John Rogers

Chart tracing the ancestors of the Reverend John Rogers (c 1500-1555), translator of the Bible and the first English Protestant martyr under Queen Mary I, back to Sir Tancred de Hautville (c 970-c 1058) and King Edward I of England (1239-1307). Featuring illustrations of St Paul's Cathedral before the Great Fire of London of 1666, and of the rebuilt Cathedral in 1954; the Arms of the Rogers and Courtenay families; John Rogers, with the quotation 'That which I have preached I will seal with my blood!'; and a quotation from Thomas Macaulay: 'The English Bible [.] A book which - if everything else in our language should perish - would suffice to show the full extent of its beauty and power.'

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