FURTHER READING
When King James V died in 1542, he left behind him a precarious kingdom. In part, this was because his heir and successor, Mary I, was a six-day-old baby, setting the scene for vicious power-struggles among the prominent people of the kingdom. More generally, however, Scotland was becoming increasingly divided between two broad visions of the future: a pro-English one, involving some receptivity to the growing forces of the Protestant Reformation; and pro-French one, marked by strict loyalty to Roman Catholicism.