Pembroke Hall, we should remember, was the College at which both Ridley and Bradford were members, and in all human probability Rogers was a contemporary and acquaintance of these good men. It is only certain that he was educated at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and took his degree as B.A. Known about his father's family, rank, or position and just as little about his own early history, and the firgt thirty years of his life. Chester's book is very useful and interesting. My own estimate of Rogers has always been extremely high, and it has been based on the testimony of Fox! Barring these two defects, however, Mr.

This charge, I must plainly say, I think he fails to prove. For another thing, the author speaks far too harshly of John Fox, the historian, and accuses him most unfairly of underrating Rogers.

For one thing, the author goes out of his way to depreciate such men as Ridley and Cranmer, and praises Rogers so extravagantly, that he overshoots his mark and wearies the reader. Two defects unhappily impair the value of this book very much. * By far the fullest account of Rogers will be found in a biography of him published by Mr. Rogers was born about the year 1500 A.D., at Deritend, a hamlet in the parish of Aston, and now within the present borough of Birmingham* Little or nothing is In the noble army of English martyrs he^was eminently a standard-bearer. Some account of this good man can hardly fail to be interesting to all loyal Churchmen. By his courage and constancy at the stake he supplied a glorious example to all who followed him, and mightily helped forward the English Reformation. He was the first of that noble band of Christian heroes who suffered martyrdom for God's truth in Queen Mary's reign. John Rogers, who was burned at Smithfield in 1555, is a man who deserves to be held in peculiar honour by all English Protestants, for one simple reason.

New Age Bible by John Rodgers