Oates, Titus

Oates, Titus ( 1649 – 1705 )
English clergyman and conspirator. He is remembered as the fabricator of the Popish Plot , a fictitious Jesuit plot that supposedly involved a plan to kill Charles II , massacre Protestants, and put the Catholic Duke of York on the English throne. Convicted of perjury in 1685 , Oates was imprisoned in the same year, but was subsequently released and granted a pension.