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John Rogers—Sealed with Blood: The Story of the First Protestant Martyr of Mary Tudor’s Reign is unavailable, but you can change that!

The life of John Rogers has been largely overlooked in recent Reformation scholarship, but, as Tim Shenton shows in this fresh biography, Rogers is rightfully placed alongside such pivotal figures as William Tyndale and Thomas Cranmer. Rogers excelled as a scholar, and his publication of what is called Matthew’s Bible was a critical step toward making the English people a “people of the book.” ...

exclusive patent for printing church service books and an exclusive right to print primers in Latin and English. In Edward’s reign Whitchurch was on terms of intimacy with Protestant leaders and his press was always busy. He reprinted an edition of the New Testament in small octavo, many editions of the Prayer Book, and ‘the Great Bible’ in small folio. In 1548 Rogers was with Edward Whitchurch at his house in Fleet Street and the little volume he produced bears on the title page their combined monogram,
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