In a deeply ironic parallel to the religious persecution of Presbyterian Covenanters, also by Scottish Episcopalians, during the later events known as The Killing Time, Ogilvie's "high treason" involved merely refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy and renounce the independence of the Church from control by the State.

Despite repeated offers of a full pardon, a high position within the Established Church, and the hand in marriage of the Archbishop's daughter, Ogilvie refused to conform to Anglicanism and was hanged at Glasgow Cross on 10 March 1615.

[8] One eyewitness later recalled, "I know of a considerable number of persons whom he converted from heresy to the obedience of the Catholic Faith during the short time he spent in Scotland outside of prison.

"[9] Beginning in August 1614, Ogilvie began making pastoral visit to Glasgow,[10] where he usually stayed at the home of Marion Walker, a widow who later died as a prisoner for her religion.

"[10] On 14 October 1614, Ogilvie was, by his own admission, "betrayed by one of those whom I was to have reconciled to the Church",[12] and lured into an ambush at Glasgow Cross, as arranged by Anglo-Catholic Archbishop John Spottiswood.

According to historian George Scott-Moncrieff, "Archbishop Spottiswoode [was] a Presbyterian minister who had conformed to the Episcopal Church as it was re-established in Scotland by James VI in 1610.

James Stewart, a Protestant, although he knew Ogilvie's identity, tried to save him when Boyd and the Archbishop's servant came to arrest him; but he was seized and forcibly taken to the Provost's house.

"[13] In a written report to King James, Spottiswoode wrote, "Most Sacred and Gracious Sovereign, It has pleased God to cast into my hands a Jesuit that calls himself Ogilvie.

After assembling "the lairds and barons who happened to be at that time in the city", the Archbishop arrived on the scene intending to restore order, but instead found that the arrest has proceeded without incident.

[15] When he arrived at the magistrate's house, Spottiswoode first summoned Ogilvie to approach, then struck the Jesuit a blow, and said, "You were an over-insolent fellow, to say your Masses in a Reformed city.

He later recalled, "Then, as though the signal had been given them, they showed their blows from all sides upon me, the hair is plucked from my beard, my face is torn with their nails, until Count Fleming, by his authority and by main force, restrains those who were striking me."

[17] Despite being fully aware of the consequences, Ogilvie aggravated his position, not only by refusing to name anyone who had attended his Masses or received the sacraments from him, but also by firmly rejecting the royal supremacy of King James VI over the Church within his dominions.

"[18] According to historian George Scott-Moncrieff, Ogilvie is shown in the detailed records that survive of his interrogation and final trial to have been fighting "a kind of war with his own contempt" over what he saw as the spineless careerism of the Presbyterian ministers-turned-Episcopalian-bishops who now stood in judgment over him.

"[19] When his interrogators brought up the Gunpowder Plot, Ogilvie, "repelled the calumny, and showed that the Jesuits were acknowledged to be entirely free from blame with regard to it, and reminded them of the numerous conspiracies in which they themselves had been engaged against the King in former years, a retort which reduced them to silence.

"[18] For this reason, King James granted Spottiswoode written permission to torture Ogilvie, similarly to Elizabethan era Irish Catholic Martyr Dermot O'Hurley, by using the "hot boots".

"[22] In a deeply ironic parallel to the religious persecution of the Presbyterian Covenanters during the later events known as The Killing Time, it was for high treason based on his refusal to take the Oath of Supremacy that Fr.

[24][25] During the trial, Ogilvie expressed his loyalty to the House of Stuart in all purely secular matters and said that he would willingly shed his last drop of blood in defense of the King's claim to the throne if the British Isles were ever invaded by an army seeking regime change.

When an offer was made to help him escape on the night before his execution, Ogilvie, "expressed his extreme gratitude", but explained, "that death for so grand a cause was more acceptable than any life and that he looked forward to it with so sincere a desire as to fear nothing so much as that by any accident he should snatched from it.

"[35] Baron Johann von Eckersdorff, a Reformed nobleman from the Kingdom of Hungary[36] who was then on his grand tour, later recalled, "I happened to be in Glasgow the day Father Ogilvie was led forth to the gallows, and it is impossible for me to describe his lofty bearing in meeting death.

[38] An eyewitness later recalled, "A deep groan broke from all the spectators; and then, as if their tongues were loosened, they proclaimed their sentiments freely enough, openly declaring their horror and detestation at the unjust sentence they had just seen executed.

"[29] The customary beheading and quartering were omitted owing to undisguised popular sympathy, and Ogilvie's body was hurriedly buried in the Old Burial Ground of Glasgow High Kirk.

[1] For precisely the same reason, King James ordered the commutation of all death sentences of the remaining condemned Catholic prisoners to perpetual banishment from the realm.

During a subsequent conversation with the Marquess of Huntley, King James attempted to deny his own involvement in Ogilvie's torture and death and instead laid the blame solely at the feet of Archbishop John Spottiswoode.

[39] According to Baron Eckersdorff, "[Ogilvie's] rosary, thrown haphazard, struck me on the breast in such wise that I could have caught it in the palm of my hand; but there was such a rush of the Catholics to get hold of it that unless I wished to run the risk of being trodden down, I had to cast it from me.