Religious tolerance and intolerance in Jacobean Scotland: the case of Archibald Hegate revisited
Recent research has shown that urban magistrates across early modern Europe generally tackled the problem of religious pluralism through de facto religious tolerance. Archibald Hegate was a Catholic notary public and town clerk of Glasgow, who lived and worked in the burgh during the reign of James...
| Subtitles: | Biography and James VI's Scotland |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University Press
[2016]
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| In: |
The Innes review
Year: 2016, Volume: 67, Issue: 2, Pages: 159-181 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KBF British Isles KDB Roman Catholic Church KDD Protestant Church SA Church law; state-church law |
| Further subjects: | B
John Ogilvie
B Burghs B Religious Tolerance B James VI B Protestantism B Glasgow B Jesuits B Archibald Hegate B urban history B Notaries B Reformation Scotland |
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| Summary: | Recent research has shown that urban magistrates across early modern Europe generally tackled the problem of religious pluralism through de facto religious tolerance. Archibald Hegate was a Catholic notary public and town clerk of Glasgow, who lived and worked in the burgh during the reign of James VI. This examination of Hegate's life and career argues that the town magistrates' attitude towards Catholics was dictated by that of the crown, which was generally tolerant unless the king saw fit to persecute them for short-term political reasons. Hegate himself was consequently forced to modify his behaviour towards kirk and state until increased persecution under the newly-established episcopate forced him to leave Glasgow in 1612. Hegate is linked to John Ogilvie's Jesuit mission of 1614-5 and the period 1612-17 is argued to be one in which, by contrast with the period of relative tolerance that had previously existed in Scotland, attitudes towards religious pluralism on all sides were all hardening. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5219 |
| Reference: | Errata "Corrigenda (2017)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Innes review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3366/inr.2016.0125 |