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# Titus Oates invented a Popish plot against Charles II and was convicted of perjury
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/vspominaia-titusa-outsa-angliiskogo-zagovorshchika-i-prokhodimtsa-xvii-veka-nelzia-ne-zadumatsia-o-nashikh-sovremennikakh-vpisavshikh-svoi-merzotnye-deianiia-v-knigu-podonkov-vsekh-vrem/
- Published: 2020-05-25T13:02:12.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:00:25.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: London, Monarchies, Observations, Mores, Society, People

Recalling Titus Oates, the English conspirator and scoundrel of the seventeenth century, one cannot help thinking of our own contemporaries, who have inscribed their loathsome deeds in the book of the scum of all ages. Oates is known for having invented a certain Popish Plot to murder King Charles II. Using forged letters and perjured testimony, he managed to convince the king and his circle that Catholic agents were preparing an attempt on his life. After this, more or less, a veritable hysteria began: Catholics were once again persecuted, arrested and even executed, which is to say, for crimes they had not committed and of which they had not even been aware. Fortunately, before long the plot was exposed, and Oates was arrested for inciting rebellion and put on trial. The swindler's punishment was an enormous fine and imprisonment. A few years later he was convicted a second time, for perjury: for two days he stood bound to the pillory and was pelted with eggs, then he was dragged through the city tied to a cart and flogged, flogged to death, yet he did not die, and spent another three years in prison.

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