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Titus Oates (1649–1705) was a clergyman who invented the "Popish plot".

Oates was born in Oakham, Rutland, and attended Caius College, Cambridge, where he gained a reputation for stupidity and homosexuality.^[1] He transferred to St John’s College in 1669, but left without a degree. He became vicar of Bobbing in Kent, but was charged with perjury after accusing a schoolmaster in Hastings of sodomy. Oates was put in jail, but escaped and fled to London. In 1677 he was himself appointed as a chaplain of the ship Adventurer in the English navy. He was soon accused of buggery, which was a capital offence, and spared only because of his clergyman's status.

References

↑ http://blogs.dickinson.edu/tellmewhy/2011/10/08/titus-oates-and-the-papist-plot-of-1678/

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 '''Titus Oates''' (1649–1705) was a clergyman who invented the "Popish plot".
-Oates attended both [[Oxford]] and [[Cambridge]] universities, but was expelled from both. He became vicar of Bobbing in Kent, but was charged with perjury after accusing a schoolmaster in Hastings of [[sodomy]]. Oates was put in jail, but escaped and fled to London. In 1677 he was himself appointed as a chaplain of the ship ''Adventurer'' in the English navy. He was soon accused of [[buggery]], which was a capital offence, and spared only because of his clergyman's status.
+Oates was born in Oakham, [[Rutland]], and attended Caius College, [[Cambridge]], where he gained a reputation for stupidity and homosexuality.<ref>http://blogs.dickinson.edu/tellmewhy/2011/10/08/titus-oates-and-the-papist-plot-of-1678/</ref> He transferred to St John’s College in 1669, but left without a degree. He became vicar of Bobbing in Kent, but was charged with perjury after accusing a schoolmaster in Hastings of [[sodomy]]. Oates was put in jail, but escaped and fled to London. In 1677 he was himself appointed as a chaplain of the ship ''Adventurer'' in the English navy. He was soon accused of [[buggery]], which was a capital offence, and spared only because of his clergyman's status.
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