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The cellars under the Houses of Parliament continued to be leased out to private individuals until 1678, when news of the Popish Plot broke.
* 1649 – Titus Oates, English minister, fabricated the Popish Plot ( d. 1705 )
* September 6 – Titus Oates begins to present allegations of the Popish Plot, a Catholic conspiracy to assassinate king Charles II of England.
The Whigs, under Lord Shaftesbury's leadership, wished to exclude the Duke of York ( who later became King James II ) from the throne due to his personal character, his Catholicism, his favouring of monarchical absolutism, his connections to France and the effects of the Popish Plot.
Anne's father and stepmother retired to Brussels in March 1679 in the wake of anti-Catholic hysteria fed by the Popish Plot, and Anne visited them from the end of August.
In 1679, Titus Oates's revelations of a supposed " Popish Plot " sparked the Exclusion Crisis when it was revealed that Charles's brother and heir ( James, Duke of York ) was a Roman Catholic.
While surviving works of these periods such as Francis Barlow's A True Narrative of the Horrid Hellish Popish Plot ( c. 1682 ) as well as The Punishments of Lemuel Gulliver and A Rake's Progress by William Hogarth ( 1726 ), can be seen to establish a narrative over a number of images, it wasn't until the 19th century that the elements of such works began to crystallise into the comic strip.
The iniquities of the Popish Plot ( Titus Oates ' fabricated conspiracy aimed at excluding the Catholic Duke of York from the English accession ), meant temporary banishment for James – an exile that would last nearly three years.
When Churchill returned to England, the Popish Plot resulted in a temporary three year banishment for James Stuart, Duke of York.
There was a swing away from comedy to serious political drama, reflecting preoccupations and divisions following on the Popish Plot ( 1678 ) and the Exclusion Crisis ( 1682 ).
When the Duke of York went into self-imposed exile to Scotland as a result of the furore surrounding the Popish Plot, John and Sarah accompanied him, and Charles II rewarded John's loyalty by creating him Baron Churchill of Eyemouth in Scotland, Sarah thus becoming Lady Churchill.
Category: People of the Popish Plot
It was published over the years of the Popish Plot ( 1678 – 1681 ) and ten years before the Glorious Revolution of 1688, and it shows the influence of John Foxe's Acts and Monuments.
The effect of this was to exclude Catholics from both houses, and in particular the " Five Popish Lords " from the House of Lords, a change motivated largely by the alleged Popish Plot.
English governments continued to fear Popish Plot.
Although his book was written before the September 11 attacks, John Coffey explicitly compares the English fear of a Popish Plot with the contemporary Islamophobia in the Western world.
Writing at the time of Popish Plot, Crowne, who was a devout royalist, used his adaptation to warn about the danger of allowing England to descend into another civil war, which would be the case should the Whig party rise to power.
Writing at the time of Popish Plot, Crowne, who was a devout royalist, used his adaptation to warn about the danger of allowing England to descend into another civil war, which would be the case should the Whig party rise to power.
He took an active part in prosecuting those implicated in the " Popish Plot ", and accused the lord chief justice ( Sir William Scroggs ) in his own court while on circuit of favouring the Roman Catholics.
He showed moderation in the Popish Plot, and on the question of the exclusion followed Halifax rather than Shaftesbury.
In 1679 Usk was the site of the martyrdom of St David Lewis, who was hanged for his alleged part in the fictitious Popish Plot conspiracy of Titus Oates.
She was the special object of attack by the inventors of the Popish Plot.

Popish and 1678
As one of the highest-ranking Catholics in the country, Catherine was an obvious target for Protestant extremists, and it was hardly surprising that the Popish Plot of 1678 would directly threaten her position.
This humiliating conclusion to the king's war policy dragged the political reputation of the King and Danby to a low point, making them vulnerable when the Popish Plot erupted in August and September 1678.
When Titus Oates began his " revelations " in 1678, Sacheverell was among those who most firmly believed in the existence of a Popish Plot.
In 1678 the university registers which had been in Wood's custody for eighteen years were removed, as it was feared that he would be implicated in the Popish Plot.
Titus Oates ( 1649-1705 ), whose accusations in autumn 1678 that there was a Popish Plot to murder the king and massacre English Protestants, set off a wave of anti-Catholic hysteria.
In August and September 1678, Titus Oates made accusations that there was a Popish Plot to assassinate the king, overthrow the government, and massacre English Protestants.
However, when Parliament re-convened on 21 October 1678, Oates had not yet been discredited and the Popish Plot was the major topic of concern.
In 1678 he took an active part in the investigation of the " Popish Plot ," to which he appears to have given excessive credence, but opposed the bill that was passed on 30 October 1678, to exclude Roman Catholics from the House of Lords.
The poem is an allegory that uses the story of the rebellion of Absalom against King David as the basis for discussion of the background to the Monmouth Rebellion ( 1685 ), the Popish Plot ( 1678 ) and the Exclusion Crisis.
The Popish Plot was a fictitious conspiracy concocted by Titus Oates that gripped Great Britain ( then governed by the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland ) in Anti-Catholic hysteria between 1678 and 1681.
The fictitious Popish Plot was exacerbated by many historical events in the sixteenth century and was only believed because circumstances before 1678 had increased anti-Catholic sentiment among the mostly Protestant population of England.
In January 1678, he took his seat in the House of Lords, but in August the first development of the Popish Plot was followed by an Act for disabling Catholics from sitting in either house of Parliament.
She contrived to escape uninjured during the crisis of the " Popish Plot " in 1678: she found an unexpected ally in Queen Catherine, who was grateful for the kindness and consideration which Louise had always shown her.
His secretary, Edward Colman, had been named by Titus Oates during the Popish Plot ( 1678 ) as a conspirator to subvert the kingdom.
He became a member of the Privy Council in 1674, and attended the crucial meeting in 1678 when Titus Oates first revealed his fabricated Popish Plot.
His name featured prominently in the Popish Plot fabricated by Titus Oates in 1678.
Boscobel featured prominently in the Popish Plot: the informer Stephen Dugdale accused the guests who witnessed the Jesuit John Gavan taking his final vows there in 1678 of plotting treason, and several of them, including Gavan himself, were executed or imprisoned.
In 1678 Godfrey became involved with the schemes of Titus Oates when Oates invented the Popish Plot and began an anti-Catholic campaign.
He is first mentioned in the Proceedings of the Old Bailey for January 14, 1676, although no printed notice of the new hangman occurred until 2 December 1678, when a broadside appeared called The Plotters Ballad, being Jack Ketch's incomparable Receipt for the Cure of Traytorous Recusants and Wholesome Physick for a Popish Contagion.
In 1678 Titus Oates and his associates announced that Arundell was a chief mover in the Popish Plot against Charles II, which they professed to have discovered ; it was a complete fabrication.

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