The seventeenth century
When James I became the first English king of the Stuart dynasty, 
he was already James VI of Scotland, so that the crowns of these two 
countries were united.Puritans regarded the luxurious lifestyle of 
the king and his followers as immoral.Although their governments continued to be 
separate, their linguistic differences were lessened in this century.(Scots gradually became just ca dialect'.)
In the seventeenth century, the link between religion and politics 
became intense.This was the context in which, during the century, Parliament 
established its supremacy over the monarchy.However, the Scottish 
Protestant church adopted English rather than Scots bibles.They were also antiCatholic 
and suspicious of the apparent sympathy towards Catholicism of the 
Stuart monarchs.