Background
Titus Oates was born on September 15, 1649 at Oakham in Rutland.
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An Exact Discovery of the Mystery of Iniquity as It Is Now in Practice Amongst the Jesuits and Other Their Emissaries
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Titus Oates
also known as
Titus the Liar
Titus Oates, also called Titus the Liar, was an English perjurer who fabricated the "Popish Plot", a supposed Catholic conspiracy to kill King Charles II.
Education
Though he was expelled from the Merchant Tailors' School at the age of 16, he attended Cambridge University, leaving, as his tutor noted, because "he was a great dunce, ran into debt; and, being sent away for want of money, never took a degree. "
Career
He used his office to defame a local schoolmaster, but he was denounced as a perjurer and jailed; later he escaped. After being expelled from a brief naval chaplaincy, Oates went to London, again posing as a cleric, though it is questionable whether he was ever ordained.
He returned to England in 1678 with fictitious evidence that convinced gullible government officials of a plot to kill the king.
For 3 years, Oates, through the apparently Catholic-inspired murder of an associate, the inadvertent discovery of seditious letters, confessions wrung from intimidated witnesses, and the timidity of the king himself, was given plenary power by Parliament and had merely to accuse to convict.
He caused the execution of 35 People, including the Roman Catholic archbishop of Ireland. Oates's testimony was not discredited until the end of 1681, when it was finally realized that his evidence was hearsay and contradictory.
His power and large salary were gradually withdrawn, and when James II came to the throne in 1685, Oates was convicted of perjury, whipped, pilloried, and jailed. Though he was released after the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the rest of Oates's life was marked by lawsuits, debt, and fruitless intrigue and his entrance into, and expulsion from, the Baptist Church.
He died in London in July 1705. Oates exploited the traditional English fear of Roman Catholicism between 1678 and 1681, terrifying the government into giving him complete judicial power.
Achievements
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He 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.
Works
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The Devils Patriarck; Or, a Full and Impartial Account of the Notorious Life of This Present Pope of Rome, Innocent the 11th
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An Exact Discovery of the Mystery of Iniquity as It Is Now in Practice Amongst the Jesuits and Other Their Emissaries
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The Devils Patriarck; Or, a Full and Impartial Account of the Notorious Life of This Present Pope of Rome, Innocent the 11th
Religion
Nevertheless, by 1673 Oates had somehow managed to enter the Anglican clergy.
In 1676 he joined forces with a vehement anti-Catholic clergyman, Israel Tonge. Together they projected an elaborate plan to discredit Roman Catholicism as a treasonous international conspiracy. The two, taking advantage of the not altogether unfounded rumor that King Charles II planned to sponsor the legalization of the Roman Catholic faith, magnified it into a specific plot to destroy the Protestant Church-state constitution.
Oates, feigning conversion to Roman Catholicism for the purpose of gathering evidence, attended two Jesuit missionary schools on the Continent, being quickly expelled from both.
Views
His emotional appeal to large audiences is an early instance of the political manipulation of public opinion.
Connections
Rumours surfaced that Oates was to be married to a daughter of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury.
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Died
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Nationality
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Ethnicity
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Religion
Roman Catholic -
Political Party
Whig