Popish Plot - Gallery of Playing Cards

Gallery of Playing Cards

  • informer William Bedloe

  • Titus Oates uncovers plot

  • Magistrate Edmund Berry Godfrey with Oates

  • William Brooks, Alderman of Dublin

  • Thomas Pickering, Benedictine monk and victim of the Popish Plot

  • Nathaniel Reading in Pillory

  • Edward Colman a victim of Oates's plot

  • The execution of the five Jesuits

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