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John Rogers, of 'Deritend' the second son of Katherine de Courtenay and
her h usband Thomas Rogers was born at Bradford On Avon in Wiltshire. He
had receiv ed a good education and had financial backing from his mother's
family that e nabled him to 'live the good life'! Due to the fact he was
the son of a disti nguished father, he was well received wherever he went
even though he had not  inherited land or houses. John had cousins in Kent
that he went to visit. (V isits in those days could have been for months
at a time) It was here that he  met Margaret Wyatt, daughter of Sir Henry
Wyatt of Abington Castle - near Ma idstone. They were married in 1505-6.
Her father was very prominent in the Co urts of King Henry VII and King
Henry VIII. She was half sister to Sir Thomas  Wyatt - poet and statesman
and aunt of Sir Thomas Wyatt who led the uprising  against the marriage of
Queen Mary to Philip of Spain and paid the penalty w ith his head.
John and Margaret settled at 'Deritend', in the parish of Aston near
Birmingham in Warwickshire County, He was frequently called "John Rogers
of Birmingham". They had five children, three sons and two daughters. The
eldest son and heir was also named John. Rev. John Rogers was a sixth
generat ion Rogers who chose to become a clergyman. He was born circa 1500
in the par ish of Aston, near Birmingham at the family home 'Deritend'. He
was educated at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, where he graduated with a B.A.
in 1526. He was t hen chosen to the Cardinal's College at Oxford and soon
thereafter went into holy orders in the Roman Catholic Church. On 26
December 1532, he became Rect or 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
C atholic 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. Susan, John
and Daniel were born i n Brabant; the next seven children (including our
ancestor Bernard Rogers who  was son number five) were born at Wittenberg
in Saxony, and the three younge st born in England. "After Tyndale's death
Rogers pushed on with his predeces sor's English version of the Old
Testament, which he used as far as 2nd Chron icles, employing Coverdale's
translation (1535) for the remainder and for the  Apocrphya. (Early
Christian writings not included in the New Testament) Tynd ale's New
Testament had been published in 1526. The complete Bible was put ou t
under the pseudonym of Thomas Matthew in 1537; it was printed in Antwerp.
This edition was sometimes called the "Matthew Bible".
The Antwerp publishers  got permission to sell 1500 copies in England. His
work was largely used by those who prepared the Great Bible (1539-40),
out of which in turn came the B ishop's Bible (1568) and the Authorized
Version of 1611 (King James Version).  After taking charge of a Protestant
congregation in Wittenberg for some year s, Rogers returned to England in
1548. In 1550, he became Rector of St. Marga ret Moyses and, in the
following year he was made Vicar of St. Sepulchre in L ondon. In 1551 he
was made a prebendary (a canon or clergyman who is entitled  to a stipend
[prebend] for special services at a cathedral or collegiate chu rch) In
April, 1552, his family were naturalized under a special act of
Par liament. He continued his church work until the accession of Queen
Mary to th e 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 taugh t in King Edward's days,," and warning his hearers
against "pestilent Popery, " he was summoned before the council and
commanded to remain at home.
He nev er preached again. In January 1554 Bonner, the n