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Titus Oates (15 September 1649 – 12/13 July 1705) was an English priest who fabricated the "Popish Plot", a supposed Catholic conspiracy to kill King Charles II.
Titus Oates was a renegade Anglican priest who fabricated the Popish Plot of 1678. Oates’s allegations that Roman Catholics were plotting to seize power caused a reign of terror in London and strengthened the anti-Catholic Whig Party.
Lawrence Edward Grace "Titus" Oates (17 March 1880 – 17 March 1912) was a British army officer, and later an Antarctic explorer, who died from hypothermia during the Terra Nova Expedition when he walked from his tent into a blizzard.
May 14, 2021 · Titus Oates and the Popish Plot. This English priest was the man responsible for fabricating the story of a Catholic conspiracy to kill King Charles II which had enormous ramifications and lead to the loss of life of many innocent Jesuits…. Jessica Brain. 11 min read.
Jul 7, 2005 · Deeply dislikable, ugly, foul-mouthed, unsuccessful and painfully poor, he seems by this time to have been bent on revenge on the world that had rejected him, and he came back to England with the tale of a sensational conspiracy.
Sep 26, 2016 · When Titus Oates couldn't discover the great conspiracy he was sure existed, he fabricated it instead. And dozens of people died.
The Popish Plot was a fictitious conspiracy invented by Titus Oates that between 1678 and 1681 gripped the kingdoms of England and Scotland in anti-Catholic hysteria.
Jun 8, 2018 · The English political and religious demagogue Titus Oates (1649-1705) was the chief fabricator of the Popish Plot, a spurious plan of 1678 supposedly hatched by the Jesuits to assassinate King Charles II and to enthrone his Roman Catholic brother, James.
Jul 9, 2012 · How the famous last words of Antarctic explorer Capt Lawrence 'Titus' Oates still set an example for the soldiers of his regiment.
These two men were significant adversaries throughout the late 1670s and 1680s—Titus Oates was the main proponent of the plot and Roger L’Estrange a forthright debunker—and they carried on their dispute both privately and very publicly (and very prolifically) in print.
