(6) II. Rev. DANIEL, ROGERS,2 B.D., was born in 1573. he became minister of Haversham, Buckinghamshire, and afterward of the place of his birth, and was persecuted by Arch bishop Laud, for preaching against Arminianism and popish ceremonies. -
He was a man of great abilities and great grace; through his natural temper was such, that Mr. John Ward used to say, " My brother Rogers has grace enough for two men, but not enough for himself.'' He received the high applause of all who knew him, but always discovered a very low opinion of himself. He often said, as infirmities came upon him, "To die is work of itself; " but as his end appproached, became serene and happy, and exclaimed,"Oh glorious redemption." He died in 1652, at eighty years of age. His fame and usefulness were great in his day, and he was classed among learned writers and Fellows of Christ's College. There is a portrait of him in the library, Red-cross Street, London.
His wife was Margaret Bishop. They left children.
1. Rev. Daniel, Rector of Wotton, Northhamptonshire, m. 1st., Dorothy Bull, daughter of the then Mayor of Northampton, 2d wife was daughter of Reading, Counsellor at Law.
2. Hannah, wife of Roger Cockington.
3. Rev. Samuel of Crees Church, London.
4. Mary. 5. Margaret.
Calarmy's life of Baxter. - Neal's Hist. of the Puritans. - Brook's lives of do, - Berry's Genealogies Of the county of Kent. - —Memoir of Mrs Elizabeth Long. - Macaulay's History of England vol. I., chap. 3.