Robert Southwell (diplomat)
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Sir Robert Southwell FRS was an Anglo-Irish politician and diplomat. He was Secretary of State for Ireland and President of the Royal Society from 1690.
Portrait by Godfrey Kneller
Robert Southwell
Arms of Sir Robert Southwell as depicted on a chart of the Bristol Channel dedicated to him by Grenvile Collins, c. 1693
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