- Title Pages
- For my parents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 ‘[T]aking up <i>Plots</i> upon <i>Trust’:</i><sup>1</sup> Titus Oates, Roger L’Estrange, and Popular Polemic
- Chapter 2 ‘[W]ill you have your <i>Throats cut</i> ere you will believe?’:<sup>1</sup> Popish Plot(s)
- Chapter 3 ‘Tis the Press that has made ‘um Mad’:<sup>1</sup> Publishing the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis
- Chapter 4 ‘A Popish priest is a certain seducer’:<sup>1</sup> Catholics and Anti-Catholicism
- Chapter 5 ‘Hell, and Rome…have long been confederate against us’:<sup>1</sup> Jesuits and Protestantism
- Chapter 6 ‘The Subduing of a Pestilent Heresy’:<sup>1</sup> Edward Coleman’s Letters
- Chapter 7 ‘A Matter too hot…to be Handled’:<sup>1</sup> The Death of Edmund Berry Godfrey
- Chapter 8 ‘A Few Words among Many, about the Touchy Point of Succession’:<sup>1</sup> The Duke of York and the Exclusion Crisis
- Chapter 9 ‘Have a Care of perverted Authorities’:<sup>1</sup> Parliament, Partisanship, and the Earl of Shaftesbury
- Chapter 10 ‘After-Birth-Inscriptions’:<sup>1</sup> Historical Disputes and the Great Fire of London
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 Chronology of the main events mentioned in the text between August 1678 and June 1679
- Appendix 2 The Organization of the English Province of the Society of Jesus (1678–85)*
- Appendix 3 The Test Acts*
- Appendix 4
- Appendix 5 The Oath to be sworn by subscribers to the Protestant ‘Association’*
- Bibliography
- Index
‘[T]aking up Plots upon Trust’:1 Titus Oates, Roger L’Estrange, and Popular Polemic
‘[T]aking up Plots upon Trust’:1 Titus Oates, Roger L’Estrange, and Popular Polemic
- Chapter:
- (p.19) Chapter 1 ‘[T]aking up Plots upon Trust’:1 Titus Oates, Roger L’Estrange, and Popular Polemic
- Source:
- ‘The Horrid Popish Plot’
- Author(s):
Peter Hinds
- Publisher:
- British Academy
This chapter discusses an introduction to Titus Oates and Roger L'Estrange. It provides contexts for their behaviour and actions in the 1670s and 1680s. The author uses L'Estrange as an observer and critic of the times through which he lived, as well as a narrative anchor to some degree. This helps in making sense of the comment on the political events during the period. Political satire during this period is also discussed.
Keywords: Titus Oates, narrative anchor, political events, political satire
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- Title Pages
- For my parents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 ‘[T]aking up <i>Plots</i> upon <i>Trust’:</i><sup>1</sup> Titus Oates, Roger L’Estrange, and Popular Polemic
- Chapter 2 ‘[W]ill you have your <i>Throats cut</i> ere you will believe?’:<sup>1</sup> Popish Plot(s)
- Chapter 3 ‘Tis the Press that has made ‘um Mad’:<sup>1</sup> Publishing the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis
- Chapter 4 ‘A Popish priest is a certain seducer’:<sup>1</sup> Catholics and Anti-Catholicism
- Chapter 5 ‘Hell, and Rome…have long been confederate against us’:<sup>1</sup> Jesuits and Protestantism
- Chapter 6 ‘The Subduing of a Pestilent Heresy’:<sup>1</sup> Edward Coleman’s Letters
- Chapter 7 ‘A Matter too hot…to be Handled’:<sup>1</sup> The Death of Edmund Berry Godfrey
- Chapter 8 ‘A Few Words among Many, about the Touchy Point of Succession’:<sup>1</sup> The Duke of York and the Exclusion Crisis
- Chapter 9 ‘Have a Care of perverted Authorities’:<sup>1</sup> Parliament, Partisanship, and the Earl of Shaftesbury
- Chapter 10 ‘After-Birth-Inscriptions’:<sup>1</sup> Historical Disputes and the Great Fire of London
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 Chronology of the main events mentioned in the text between August 1678 and June 1679
- Appendix 2 The Organization of the English Province of the Society of Jesus (1678–85)*
- Appendix 3 The Test Acts*
- Appendix 4
- Appendix 5 The Oath to be sworn by subscribers to the Protestant ‘Association’*
- Bibliography
- Index