Titus Oates
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Titus Oates was an English Anglican priest who fabricated the "Popish Plot", a supposed Catholic conspiracy to kill King Charles II.
Portrait by Robert White, 1679
Oates reveals the plot to the King; one of a set of playing cards depicting the Plot by Francis Barlow, c. 1679
Engraving of Oates in a pillory
Pillory
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The pillory is a device made of a wooden or metal framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, used during the medieval and renaissance periods for punishment by public hum
Titus Oates
…life". Oates was taken from his cell wearing a hat with the text "Titus Oates, convicted upon full evidence of two horrid perjuries" and put into the pillory at the gate of Westminster Hall (now New Palace Yard), where passers-by pelted him with eggs. The next day he was pilloried in London and the third day…
Daniel Defoe in the Pillory (Eyre Crowe, 1862)
Stone pillory from the 18th century preserved in situ in Mespelare, Belgium. It is decorated with the coat of arms of the Goubau family, who at the time were the lords of the village.
The pillory at Charing Cross in London, c. 1808