Women carried loaded pistols in their muffs. In April 1679, Titus Oates said that James I had been murdered, that the Great Rebellion and the death of Charles I and been due to the Jesuits, and that the Duke of York had started the Great Fire. The plot finally ran out of steam in the early 1680's. He was unable to pay the fine, and in 1685 was pilloried, flogged, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Meanwhile, about 35 Catholics had been executed for their supposed connection with the plot and to this day, no one knows what really happened to Edmund Berry Godfrey.
Theories abound, everything from suicide made to look like murder to a random attack by a robber.
There is an interesting coincidence regarding the names of the three men hung for Godfrey's murder and the place where his body was found. In former times, Primrose Hill had been called Greenberry Hill.