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See also: English See also: Protestant See also: martyr, was See also: born in the parish of See also: Aston, near See also: Birmingham, and was educated at Pembroke See also: Hall, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1526
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Six years later he was 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
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Here he met See also: William Tyndale, under whose influence he abandoned the
See also: Roman Catholic faith, and married an Antwerp lady
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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
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Tyndale's New Testament had been published in 1526
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The See also: complete See also: Bible was put out under the pseudonym of See also: Thomas
See also: Matthew in 1537; it was printed in Antwerp, and See also: Richard Grafton published the sheets and got leave to sell the edition (1500 copies) in See also: England
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Rogers had little to do with the translation, but he contributed some valuable prefaces and marginal notes
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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
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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 Augsburg See also: Interim
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In 1550 he was presented to the See also: crown livings of St See also: Margaret Moyses and St Sepulchre in London, and in 1551 was made a prebendary of St See also: Paul's, where the dean and chapter soon appointed him divinity lecturer
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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 council
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He also declined to See also: wear the prescribed See also: vestments, donning instead a See also: simple round cap
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On the accession of Mary he preached at Paul'sSee 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
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His emoluments were taken away and his prebend was filled in See also: October
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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
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In See also: December 1554 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 place
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On the 28th and 29th he came before the commission appointed by See also: Cardinal See also: Pole, and was sentenced to death by Gardiner for heretically denying the Christian character of the See also: Church of
See also: Rome and the real presence in the See also: sacrament
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He awaited and met death (on the 4th of See also: February 1555 at Smithfield) cheerfully, though denied even an interview with his wife
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See also: Noailles, the French 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 broke the 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 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 share in the Bangorian controversy (1719), his Vindication of the See also: Civil 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
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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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