ROGERS, JOHN [SSNE 3419]
- Surname
- ROGERS
- First name
- JOHN, JAMES
- Title/rank
- DR
- Nationality
- ENGLISH
- Region
- Social status
- GENTRY
- Education
- UNIVERSITY
- Religion
Text source
Dr John Rogers [Bieganska calls him James Rogers] acted as an envoy to Poland-Lithuania for the Eastland Company from 1580-1581. His trip to Poland included stops in Sweden, Denmark and the Hanse towns. Anna Bieganska suggests he was Scottish and that he was in Poland-Lithuania on a spying mission against Scottish Jesuits and that he remained in the country until 1610.G. M. Bell, A Handlist of British Diplomatic Representatives 1509-1688 (London, 1990); PRO, SP/88/1; BL, Sloane 2442; A. Bieganska, The Learned Scots in Poland (From the Mid-Sixteenth to the close of the Eighteenth Century) in 'Canadian Slavonic Review, Vol. XLIII, No. 1, March 2001, p.26.
Service record
- ENGLAND, DENMARK-NORWAY
- Arrived 1580-08-16
- Departed 1580-10-10
- Capacity AMBASSADOR, purpose DIPLOMACY
- ENGLAND, ELBING
- Arrived 1580-09-11
- Departed 1580-10-10
- Capacity AMBASSADOR, purpose DIPLOMACY
- ENGLAND, POLAND-LITHUANIA
- Arrived 1581-03-11
- Departed 1610-09-30
- Capacity AMBASSADOR, EASTLAND COMPANY MERCHANT FACTOR, purpose DIPLOMACY, COMMERCE, TRADE