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Adriana Alids DeWeyden PRATT DEWEYDEN

1511-1555
Born: Barant, Antwerpen, Belgium,
Died: Smithfield, London, , England,

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  • Story: Adriana Pratt

    <p>Name:<strong>Adriana Pratt</strong></p><p>Birth:&nbsp;1511 in Brabant, Antwerp, Belgium</p><p>Death:&nbsp;1536 in Smithfield, <span><font color="#999999">[parish]</font></span>, <span><font color="#999999">[county]</font></span>, England</p><p>Father:&nbsp;Deweyden Pratt (1473-1567)</p><p>Mother:&nbsp;Mrs Weyden Pratt (1490-)</p><p>Spouse:&nbsp;John Rogers Reverend (1507-1555)</p>

  • Story: Adriana' Name

    <p>+ Her name was Adriana de Weyden when she was married to Rev. John Rogers. When they returned to England, her name was officially anglicised to Adriana Pratt.</p>

  • Story: Information According To The Genealogy Of William Rogers

    John, born in 1505, educated at Cambridge, then went to Antwerp, The Netherlands, where he met Tyndale and Coverdale. In 1551 he was appointed Prebendary of St. Paul&#39;s Cathedral. In 1537 he published the first authorized Bible in English under the name of Thomas Matthew. He was burned at the stake in Smithfield, February 4, 1555, and was the first Martyr of Queen Mary&#39;s reign. He married Adriana Pratt of Brabant, and had eleven sons and three daughters. (&quot;The Book Makers of Old Birmingham&quot; Ref. Lib. Birmingham, Eng).

  • Story: Originally Submitted By Carollamb1 To LAMB & RATCLIFFE FAMILY On 16 Sep 2006

    <div> <div style="width: 490px; max-width: 490px; background-color: #ffffd3"><p>John Rogers was born at Deritend soon after 1500. At Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and later at Oxford, he absorbed the New Learning which Erasmus and Colet had fostered there. He was born too late to be under their actual tuition. For two years, till 1534, he was Vicar of Trinity the Less in the city of London. Shortly after Sir Thomas More&rsquo;s arrest in 1534, Rogers went to Antwerp as chaplain to the Merchant Adventurers. Tyndale was then in Antwerp working at the Biblical translation which led to his arrest and death (1535-1536). Rogers completed and edited Tyndale&#39;s translation. It is known as the Matthew Bible (&ldquo;Thomas Matthew&rdquo; being Rogers under an assumed name which protected him from Tyndale&#39;s fate). This Bible, by a Royal proclamation in 1537, was to be provided for all to read, in every parish of the land. Meanwhile Rogers had married a daughter of an Antwerp family (Adriana Pratt de Weyden). He thereby severed himself from the medieval church with its celibate priesthood and decisively threw in his lot with the Reformers. In 1537 he went to Wittenberg (where Luther&rsquo;s manifesto, twenty years before, had inaugurated the Reformation). Rogers ministered as pastor to a Wittenberg congregation for eleven years. As soon as the marriage of priests was tolerated in Edward VI&rsquo;s reign, he returned to England. He became Vicar of St. Sepulchers Holborn, and a prebendary of St. Paul&rsquo;s. As a preacher at Paul&rsquo;s Cross he fearlessly denounced the misappropriation of the properties accruing from the dissolution of the monasteries. But the accession of Mary Tudor brought a sudden and far severer test of the preacher&rsquo;s courage and sincerity. Rogers was the first called upon to preach at St. Paul&#39;s Cross after Mary&#39;s arrival, as undoubted Queen, in London. He could have had no illusions as to the nature of the preacher&#39;s ordeal. The Privy Council under whose scrutiny he would be preaching was already &ldquo;overmatched with papist bishops.&rdquo; When Rogers was a young celibate priest, Bilney and Frith had been martyred. Their example had been with him for twenty years to warn him as to what a confession of the Reformation faith was likely now to involve. Ridley&rsquo;s imprisonment added a rather different warning. And he had now, as hostages to fortune, his wife and ten children. &ldquo;There was,&rdquo; says a biographer, &lsquo;in the whole of the Reformation, all things considered, no position where the responsibilities thrown upon one man were greater or more nobly sustained.&rdquo; The preacher&rsquo;s vocation had become that of the first martyr of the Marian persecution. He accepted the challenge. In his sermon that day he denounced what he considered to be papist errors and bore witness to the truth as he saw it through eyes that had been opened by Colet and Erasmus, by Tyndale, Luther and Melancthon. Rogers was summoned before the Council. His defence appears to have been that the laws of Edward VI&#39;s reign had not been repealed. He was set at liberty, only to be rearrested a few days later, in violation of the principle that forbids re-trial for the same alleged offence. He was placed under house arrest. In December his wife and eight other women pleaded in vain for &quot;enlargement.&quot; In January, 1554, he was imprisoned in Newgate, within a stone&#39;s throw of his own Church of St. Sepulchre. He was in Newgate for more than a year awaiting trial. During all the latter months, till the very day of his death, his wife and children were refused access to him. The income due to him both from St. Sepulchre&rsquo;s and from his prebend, bad been confiscated. Somehow food and shelter had to be found for his family, and also food for himself. The latter he proposed sharing with other prisoners more destitute than himself. Perhaps in the brief last moments when husband and wife met at Smithfield, he had made known to her the existence of this document and its whereabouts. About a hundred years ago its true copy was found, a document of paramount interest and importance. Hooper had been tried and condemned on the same day as Rogers. They passed each other as they were being led from the scene of the trial (probably what is now the Lady Chapel of Southwark Cathedral). Hooper, looking back said: &ldquo;Come brother Rogers, must we two take this matter first in hand and begin to try these faggots?&rdquo; &ldquo;Yes sir.&rdquo; replied Rogers &ldquo;By God&#39;s grace doubt not.&rdquo; returned Hooper, &ldquo;but God will give us strength.&rdquo; Later from his cell Rogers sent a message to Hooper: &ldquo;There was never little fellow better would stick to a man than he (Rogers) would stick to him.&rdquo; To prevent a demonstration of the crowd the torches of the costemongers&#39; stalls and other lights in the streets between Southwark and Newgate had to be extinguished. But the Londoners brought out candles to light the prisoner&#39;s way on that strange &quot;bridal&quot; procession across London Bridge. Hooper was taken from Newgate to Gloucester to be burnt at the stake near his own cathedral. But before Hooper reached Gloucester, Rogers was burnt at Smithfield, within his own parish. As he went along the road from Newgate to Smithfield, past his own church of St. Sepulchre&rsquo;s, there were shouts of thanksgiving from the crowds. The French Ambassador (a Roman Catholic) wrote of Rogers that he went as one who goes to a wedding. Bradford, soon to suffer martyrdom in the same cause, said that Rogers &ldquo;broke the ice valiantly.&rdquo; Ridley, from prison said that his death &ldquo;destroyed a lumpish heaviness in my heart.&rdquo; On the Monday morning of his death, the Sheriff had shown Rogers a document promising pardon if he would recant. &ldquo;That which I have preached with my lips will I seal with my blood,&rdquo; was the answer. Now that the dust of bitter and mortal controversies has died down, it is possible if we look attentively, to see John Rogers in his true stature, as no one --not even Hooper himself--could have seen him before his death. The figure that emerges is of one who held the Reformers&#39; faith with great integrity, uncorrupted by power or threat. In the penetrating spiritual exposure of those critical years, he did not waver. He died for conscience sake, and blazed the trail for the three hundred who were to follow him to the stake. He was therefore of the company of the great proto-martyrs--of Sir Thomas More, in the same century, of St. Stephen, in the first century, of our era. And like them he brings perennial encouragement to hard-pressed men and women of today and to-morrow in a world where the fires of different kind of persecution have been lit, and other martyrs are sealing their faith with their blood. ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ Joseph Lemuel Chester, author of John Rogers: The Compiler of the First Authorised English Bible; the Pioneer of the English Reformation; and Its First Martyr (London, 1861), describes Rogers&rsquo; final minutes: It was Monday morning, between nine and ten o&rsquo;clock, the 4th day of February, 1555, when Rogers was led, for the last time, through the gates of the dreary prison that had been his home for more than a twelfthmonth, and, amidst a formidable army of armed guards, was conducted towards Smithfield. His emotions may, to some extent, be conceived, but cannot be wholly understood. Doubtless, he gazed backwards, giving one last look to the venerable Cathedral where he had often ministered, and breathed a silent prayer for those then within its familiar precincts. But a few steps brought him within the shadow of his own church walls, and perhaps, even then, the bell of St. Sepulchre&rsquo;s, which had often called him to its altar, was tolling slowly in its ancient tower the funeral knell of its old pastor. Thousands of spectators met his eye on every side, and among them he recognised many a familiar face. In spite of the guards by whom he was surrounded, their emotions could not be restrained, and the air resounded with their acclamations of joy and sorrow---sorrow, that their old friend and teacher was to be torn from them in such a terrible manner, and joy, that he met his doom so nobly and fearlessly. Shouts of praise and thanks giving arose from every direction, as he passed along on that fatal march, and so wonderful and earnest was the general rejoicing, that even the enemies of the Faith described him and the scene as a bridegroom going to meet his bride at the wedding altar. ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ The following is an excerpt from Chapter XXX of A Child&rsquo;s History of England by Charles Dickens, &ldquo;England Under Mary&rdquo;: Everything was now ready for the lighting of the terrible bonfires. The queen having declared to the council, in writing, that she would wish none of her subjects to be burnt without some of the council being present, and that she would particularly wish there to be good sermons at all burnings, the council knew pretty well what was to be done next. So after the cardinal had blessed all the bishops as a preface to the burnings, the Chancellor Gardiner opened a high court at St. Mary Overy, on the Southwark side of London Bridge, for the trial of heretics. Here two of the late Protestant clergymen, Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester, and Rogers, a prebendary of St. Paul&rsquo;s, were brought to be tried. Hooper was tried first for being married, though a priest, and for not believing in the mass. He admitted both of these accusations, and said that the mass was a wicked imposition. Then they tried Rogers, who said the same. Next morning the two were brought up to be sentenced; and then Rogers said that his poor wife, being a German (sic) woman and a stranger in the land, he hoped might be allowed to come to speak to him before he died. To this the inhuman Gardiner replied, that she was not his wife. &ldquo;Yea, but she is, my lord,&rdquo; said Rogers; &ldquo;she hath been my wife these eighteen years.&rdquo; His request was still refused, and they were both sent to Newgate; all those who stood in the streets to sell things being ordered to put out their lights that the people might not see them. But the people stood at their doors with candles in their hands, and prayed for them as they went by. Soon afterwards Rogers was taken out of jail to be burnt in Smithfield; and, in the crowd as he went along, he saw his poor wife and his ten children, of whom the youngest was a little baby. And so he was burnt to death. ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ </p></div> <div style="overflow: hidden; display: none"> <br><span> Save </span> <span> or&nbsp;Cancel </span> </div> </div> <!-- Comments --> //<![CDATA[ function switchModeSingle(showMe, hideMe) { if (document.getElementById) { var srcEl=document.getElementById(showMe); if (srcEl) { srcEl.style.display = ""; } srcEl=document.getElementById(hideMe); if (srcEl) { srcEl.style.display = "none"; } } } function switchMode(cmtOrd, showEdit, total) { var iCmt = 0; while(iCmt <= total) { if(iCmt != cmtOrd || showEdit == false) switchModeSingle("roInst" + iCmt, "editInst" + iCmt); else switchModeSingle("editInst" + iCmt, "roInst" + iCmt); iCmt++; } } function ConfirmRemove() { return confirm("Are you sure you want to delete this comment?"); } function gotoAddComment() { window.location.hash="#addCommentAnchor"; var inputs = document.getElementsByTagName('input'); for (var i=0; i < inputs.length; i++) { var id = inputs[i].getAttribute('id'); if (id != null && id.indexOf('addSubject') > 0) { // set focus on the subject field inputs[i].focus(); break; } } } function addError (errorCell, errorDiv, errorMsg) { if (errorCell.length > 0) { document.getElementById(errorCell).style.background = "#FFE1D4"; } if (errorDiv.length > 0) { document.getElementById(errorDiv).style.display = ""; } if (errorMsg.length > 0) { var list = document.getElementById("errorList"); var listItem = document.createElement('li'); listItem.innerHTML = errorMsg; list.appendChild(listItem); } } function clearErrors() { var list = document.getElementById("errorList"); list.innerHTML = ""; document.getElementById("errorBox").style.display = "none"; document.getElementById('subjectCell').style.background = ""; document.getElementById('subjectError').style.display = "none"; document.getElementById('commentCell').style.background = ""; document.getElementById('commentError').style.display = "none"; } function Validate() { var hasError = false; clearErrors(); var inputs = document.getElementsByTagName('input'); for (var i=0; i 0) { // validate subject var subject = inputs[i].value; if (subject.length == 0) { addError('subjectCell', 'subjectError', 'Please enter a Subject'); hasError = true; } break; } } var textareas = document.getElementsByTagName('textarea'); for (var i=0; i 0) { // validate description var desc = textareas[i].value; if (desc.length == 0) { addError('commentCell', 'commentError', 'Please enter a Comment'); hasError = true; } break; } } if (hasError) { document.getElementById("errorBox").style.display = ""; } return !hasError; } //]]> <br>

 
 
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