William Scroggs
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Sir William Scroggs was Lord Chief Justice of England from 1678 to 1681. He is best remembered for presiding over the Popish Plot trials, where he was accused of showing bias against the accused.
Sir William Scroggs
Memorial of Elizabeth Scroggs, Lincoln Cathedral
Popish Plot
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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
William Scroggs
…Sir William Scroggs (c. 1623 – 25 October 1683) was Lord Chief Justice of England from 1678 to 1681. He is best remembered for presiding over the Popish Plot trials, where he was accused of showing bias against the accused. Scroggs was the son of an Oxford landowner; the story of him being the son of a butcher…
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