Rev John ROGERS

1507 - 1555  (48 years)

• Name	John ROGERS
  Prefix	Rev
  Born	4 Feb 1507	Deritend, Warwickshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Also Known As	The Martyr
  Clergy	Y
  Info Unproven	Y
  Died	4 Feb 1555	Smithfield, Hertfordshire, England
  Person ID	I43990	Main
  Last Modified	25 Aug 2017

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth WEBB,   b. Abt 1511, Brabant, Antwerp, Belgium ,   d. 8 Aug 1572, Smithfield, Hertfordshire, England  (Age ~ 61 years)
  Married	1536	Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium
  Children	+ 1. John ROGERS,   b. 21 Nov 1538, Wittenberg, Sachsen, Germany ,   d. 3 Jul 1601, Chelmsford, Essex, England  (Age 62 years)   2. Elizabeth ROGERS,   b. Abt 1549, Poole, Dorsetshire, England ,   d. 24 Dec 1612, St Thomas, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England  (Age ~ 63 years)
  Last Modified	25 Aug 2017
  Family ID	F30938	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Married - 1536 - Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  The Rev. John Rogers was a Roman Catholic Priest who abandoned the Roman Catholic faith, to promote Protestantism. He published the first English Bible under the pseudonym Thomas Matthews. After taking charge of a Protestant congregation in Wittenberg for some years, Rogers returned to England in 1548. In 1550, he became Rector of St. Margaret Moyses and in the following year he was made Vicar of St. Sepulchre in London. In 1551 he was made a prebendary. In April, 1552, his family were naturalized under a special act of Parliament. He continued his church work until the accession of Queen Mary to the throne, when on Sunday after her triumphal entry into London 16 July, 1553, he preached a sermon at St. Paul's Cross commending the "true doctrine taught in King Edward's days,," and warning his listeners against "pestilent Popery.” He was summoned before the council and put under house arrest. He never preached again. In January 1554, Bonner, the new bishop of London, sent him to Newgate Prison where he remained for about a year. On 22 January 1555, Rogers and other Protestant preachers were brought before the Privy Council and examined. Cardinal Pole, on 28 January 1555, ordered a commission to proceed against persons liable to prosecution under the statutes against heresy, and six days later through sanction of the Council, Rogers was condemned and sentenced as an excommunicated heretic, to be burned to death at the stake at Smithfield. This sentence was carried out the morning of Monday 4 February 1555. He was not allowed to spend any time with his wife and children before he died, although they were forced to watch him being burned at the stake. He had been offered a pardon if he would renounce Protestantism, but with holy scorn he utterly refused it. He was the first Protestant martyr of Mary's reign. —— Rev. John Rogers was a sixth generation Rogers who chose to become a clergyman. He was born at the family home 'Deritend'. He was educated at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, where he graduated with a B.A. in 1526. He was then chosen to the Cardinal's College at Oxford and soon went into holy orders in the Roman Catholic Church. On 26 December 1532, he became Rector of the Church of Holy Trinity in the city of London and served two years. He resigned in 1534 and went to Antwerp as chaplain to the English merchants. Here he met William Tyndale, under whose influence he abandoned the Roman Catholic faith and, in 1536, married Adriana Pratt alias 'de Weedy' (a surname which means 'meadow', in Latin "Prata," but anglicized into Pratt). They had eleven children - 8 sons and 3 daughters. [1]

  
  

• Sources

  [S151] WikiTree, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Rogers-321.