"A True Narrative of the Horrid Hellish Popish Plot" is a late seventeenth-century English broadside ballad telling the story of the contemporary anti-Catholic scare in England known as the Popish Plo
Second half of the lyrics with illustrations by Francis Barlow.
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The 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. Oates alleged that there was an e
A True Narrative of the Horrid Hellish Popish Plot
…Popish Plot" is a late seventeenth-century English broadside ballad telling the story of the contemporary anti-Catholic scare in England known as the Popish Plot. A True Narrative of the Horrid Hellish Popish Plot is also the title of an early picture-story and prototypical comic strip with speech balloons…
The execution of the five Jesuits
Titus Oates, perpetrator of the "Popish Plot"
Broadside, "The Solemn Mock Procession of the POPE, Cardinalls, Iesuits, Fryers etc: through ye City of London, November ye 17th. 1679."
Informer William Bedloe