LONDON:

CERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS,

ST. JOHN'S SQUARE.

England's Sacred Synods.

A CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY

OF THE

CONVOCATIONS OF THE CLERGY,

FROM THE

EARLIEST RECORDS OF CHRISTIANITY IN BRITAIN

TO THE DATE OF THE PROMULGATION

OF THE PRESENT BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER:

INCLUDING A

LIST OF ALL COUNCILS,

ECCLESIASTICAL AS WELL AS CIVIL, HELD IN ENGLAND,

IN WHICH THE CLERGY HAVE BEEN CONCERNED.

BY

JAMES WAYLAND JOYCE, M.A.

LATE STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD,

RECTOR OF BURFORD (THIRD PORTION),

AND ONE OF THE PROCTORS FOR THE CLERGY OF THE DIOCESE OF HEREFORD.

̓Αρχαῖον γὰρ δή τι φαίνεται ἐόν.—HEROD. Eut. 104.

LONDON:

RIVINGTONS, WATERLOO PLACE.

1855.