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Titus Oates, D.D., The first Discoverer of the Plot, 1813. In 1677, English conspirator and Anglican priest Titus Oates (1649-1705) fabricated the "Popish Plot", a supposed Catholic conspiracy to kill King Charles II. He was condemned by Judge Jeffreys to imprisonment for life. In addition it was ordered that he would stand annually in the pillory at particular spots, and every May, to be flogged from Aldgate to Newgate. Under William III he was released and pensioned. From "Portraits, memoirs, and characters of remarkable persons, from the reign of King Edward the third, to the revolution, etc".