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role in Popish Plot

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  In Titus Oates
  …new acquaintance, the fanatical anti-Jesuit Israel Tonge, urged him to profit by betraying Catholics to the government. Oates, therefore, set out to gather information about them and their activities. He joined the Roman Catholic church in March 1677, but before long he was expelled from seminaries at Valladolid in Spain…
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  In Popish Plot
  …by a fanatically anti-Catholic acquaintance, Israel Tonge, Oates informed the government of the imagined plot and eventually gained access to the Privy Council, where the king’s questioning showed Oates to be lying. But meanwhile, Oates also made a sworn deposition of his “evidence” (Sept. 28, 1678) to a Westminster justice…
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