Rogers, John, the first of the Marian martyrs, born at Birmingham; prepared a revised edition of the English Bible, preached at Paul's Cross against Romanism the Sunday after Mary's entrance into London, and was after a long imprisonment tried for heresy, and condemned to be burned at Smithfield (1505‒1555).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Rogers, James E. Thorwold * Rogers, Samuel