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OGILVIE (or OGILBY), JOHN (c. 158o-1615)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 24 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OGILVIE (or See also:OGILBY), See also:JOHN (c. 158o-1615)  , See also:English Jesuit, was See also:born in See also:Scotland and educated mainly in See also:Germany, where he entered the Society of Jesus, being ordained See also:priest at See also:Paris in 1613 . As an emissary of the society he returned to Scotland in this See also:year disguised as a soldier, and in See also:October 1614 he was arrested in See also:Glasgow . He defended himself stoutly when he was tried in See also:Edinburgh, but he was condemned to See also:death and was hanged on the 28th of See also:February 1615 . A True Relation of the Proceedings against See also:John See also:Ogilvie, a Jesuit (Edinburgh, 1615), is usually attributed to See also:Archbishop See also:Spottiswoode . See also See also:James See also:Forbes, L'Eglise catholique en Ecosse: martyre de See also:Jean Ogilvie (Paris, 1885) ; and W . Forbes-See also:Leith, Narratives of Scottish Catholics (1885) .

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