Fictitious conspiracy causing anti-Catholic hysteria affecting England, Scotland, and Ireland
Not to be confused with Gunpowder Plot.
The execution of the five Jesuits
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.[1] Oates alleged that there was an extensive Catholic conspiracy to assassinate Charles II, accusations that led to the executions of at least 22 men and precipitated the Exclusion Bill Crisis. During this tumultuous period, Oates weaved an intricate web of accusations, fueling public fears and paranoia. However, as time went on, the lack of substantial evidence and inconsistencies in Oates's testimony began to unravel the plot. Eventually, Oates himself was arrested and convicted for perjury, exposing the fabricated nature of the conspiracy.
The PopishPlot was a fictitious conspiracy invented by Titus Oates that between 1678 and 1681 gripped the kingdoms of England and Scotland in anti-Catholic...
September 1649 – 12/13 July 1705) was an English priest who fabricated the "PopishPlot", a supposed Catholic conspiracy to kill King Charles II. Titus Oates...
invented the plot or allowed it to continue when his agents had already infiltrated it, for the purposes of propaganda. The PopishPlot of 1678 sparked...
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by poison, on 17 September 1679. His name featured prominently in the PopishPlot fabricated by the notorious informer Titus Oates in England in 1678....
him to withdraw it. In 1679, Titus Oates's fabrication of a supposed PopishPlot sparked the Exclusion Crisis when it was revealed that Charles's brother...
The words Popery (adjective Popish) and Papism (adjective Papist, also used to refer to an individual) are mainly historical pejorative words in the English...
England. She was a special object of attack by the inventors of the PopishPlot. In 1678 the murder of Edmund Berry Godfrey was ascribed to her servants...
affiluation and by the Secret Treaty of Dover (1670). In 1678, during the PopishPlot, the Duke of York's secretary, Edward Colman, was named by Titus Oates...
"A Ballad upon the PopishPlot" is an early modern English broadside ballad about a fabricated conspiracy known as "The PopishPlot" that occurred between...
1678, falsely implicated in a fictitious plot against the King by Titus Oates. The plot, known as the PopishPlot, led to the Exclusionist movement, which...
The Main Plot was an alleged conspiracy of July 1603 by English courtiers to remove King James I from the English throne and to replace him with his cousin...
chairman of the House of Commons Committee of Secrecy investigating the PopishPlot. Another notable English shorthand system creator of the 17th century...
Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland and the last victim of the PopishPlot. He was beatified in 1920 and canonised in 1975, thus becoming the first...
Bedloe (20 April 1650 – 20 August 1680) was an English fraudster and PopishPlot informer. He was born at Chepstow in Monmouthshire; he was probably the...
to Roman Catholicism. In 1681, triggered by the opposition-invented PopishPlot, the Exclusion Bill was introduced in the House of Commons, which would...
the Civil war, Church of England doctrines, Acts of Parliament, the PopishPlot (see below), the Stuart Era, and Cromwell propaganda. In addition, pamphlets...
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and in particular the "Five Popish Lords" from the House of Lords, a change motivated largely by the alleged PopishPlot. The Lords deeply resented this...
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English conspirator, who became one of the principal informers in the PopishPlot. His violent death at the hands of the barrister Robert Francis was clearly...
"A True Narrative of the Horrid Hellish PopishPlot" is a late seventeenth-century English broadside ballad telling the story of the contemporary anti-Catholic...
Catholic conspiracies have taken many forms, including the 17th-century PopishPlot allegations, claims by persons such as William Blackstone that Catholics...
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