The Bishops Resignation Act, 1869
WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the relief of archbishops and bishops who by reason of age or any mental or bodily infirmity may be permanently incapacitated from the due performance of their episcopal duties: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: