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Titus Oates before the Privy Council, 1678 (1905). Oates fabricated the so-called Popish Plot, a Catholic conspiracy to murder King Charles II. At least 22 innocent men were executed before Oates` perjury was exposed and he was imprisoned. From Cassell's History of England, Vol. III, [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1905]