Daniel Rogers

, a most accomplished Gent. of his time, who puts in some of his writings the addition of Albimontanus to his name, was the Son of John Rogers (by his Wife Adriana Pratt alias de Weyden) Son of Joh. Rogers of Derytend in the Parish of Aston in Warwickshire, was by his Fathers care strictly educated in juvenile learning, but at the coming to the Crown of Q. Mary, being then about 13 years of age, he went with his Father, as it seems, beyond the Seas for Religion sake; where setling at Francfort, obtained great knowledge in humane learning, especially in the Greek tongue. After his return in the beginning of Q. Elizabeth, he was sent to Oxon, but to what particular Hall or Coll. therein, I know not. In July 1561 he was admitted Bach. of Arts, and in the beginning of Aug. following was licensed to proceed in the same faculty; the first of which Degrees he compleated not by Determination, nor the other by standing in the Comitia. Afterwards taking to Wife Susan Dau. of Nicasius Yetswiert secretary of the French tongue to Q. Eliz. and one of the Clerks of the signet, was introduced into the Court, where his most admirable parts being quickly discerned, he became one of the Clerks of the Council to that Queen, and often employed by her in (d)(d) Ibid. in Annalib. Camdeni, an. 1575. 77. & 88. vide Jac. Aug. Thuan. in Historiarum suit temp. lib. 89. p. 264. Embassies, as into the Netherlands an. 1575, to Don Joh. of Austria 1577, and to the K. of Denmark in 1588. He was a very good Man, excellently well learned, a good Lat. Poet, and one that was especially beloved by the famous Antiquary and Historian W. Camden, for whose sake he had laid the foundation of,

A discouse concerning the Acts of the Britains, the form of their Common-wealth, and the order and laws by which they lived—Which discourse he intended to communicate to the said Camden, to have it inserted in his Britannia, but he died (e)(e) Idem Camden in Britannia in cap. de morib. & consuetudinibus Britannorum. before ’twas finish’d. He wrot also,

Odae, Epigrammata, Epitaphia, &c. in laudem & mortem Johannis Juelli Episc. Sarisbur. See at the end of the said Jewells life written by L. Humphrey. He hath also published certain Latin Poems, which are quoted by the said Camden in his discourse (f)(f) lb. in Belgi [•] . of the City of Salisbury, and Poems in English mentioned by other Persons with great commendation, but these I have not yet seen. He hath also Lat. verses occasionally printed in other Authors, as before Ortelius his Theatrum orbis terrarum, and an Epigram to the University of Oxon, in Ralph Agas his Accurate description (or Type) of the said University, an. 1578. He yielded up his last breath to him that gave it, on the 11th of Febr. 1590-91. in Fifteen hundred and ninety; whereupon his body accompanied by an Herald or two, was buried on Shrovetuesday the 16 of the same month near to that of Nicas. Yetswiert before-mention’d in the Church of Sunbury near to Hampton-court in Middlesex. I find another Dan. Rogers later in time than the former, who among several things that he hath published are, (1) Davids cost, wherein every one who is desirous to serve God aright, may see what it must cost him. Lond. 1619. oct. being the effect of certain Sermons. (2) A practical Catechisme. Lond. 1633. (3) Lectures upon the History of Naaman the Syrian, his disease and cure. Lond. 1642—50. fol. (4) Matrimonial honour, or the crown and comfort of marriage, &c. Lond 1642. qu. with other things which I have not yet seen. But this D. Rogers who was a Man of most rare parts, was educated in Christs Coll. in Cambridge, afterwards a Minister and Bach. of Div. and I think the same, who was Parson of Haversham in Bucks. qu.