Why did deeply Protestant Scotland join deeply Catholic Ireland in Jacobitism and fighting for the return of a Catholic king?

by And_did_those_feet

I understand the Irish support for Jacobitism on the grounds of support for a more tolerant Catholic king, but I do not understand Scottish support for it. Given that in the English Civil War the Scots were even more hardline Protestants than most Roundheads, how did this later turn into support for a revived Catholic Stuart line?

FunkyPlaid

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