The Church of England is Protestant

http://www.churchsociety.org/publications/tracts/CAT049_ProtestantCofE.pdf

[Church Society] 11 Jul 2006--Of all the daring, attempts to falsify history and fact, and to insult common sense, none is more astounding than the effort to advance the growth of Romanizing principles by the baseless assertion industriously propagated, that the Church of England is not Protestant. Imbued with principles to which Protestantism is a standing reproach, the advocates of this untenable proposition loudly vaunt their Catholicity. Their claim is amusing if tested by the sense they have chosen to assign to it—a sense unauthorized by the Church of England. For in the use of the word Catholic in her formularies she defines her meaning beyond all question of ambiguity....

The Anglican Church has been torn by controversy throughout its history. I have published Church Association Tract 049 for my readers who may be unfamiliar with the bitter controversy that raged in the nineteenth century over the growing influence of Romanism in the Church of England and the then Protestant Episcopal Church.