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presented him with a house in London, which he called Grampian Lodge. As early as 1854 Columbia College, New York, had given him the degree of LL.D. He was made a D.D. by the university of St. Andrews in 1881. He was a member, fellow, or correspondent of numerous learned societies, British, foreign, and colonial, and an associate of the Imperial Archæological Society of Russia. He returned to Scotland some years before his death, which took place at his house in Edinburgh on 18 Sept. 1890, at the aged 65. Rogers married, on 14 Dec. 1854, Jane, the eldest daughter of John Bain of St. Andrews.

Rogers's chief original writings may be classified thus: I. Historical and Biographical.—

  1. ‘Notes in the History of Sir Jerome Alexander,’ 1872.
  2. ‘Three Scots Reformers,’ 1874.
  3. ‘Life of George Wishart,’ 1875.
  4. ‘Memorials of the Scottish House of Gourlay,’ 1888.
  5. ‘Memorials of the Earls of Stirling and House of Alexander,’ 2 vols. 1877.
  6. ‘The Book of Wallace,’ 2 vols. 1889.
  7. ‘The Book of Burns,’ 3 vols. 1889–91.

II. Topographical.—

  1. ‘History of St. Andrews,’ 1849.
  2. ‘A Week at the Bridge of Allan,’ 1851; 10th edit. 1865.
  3. ‘The Beauties of Upper Strathearn,’ 1854.
  4. ‘Ettrick Forest and the Ettrick Shepherd,’ 1860.

III. Genealogical.—

  1. ‘Genealogical Chart of the Family of Bain,’ 1871.
  2. ‘The House of Roger,’ 1872.
  3. ‘Memorials of the Strachans of Thornton and Family of Wise of Hillbank,’ 1873.
  4. ‘Robert Burns and the Scottish House of Burnes,’ 1877.
  5. ‘Sir Walter Scott and Memorials of the Haliburtons,’ 1877.
  6. ‘The Scottish House of Christie,’ 1878.
  7. ‘The Family of Colt and Coutts,’ 1879.
  8. ‘The Family of John Knox,’ 1879.
  9. ‘The Scottish Family of Glen,’ 1888.

IV. Ecclesiastical.—

  1. ‘Historical Notices of St. Anthony's Monastery,’ Leith, 1849.
  2. ‘History of the Chapel Royal of Scotland,’ 1882.

V. Social.—

  1. ‘Familiar Illustrations of Scottish Life,’ 1861; 2nd edit. 1862.
  2. ‘Traits and Stories of the Scottish People,’ 1867.
  3. ‘Scotland, Social and Domestic,’ 1869.
  4. ‘A Century of Scottish Life,’ 1871.
  5. ‘Monuments and Monumental Inscriptions in Scotland,’ 2 vols. 1871–2.
  6. ‘Social Life in Scotland,’ 3 vols. 1884–6.

VI. Religious.—

  1. ‘Christian Heroes in the Army and Navy,’ 1867.
  2. ‘Our Eternal Destiny,’ 1868.

VII. Poetical.—

  1. ‘The Modern Scottish Minstrel,’ 6 vols. 1855–7.
  2. ‘The Sacred Minstrel,’ 1859.
  3. ‘The Golden Sheaf,’ 1867.
  4. ‘Lyra Britannica,’ 1867.
  5. ‘Life and Songs of the Baroness Nairne,’ 1869.

VIII. Autographical and General.

  1. ‘Issues of Religious Rivalry,’ 1866.
  2. ‘Leaves from my Autobiography,’ 1876.
  3. ‘The Serpent's Track,’ 1880.
  4. ‘Parting Words to the Members of the Royal Historical Society,’ 1881.
  5. ‘Threads of Thought,’ 1888.
  6. ‘The Oak,’ 1868.

Rogers also edited:

  1. ‘Aytoun's Poems,’ 1844.
  2. ‘Campbell's Poems,’ 1870.
  3. ‘Sir John Scot's Staggering State of Scottish Statesmen,’ 1872.
  4. ‘Poetical Remains of King James,’ 1873.
  5. ‘Hay's Estimate of the Scottish Nobility.’
  6. ‘Glen's Poems,’ 1874.
  7. ‘Diocesan Registers of Glasgow,’ 2 vols. 1875 (in conjunction with Mr. Joseph Bain).
  8. ‘Boswelliana,’ 1874.
  9. ‘Register of the Church of Crail,’ 1877.
  10. ‘Events in the North of Scotland, 1635 to 1645,’ 1877.
  11. ‘Chartulary of the Cistercian Priory of Coldstream,’ 1879.
  12. ‘Rental-book of the Cistercian Abbey of Cupar-Angus,’ 1880.
  13. ‘The Earl of Stirling's Register of Royal Letters,’ 2 vols. 1884–5.

[The autobiographical works above named; Athenæum, September 1890.]

H. P.

ROGERS, DANIEL (1538?–1591), diplomatist, eldest son of John Rogers (1500?–1555) [q. v.], was born at Wittenberg about 1538, came to England with his family in 1548, and was naturalised with them in 1552. After his father's death in 1555 he returned to Wittenberg, and studied under Melanchthon, but returned on Elizabeth's accession, and graduated B.A. at Oxford in August 1561. Nicasius Yetswiert, Elizabeth's secretary of the French tongue, who had known his father, and whose daughter Susan he afterwards married, introduced him to court. His knowledge of languages stood him in good stead. He was employed by Sir Henry Norris, the English ambassador in Paris between 1566 and 1570, and sent home much useful intelligence to Secretary Cecil. In October 1574 he went with Sir William Winter to Antwerp, and he accompanied an important embassy to the Netherlands, to treat with the Duke of Orange, in June 1575. In July he was elected secretary of the fellowship of English merchants settled at Antwerp. His father had in earlier years been their chaplain. He was still engaged in diplomatic business in the Low Countries through 1576, and in March 1577 was there again to negotiate the terms on which Queen Elizabeth was to lend 20,000l. to the States-General. This business occupied him till March 1578. In September 1580 he was ordered to Germany to induce the Duke of Saxony to stay dis-