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

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