Edmund Berry Godfrey
Videos
Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey was an English magistrate whose mysterious death caused anti-Catholic uproar in England. Contemporary documents also spell the name Edmundbury Godfrey.
A print depicting the murder of Godfrey
Godfrey coat of arms
Contemporary broadsheet with the headline "Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey's Murder Made Visible"
Anti-papist pipe tamper with the head of the pope inscribed with "The church subverted takes on the face of the Devil" and Edmund Godfrey with "E(dmundbury) Godfrey by his death re-established the state", 1678.
Titus Oates
Videos
Titus Oates was an English Anglican priest who fabricated the "Popish Plot", a supposed Catholic conspiracy to kill King Charles II.
Edmund Berry Godfrey
…Club was in the Swan Tavern in King Street, Hammersmith. This was owned by Sir Edmund Godfrey, who left it in his will. It has been said that after Titus Oates had left his deposition with Godfrey, Godfrey warned one of the intended scapegoats, Edward Colman, who was later hanged, drawn and quartered, and who…
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