John Rogers had matriculated at the University…
1548 CE
John Rogers had matriculated at the University of Wittenberg in November 1540, where he had remained for three years, becoming a close friend of Philipp Melanchthon and other leading figures of the early Protestant Reformation.
On leaving Wittenberg, he had spent four and a half years as a superintendent of a Lutheran church in Meldorf, Dithmarschen, near the mouth of the River Elbe in the north of Germany.
Rogers returns to England in 1548, where he publishes a translation of Melanchthon's Considerations of the Augsburg Interim.
On returning to London, Rogers is given preferments and appointed lecturer at Saint Paul's Cathedral.
English chronicler and lawyer Edward Hall writes The Union of the Two Noble Families of Lancaster and York, published in 1542 and in 1548, the year after his death.
To the historian, it furnishes what is evidently the testimony of an eyewitness on several matters of importance that are neglected by other narrators; and to the student of literature it has the exceptional interest of being one of the prime sources of Shakespeare's historical plays.
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