PYM, containing very wicked and bloody Expressions.  
LONDON, Printed for JOHN THOMAS, 1641.   

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Reader behold and pity the decay  
Of this late great man, who the other day  
Lived great and gracious in his Prince's eyes,  
But being fallen all people him despise;  
Deplore his sad sat, pray that he may prove  
As once on Earth, so great in Heaven above.   

A Copy of the Bill against the Xiij. Bishops, presented to the Lords by the Commons, Octob. 25. 1641.  
Being entitled an Act for dissolving all persons in holy Orders to exercise any Temporal jurisdiction or Authority.  
WHereas Bishops and other persons in holy orders, ought not to be entangled with secular jurisdiction, the offices of the ministry being of such great importance that it will take up the whole man, And for that it is found by long experience that their Intermeddling with secular jurisdiction hath occasioned great mischief & scandals both to Church and state, his Majesty out of his Religious Care of the Church and the souls of his people is graciously pleased, that it may be enacted, and by the authority of these presents, Be it enacted that Arch-Bishops or Bishops or any other person, that now is or hereafter shall be in the holy orders; shall at any time after the tenth day of November in the Year of our Lord God, 1641. have any suffrage or vote or use, or execute any power or authority in the Parliament of this Realm.  
Nor shall be of the Privy Council of his Majesty, his heirs or successors, or justices of the Peace of Oyre or Terminor, or Goal delivery, or execute any temporal authority by virtue of any Commission, but shall be wholly disabled and be uncapable to have, receive, use, or execute any of the said Offices, places, powers, authorities, and things aforesaid, and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid; that all Acts from and after the said 10. day of November, which shall be done by any Archbishops, or Bishops, or other persons whatsoever in holy Order, and all and every suffrage or vote given or delivered by them, or any other thing done by them, or any of them, contrary to the purport or true meaning of this present Act, shall be utterly void to all intents, Constructions and purposes.   

The Namet of the xiij. Bishops lately Impeached.  

Walter Bishop of Winchester.  
Robert Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.  
Godfrey Bishop of Gloucester.  
joseph Bishop of Excester.  
john Bishop of Asaph,  
William Bishop of Bath and Welles.  
George Bishop of Hereford.  
Matthew Bishop of Ely.  
William Bishop of Bangor.  
Robert Bishop of Bristol.  
john Bishop of Rochester.  
john Bishop of Peterborough.  
Morgan Bishop of Landaffe.   
Together with William Archbishop of Canterbury, and others of the Clergy of that Province, at a Convocation or Synod for the same Province, begun at London, 1640. who contrived and made, and promulged, several Constitutions and Canons, Ecclesiastical, containing in them divers matters, contrary to the King's Prerogative, to the fundamental Laws and Statutes of the Realm, to the Rights of Parliament, to the propriety and liberty of the Subjects, and matters tending to Sedition, and of dangerous consequence.   

The Substance of a Letter presented to Mr. Pym, on the 26. of October, 1641. containing very bloody and wicked expressions.  
O Traitorous PYM, that betrayest thy King and Country, and subvertest the fundamental Laws of the Kingdom take this for thy reward, which if it doth not end thee, when God shall enable me to come abroad; without prejudice to honester men than thyself, my dagger shall dispatch.  
FINIS.