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JOHN ROGERS (c. 1500-1555)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 457 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:ROGERS (c. 1500-1555)  , See also:English See also:Protestant See also:martyr, was See also:born in the See also:parish of See also:Aston, near See also:Birmingham, and was educated at See also:Pembroke See also:Hall, See also:Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1526 . Six years later he was See also:rector of See also:Holy Trinity, Queenhithe, See also:London, and in 1534 went to See also:Antwerp as See also:chaplain to the English merchants . Here he met See also:William See also:Tyndale, under whose See also:influence he abandoned the See also:Roman See also:Catholic faith, and married an Antwerp See also:lady . After Tyndale's See also:death See also:Rogers pushed on with his predecessor's English version of the Old Testament, which he used as far as 2 See also:Chronicles, employing See also:Coverdale's See also:translation (1535) for the See also:remainder and for the Apocrypha . Tyndale's New Testament had been published in 1526 . The See also:complete See also:Bible was put out under the See also:pseudonym of See also:Thomas See also:Matthew in 1537; it was printed in Antwerp, and See also:Richard See also:Grafton published the sheets and got leave to sell the edition (1500 copies) in See also:England . Rogers had little to do with the translation, but he contributed some valuable prefaces and marginal notes . His See also:work was largely used by those who prepared the See also:Great Bible (1539–40), out of which in turn came the See also:Bishop's Bible (1568) and the Authorized Version of 1611 . After taking See also:charge of a Protestant See also:congregation in See also:Wittenberg for some years, Rogers returned to England in 1548, where he published a translation of See also:Melanchthon's Considerations of the See also:Augsburg See also:Interim . In 1550 he was presented to the See also:crown livings of St See also:Margaret Moyses and St See also:Sepulchre in London, and in 1551 was made a See also:prebendary of St See also:Paul's, where the See also:dean and See also:chapter soon appointed him divinity lecturer . He courageously denounced the greed shown by certain courtiers with reference to the See also:property of the suppressed monasteries, and defended himself before the privy See also:council . He also declined to See also:wear the prescribed See also:vestments, donning instead a See also:simple See also:round cap .

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accession of See also:Mary he preached at Paul's See also:Cross commending the " true See also:doctrine taught in See also:King See also:Edward's days," and warning his hearers against " pestilent Popery, See also:idolatry and superstition." Ten days after (16th See also:August 1553), he was summoned before the council and bidden to keep within his own See also:house . His emoluments were taken away and his prebend was filled in See also:October . In See also:January 1554 See also:Bonner, the new bishop of London, sent him to Newgate, where he See also:lay with See also:John See also:Hooper, Laurence Saunders, John See also:Bradford and others for a See also:year, their petitions, whether for less rigorous treatment or for opportunity of stating their See also:case, being alike disregarded . In See also:December 1554 See also:parliament re-enacted the penal statutes against See also:Lollards, and on January 22nd, 1555, two days after they took effect, Rogers with ten others came before the council at See also:Gardiner's house in See also:Southwark, and held his own in the examination that took See also:place . On the 28th and 29th he came before the See also:commission appointed by See also:Cardinal See also:Pole, and was sentenced to death by Gardiner for heretically denying the See also:Christian See also:character of the See also:Church of See also:Rome and the real presence in the See also:sacrament . He awaited and met death (on the 4th of See also:February 1555 at Smithfield) cheerfully, though denied even an interview with his wife . See also:Noailles, the See also:French See also:ambassador, speaks of the support given to Rogers by the greatest See also:part of the See also:people: "even his See also:children assisted at it, comforting him in such a manner that it seemed as if he had been led to a See also:wedding." He was the first Protestant martyr of Mary's reign, and his friend Bradford wrote that " he See also:broke the See also:ice valiantly." The following divines of the same name may be distinguished: JOHN ROGERS (1572?–16o3), Puritan See also:vicar of See also:Dedham, See also:Essex, " one of the most awakening preachers of the See also:age."—JoHN ROGERS (1610-168o), ejected vicar of Croglin, See also:Cumberland, and the founder of Congregational churches in Teesdale and Weardale, where he evangelized the See also:lead miners.—JOHN ROGERS (1679–1729), one of See also:George II.'s chaplains, famous for his See also:share in the Bangorian controversy (1719), his Vindication of the See also:Civil See also:Establishment of See also:Religion (1728), and his Persuasives to Conformity, addressed to Dissenters (1736) and to See also:Quakers (1747).–JOHN ROGERS (174o?–1814), See also:leader of the Irish seceding divines, See also:minister of Cahans, Co . See also:Monaghan.—JoHN ROGERS (1778-1856), rector of Mawnan, See also:Cornwall, and the owner of the Penrose and See also:Helston estates; a See also:good botanist and mineralogist, and a distinguished See also:Hebrew and See also:Syriac See also:scholar .

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