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1649-1705. English conspirator. A priest, he
entered the Jesuit colleges at Valladolid,
Spain, and St Omer, France, as a spy in
1677-78, and on his return to England
announced he had discovered a `Popish Plot'
to murder Charles II and re-establish
Catholicism. Although this story was almost
entirely false, many innocent Roman Catholics
were executed during 1678-80 on Oates's
evidence. In 1685 he was flogged, pilloried,
and imprisoned for perjury. He was pardoned
and granted a pension after the revolution of
1688.