since 1878 at intervals of ten years, to which the
bishops of the English Church and the churches in communion with it are
invited, and meet under the presidency of the archbishop of Canterbury.
The first of these conferences, which illustrate the dignity of the see
founded by St Augustine and now the head of a vast quasi-patriarchate,
was held under the presidency of Archbishop Longley in 1867 (see LAMBETH
CONFERENCES and ANGLICAN COMMUNION).

AUTHORITIES.--General Histories, Narrative: J. Collier,
_Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain_ (to 1685), ed. T. Lathbury
(9 vols., London, 1852); T. Fuller, _Church History_ (to 1648), ed. J.
S. Brewer (Oxford, 1845), valuable near the author's own time; C.
Dodd, _Church History of England_ (to 1625, by a Roman Catholic), ed.
M. A. Tierney (5 vols., London, 1839-1843); Dean W. F. Hook, Lives of
the _Archbishops of Canterbury_ (to 1663) (12 vols., London,
1860-1879); G. G. Perry, _Students' English Church History_ (to 1884)
(London, 1887), a carefully written book; _A History of the English
Church_, ed. Stephens and Hunt, in 8 vols., noticed below under
various periods; H. O. Wakeman, _An Introduction to the History of the
Church of England_ (London, 1896), a brightly written manual by a
pronounced high churchman. Documents: D. Wilkins, _Concilia_
(446-1717) (4 vols. fol., London, 1737), a splendid work; A. W. Haddan
and Bishop W. Stubbs, _Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents_ (3
vols., Oxford, 1869-1873), supersedes Wilkins so far as it goes, but
deals with English Church only to 870, with Welsh, Scottish and
Cumbrian churches to later dates; H. Gee and W. J. Hardy, _Documents
of English Church History_ (to 1700) (London, 1896), useful for
students. Constitutional: Bishop W. Stubbs, _Constitutional History of
England_ (parts of) (3 vols., revised ed., Oxford, 1895-1897), a work
of great learning; F. Makower, _Constitutional History of the Church
of England_, from the German (London, 1895); F. W. Maitland, _Roman
Canon Law in the Church of England_ (London, 1898), authoritative.
(See under CONVOCATION.)

From 597: Bede, _Historia ecclesiastica_, ed. C. Plummer (2 vols.,
Oxford, 1896), the primary authority to 731, trans. by J. A. Giles
(Bohn's Library) and others; see also Eddi's contemporary "Vita
Wilfridi," in _Historians of York_, ed. James Raine, Rolls series (3
vols., 1879-1894); W. Bright, _Early English Chur