11 Facts About Popish Plot

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.

Fictitious Popish Plot must be understood against the background of the English Reformation and the subsequent development of a strong anti-Catholic sentiment among the mostly Protestant population of England.

Popish Plot's was a Catholic and returned the Church in England to union with the Holy See.

Popish Plot told Danby to keep the events secret so as not to put the idea of regicide into people's minds.

Popish Plot accused Sir George Wakeman and Edward Colman, the secretary to Mary of Modena Duchess of York, of planning the assassination.

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Popish Plot had been strangled and run through with his own sword.

Popish Plot testified that he had seen a number of contracts signed by the Superior General of the Jesuits.

Popish Plot remained unconvinced by Oates' accusations, but Parliament and public opinion forced him to order an investigation.

Popish Plot's trial, compared to the other Plot trials, was reasonably fair, but as in all cases of alleged treason at that date the absence of defence counsel was a fatal handicap, and while Oates' credit had been seriously damaged, the evidence of the principal prosecution witnesses, Turberville and Dugdale, struck even fair-minded observers like John Evelyn as being credible enough.

Popish Plot soon presented new allegations, claiming assassins intended to shoot the King with silver bullets so the wound would not heal.

The Popish Plot gained some credence in Ireland, where the two Catholic Archbishops, Plunkett and Talbot, were the principal victims, but not in Scotland.