qtd. in
Lytton, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, 1994, p. vi - xxxvi.
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Titus Oates
Standard Name: Oates, Titus
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Lucy Herbert | Lucy's father, William Herbert
, owned estates in Wales and the Welsh marches, although much of the family's large properties had been forfeited after they fought for the monarchy in the English Civil War... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Winifred Maxwell Countess of Nithsdale | Winifred's father, William Herbert
, was a major land-owner in the Welsh marches and Wales proper, a convinced and hereditary monarchist, as active in government as his Catholic
religion allowed, a courtier and a soldier... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Ephelia | The royal licence indicates that the gentlewoman attribution must have been accurate.The date belongs to the height of the plot: that is, the anti-Catholic furore that followed the murder of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey |
| Textual Features | Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton | In it she used public humiliation in an attempt to persuade her husband
to increase her allowance. She denounced him as a literary Cagliostro
, political Titus Oates
and marital Henry the Eighth— |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Aphra Behn | This hilarious comedy is set in Rome, with a conspicuously stupid, lustful, and venial puritan
clergyman guyed as Tickletext, in transparent allusion to Titus Oates
and the Popish Plot. The three heroines all... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Wentworth | Then follow a number of short, dated passages in prose and verse, beginning with a few from 1677 and 1678. The prophetic refrain Woe to England is heard again. Wentworth, Anne. The Revelation of Jesus Christ. 1679. 2 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Emma Robinson | The highly involved plot of this novel brought together a number of high-profile historical London figures to surround the hero and heroine of its love-story: the Merry Monarch
himself, his lower-class mistress Nell Gwyn
... |
| Violence | Elinor James | In 1702 EJ
(who had already suffered a fine and imprisonment for her literary-political activities) had a physical confrontation with Titus Oates
, famous for his informing or bearing of false witness against Catholics in... |
Timeline
12 August 1678: Titus Oates laid his allegations of a Popish...
National or international item
12 August 1678
Titus Oates
laid his allegations of a Popish plot against the crown and government of England: this triggered immediate panic and the prolonged Exclusion Crisis, an attempt to bar the Catholic Duke of York
22 May 1685: Titus Oates, the informer in the alleged...
National or international item
22 May 1685
Titus Oates
, the informer in the alleged Popish Plot, was whipped through the London streets at a cart's tail from Newgate Prison
, where he was incarcerated, to Tyburn.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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