Popish Plot
Oates, Titus - 1649–1705, English conspirator. An Anglican priest whose whole career was marked with intrigue and scandal, he joined forces with one Israel Tonge to invent the story of the Popish Plot of 1678. Oates, who had been briefly a convert to Roman Catholicism, claimed that there was a Jesuit-guided plan to assassinate Charles II and to hasten the succession of the Catholic James Read More...
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A History of the Tory Party, 1640-1714 (Chap. 7 "The Popish Plot and the Royalist Reaction, 1678-85")
by Keith Feiling. 530 pgs.
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To Make a Martyr: The Popish Plot and Protestant Propaganda, in History Today
by Alan Marshall. 7 pgs.
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The Indomitable John Scott: Citizen of Long Island, 1632-1704 (Chap. XXXVII "The Popish Plot")
by Harold Hulme, Lilian T. Mowrer. 438 pgs.
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