John Rogers, a protestant prebendary of St Paul's, is burnt at the stake at Smithfield market, 1555. The first protestant martyr under Bloody Mary. Rogers a priest burnt. Copperplate engraving from M. A. Jones’ History of England from Julius Caesar to George IV, G. Virtue, 26 Ivy Lane, London, 1836.

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