(now historical) Those people living in Ireland or in Wales who are of English descent (chiefly with definite article).

(law, now historical) The state or privilege of being an Englishman. / Englishness.

plural of presentment of Englishry

(law, historical) successful proof or act of proving by the relatives of the deceased that one who had died suddenly was English, in order to avoid the fine levied (under the Norman kings) upon the hundred (an administrative subdivision) or township for the murder of a Norman