The Witch Trial and the Witch Trials

In 1534, the King of England, Henry VIII, grew tired of a church a thousand miles away in Rome telling him what to do. A Protestant Reformation swept through the region and before long, Catholicism was part of an old world order right alongside pagans. But many in Ireland and Scotland remained loyal to the Catholic Church. When a new king, James I, who was originally Scottish, took the throne a few decades later, one group in particular was targeted.