ROGERS, John, English Reformed clew man, first martyr in the persecution under Queen Mary: b. Deritend, Aston parish, near Birmingham, about 1500; d. London, 4' Feb. 1555. Ile obtained his education at Cambridge in 1532-34, was rector of Trinity and Less, Lon don, and then went to Antwerp as chaplain to the English merchants. There, it is said, he was led by William Tindall, then busy on the translation of the Old Testament into English, to change his religious views. He then took charge of a Protestant congregation at Witten berg, and prepared for the press an English rendering of the Bible, including Tindall's blew Testament, sad Old Testament as far as the end of 2 Chronicles. His part in the transla tion was slight, but his marginal notes formed the earliest English commentary on the Scrip tures. The whole constituted the second COMM. piete version in English, Covendale's having ap peared in 1535, while this appeared, with the pseudonym '
in 1537. In 1548 Rogers returned to Eng in 1550 was simultaneously made rector Crgaint Margaret Moyses, London, and vicar of Saint Sepulchre there. In 1551 he received the prebend of Saint Pancras in Saint Pass's Cathedral. In 1553 he preached twice at Paul's Cross, the second time against Catholicism (6 August), three days aerQueen Mary's arrival in London. He
deptived of the emoluments of his benefices, on V Jan. 1554, im prisoned at Newgate at the instance of Bonner, new bishop of London, and after two examiner tions (22, 29 January), was burned at the stake at Smithfield; showing, says Fox, '