Popish Plot Popish Plot The Popish Plot was a fictitious conspiracy concocted by Titus Oates that between 1678 and 1681 gripped the Kingdoms of England and Scotland in anti-Catholic hysteria. 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. Eventually Oates's intricate web of accusations fell apart, leading to his arrest and conviction for perjury. The 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
A True Narrative of the Horrid Hellish Popish-Plot A True Narrative of the Horrid Hellish Popish-Plot A True Narrative of the Horrid Hellish Popish Plot is a seventeenth-century English broadside ballad telling the story of the contemporary anti-Catholic scare in England known as the Popish Plot. The narrator of the ballad begins by placing him-/herself firmly on the side of the anti-Catholics by declaring to tell how the Jesuit, Devil, and POPE did agree, Our STATE to destroy, and Religion so old. To murder our KING, A most Horrible Thing! (S)he then goes on to tell the murder of the knight Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, a member of