Rogers, JOHN

Rogers, JOHN, the first of the Marian martyrs, was born near Birmingham in 1505, graduated in 1525 from Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, was a London rector (1532-34), and then lived for some years abroad, at Antwerp and Wittenberg, where he embraced the Reformed doctrines. He prepared a revised translation of the Bible (q.v., p. 127), which was published as 'Matthew's Bible' in 1537, and, returning to England in 1548, preached at St Paul's Cross in 1553, just after Queen Mary's accession, against Romanism. After a long imprisonment he was tried as a heretic, and burned at Smithfield on 4th February 1555. See his Life by Colonel J. L. Chester (1861).