ABSTRACT
In stark contrast to England, not one Catholic priest had been executed in Scotland up to 1603; the only Scottish Catholic to be martyred was John Ogilvie, put to death in Glasgow in 1615. James 'positively welcomed known Catholics to his court and service', and church papists attained high office, marking the emergence of 'court Catholicism' in Protestant England. Catholics were heartened by the knowledge that James was the son of a devout Catholic, Mary Queen of Scots, and the husband of Anne of Denmark, a Lutheran convert to Rome. In 1603, English Catholicism was deeply divided. Most Catholics supported James's accession to the throne and simply hoped for toleration. The Catholic minority also continued to face discrimination in many forms. The religious situation in Elizabethan and Jacobean England was anything but monolithic. Scotland's Covenanters had prepared the way for England's Puritans.
