Popish Plot

noun

1. an imaginary conspiracy against the crown of Great Britain on the part of English Roman Catholics, fabricated in 1678 by Titus Oates as a means of gaining power.

Popish Plot

noun

1. 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

Example Sentences

While “tumbling up and down in the world,” he records details about Oxford during the English Civil War, life in London at the time of the plague and after the Great Fire destroyed much of the city, the doings of the Royal Society’s natural philosophers and scientists, and the unfolding of the so-called Popish Plot to bring a Catholic to England’s throne.

From Washington Post

In the iniquitous Popish Plot he had no share, nor would he countenance the attempts to exclude James from the succession in favour of Monmouth.

From Project Gutenberg

The country was in a ferment over the alleged discovery of the Popish Plot, and George regarded the judicial murders then perpetrated with astonished disgust.

From Project Gutenberg

At a moment when the public mind was reduced to the most abject credulity by such events as these, the scoundrel Titus Oates appeared, declaring that the dread calamities which had afflicted England, and others then imminent, were only parts of an awful Popish Plot, which aimed at the destruction of the king and the restoration of the Catholic religion.

From Project Gutenberg

The broadsheets of that year, 1678, and of the troublous years following, even until William of Orange was seated on the throne of England, in 1690, have, we may almost say, but one topic—the Popish Plot.

From Project Gutenberg