Univ. Coll., London.
_Ecclesia Anglicana_ (Vol. vii., p. 12.).--This has always been the
appellation of the Church of England, just as much before the Reformation
as after. I copy for G. R. M. one rather forcible sentence from the
articles of a provincial synod, holden A.D. 1257:
"Et super istis articulis prænotatis fecit Bonifacius, Cant. Arch.
suorum suffraganeorum sibi subditorum universorum, prælatorum pariter
et cleri procuratorum, convocationem isto anno apud Londonias semel et
secundo, propter gravamina et oppressiones, de die in diem per summum
pontificem et D. Henricum Regem _Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ_
irrogatas."--Wilkin's _Concilia Mag. Brit. et Hib._, vol. i. p. 726.
For other examples of the ante-reformational use of _Ecclesia Anglicana_, I
can give him so large a reference as to Wilkins' book, _passim_; to the
Writs for Parliament and Mandates for Convocation contained in the Appendix
to Wake's _State of the Church and Clergy_; and to the extracts from _The
Annals of Waverley_, and other old chronicles, quoted in Hody's _History of
English Councils and Convocations_.