Titus Oates' Plot
The uneasy tolerance within which Father Kemble had operated was shattered by Titus Oates' plot in 1678.
The events leading up to the arrest of Father Kemble need to be seen against the backdrop of the "Popish Plot". Titus Oates was a perjurer who concocted a plot in which the Anglican King Charles the Second would be assassinated and his Catholic brother (later, King James the Second) installed as king in his place.
When Oates' story was examined in detail the whole fraud was exposed, but by then the damage had been done.Among the many Catholics caught up in the frenzy was Father John Kemble.
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