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Popish Collection

Background imagePopish Collection: Titus Oates (1649 - 1705), convicted of fabricated the Popish Plot

Titus Oates (1649 - 1705), convicted of fabricated the Popish Plot, a supposed Catholic conspiracy to kill King Charles II

Background imagePopish Collection: Titus Oates (1649 - 1705), English perjurer, seen here in the pillory

Titus Oates (1649 - 1705), English perjurer, seen here in the pillory, a punishment for fabricating the Popish Plot

Background imagePopish Collection: Dr Titus Oates

Dr Titus Oates
(1649-1705). An English priest who fabricated the Popish Plot, a supposed Catholic conspiracy to kill Charles II. Date: 19th century

Background imagePopish Collection: Stephen Dugdale, Informe

Stephen Dugdale, Informe
STEPHEN DUGDALE - Informer during the Popish Plot, claiming knowledge of a Catholic conspiracy but providing dubious and inconsistent testimony. Date: 1640 - 1683

Background imagePopish Collection: Catholic Emancipation

Catholic Emancipation
A British battering Ram preparing the way for a Popish Bull - A satire on the pressure for Catholic emancipation, which led to an Act of Parliament in 1829

Background imagePopish Collection: William Fuller

William Fuller
WILLIAM FULLER Impostor associated with Titus Oates in the Popish Plot. Date: 1670 - 1717

Background imagePopish Collection: Stephen College - 2

Stephen College - 2
STEPHEN COLLEGE - k.a. The Protestant Joiner, involved in the Popish Plot affair; his vehement anti-Papal activities led to his being hanged and drawn for treason. Date: 1635 - 1681

Background imagePopish Collection: Stephen College - 1

Stephen College - 1
STEPHEN COLLEGE - k.a. The Protestant Joiner, involved in the Popish Plot affair; his vehement anti-Papal activities led to his being hanged and drawn for treason. Date: 1635 - 1681

Background imagePopish Collection: John Baron Belasyse

John Baron Belasyse
JOHN, BARON BELASYSE Prominent royalist, wrongly accused by Oates and others of being a party to the imaginary Popish Plot. Date: 1614 - 1689

Background imagePopish Collection: William Bedloe

William Bedloe
WILLIAM BEDLOE, described as the Discoverer of the Popish Plot, in fact an unscrupulous liar whose implausible claims were inconsistent with those of Titus Oates and others. Date: 1650 - 1680

Background imagePopish Collection: Miles Prance, Informer

Miles Prance, Informer
MILES PRANCE, Catholic goldsmith who found fame during the Popish Plot as an informer, claiming to reveal the murderers of Edmund Berry Godfrey : perjurer, impostor. Date: flourished 1678 - 1689

Background imagePopish Collection: Cartoon, End of the Irish Farce of Catholic Emancipation

Cartoon, End of the Irish Farce of Catholic Emancipation, by James Gillray. Showing a scene outside Heaven, with St Peter at the gate of Popish Supremacy and a crowd of Catholic priests and clergy

Background imagePopish Collection: Popish Plot Document

Popish Plot Document
Proclamation ordering a complete inquiry into the (supposed) Popish Plot against the late Charles II, in the belief that the sinister conspiracy might continue

Background imagePopish Collection: Titus Oates

Titus Oates
TITUS OATES anabaptist turned conformist turned papist turned conformist again, odious fomentor of imaginary Popish plot : with his autograph


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