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English conspirator who claimed that there was a Jesuit plot to assassinate Charles II (1649-1705)

Titus Oates [Titus Oates]

(1649–1705) an English Protestant priest. He wanted people to turn against the ↑Roman Catholics, so he invented the ↑Popish Plot of 1678, a story that the Catholics were planning to kill King ↑Charles II and make his brother James king. Oates was regarded as a ↑hero, and many people were put to death because of him. Seven years later he was found guilty of lying and sent to prison.