abstract:The Popish Plot was a fictitious conspiracy concocted by Titus Oates that between 1678 and 1681 gripped the Kingdoms of England and Scotland in anti-Catholic hysteria.Henrietta Heald, Chronicle of Britain.
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a supposed conspiracy (1678) to murder Charles II of England and replace him with his Catholic brother James: in reality a fabrication by the informer Titus Oates 天主教阴谋; 1678年，传说有要谋杀英国查理二世而以其天主教兄弟詹姆士取而代之的阴谋，实为告密者提图斯-欧慈编造
Furthermore, as a community theywould be blackened for the rest of the century, blamed for the Great Fire of London and unfairly fingered in the PopishPlotof 1678.