And don't forget the Romans -- much later, but well documented. And they didn't actually conquer anybody in Hibernia.

Many "serious" Church-of-Englanders will tell you that the CofE is not and never was Protestant: it is Anglo-Catholic, as distinct from Roman Catholic, and the only difference is that the Pope believes he is the spiritual superior of the British monarch, while the Bm doesn't. I do not intend to advance arguments on either side of this! I'll just add that Henry VIII, as hinted at above, didn't like Protestants at all. (He executed Wycliffe for translating the New Testaent into English, then a few years later used it as the basis of his own translation. It survived largely into the King James AV too.)

Steve