The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
III.: Soit baillé aux Seigneurs, A ceste Bille les Seigneurs sont assentuz.
19th Century Samuel Rawson Gardiner (ed.) EnglishAn Act concerning Peers lately made and hereafter to be made.
Be it enacted, by the King’s Majesty and by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, that all honour and title of peerage conferred on any since the 20th day of May, 1642 (being the day that Edward Lord Lyttelton, then Lord-Keeper of the Great Seal, deserted the Parliament, and that the said Great Seal was surreptitiously conveyed away from the Parliament), be and is hereby made and declared null and void.
Be it further enacted, and it is hereby enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that no person that shall hereafter be made a Peer, or his heirs, shall sit or vote in the Parliament of England without consent of both Houses of Parliament.