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Titus Oates (15 September 1649 – 12/13 July 1705), also called Titus the Liar, was an English perjurer who fabricated the "Popish Plot", a supposed Catholicism==Early life== Titus Oates was born at Oakham in Rutland. His father Samuel, a graduate of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, was a minister who moved between the Church of England and the Baptists; he became a Baptist during the Puritan Revolution,〔 rejoining the established church at the Restoration and was rector of All Saints' Church at Hastings in Sussex (1666–74).〔Alan Marshall, ‘Oates, Titus (1649–1705)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004〕 Oates was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and other schools. At Cambridge University he entered Gonville and Caius College and then St John's College; a less than astute student, he was ejected from both colleges, regarded by his tutor as "a great dunce".〔〔 On 29 May 1670 he was ordained as a priest of the Church of England. He was vicar of the parish of Bobbing in Kent, 1673–74, and then curate to his father at All Saints', Hastings. During this time Oates was charged with perjury having accused a schoolmaster in Hastings of sodomy. Oates was put in jail, but escaped and fled to London.〔 In 1677 he was appointed as a chaplain of the ship ''Adventurer'' in the Royal Navy. He was soon accused of buggery which was a capital offence and spared only because of his clergyman's status.〔 After the navy, he joined the household of the Catholic Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk as an Anglican chaplain. On Ash Wednesday in 1677 he was received into the Catholic Church. Oddly, at the same time Oates agreed to co-author a series of anti-Catholic pamphlets with Israel Tonge, whom he had met through his father Samuel, who had once more reverted to the Baptist doctrine.〔Alan Marshall, ‘Tonge, Israel (1621–1680)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004〕 He is described by John Dryden in ''Absalom and Achitophel'' thus—〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Titus Oates」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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