The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-11-18
THE FIRST APAIST
The Progenitor Of Modern Apaism
Was the Infamous Titus
Oates
HISTORY OF THE POPIsH PLOT.
Lord Maoaulay and the Scotch
Ohamberses Give the Story
OF the Conspi1 acy.

OF the COnsp1l acy.
There 10 so much resemblance between
tho history Of the infamous Titus Oates
and the A. p. A. movement. the former
explains so we'll the latter, throws so
much light upon it, and shows it so
truthfnlly in all it's odioue character that
we xive it to our readers. The sources
from which our information is derived
cannot be suspicious even to Protestants
a. We draw it from. Chambers Encyclo-
psedia and Macaulay, and give it textu.
ally.
The Encyclopedias says: "Iitus Oates
was the son Of ribbon weaver, who,
having first become an Anabaptist min
lister under Cromwell, took orders and a
beneice in the English church after the
restoration. Oates appears to have been
born about the year 1920 He was sent
to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he
took orders, aud received small living
from the Duke Of Norfolk. This posi-
tion, however, he forfeited, in conse-
quence of malicious prosecution, in
which he narrowly escaped conviction
for perjury; and having been afterwards
appointed to chaplaincy of one of the
Kings ship, he was expelled from it on
q charge still more disgraceful. In this
extremity he conformed to the Catholic
Church, and was admitted as scholar
of the Jesuits' college at Valladolid,
Spain, but was expelled for misconduct
after trial of few months. He vas
again received by the Jesuits, on his
earnest protestations of repentance, at
st. Omer, France, where he pr we'd as
mean and worthless as before, and he
was finally dismissed by them in the
early part OF 1878 He now, as mere
vagabond adventurer, set himself to live
by his wit, in the evil exercise of which
he devised, about this time, the atrocious
scheme with which his name is identi-
fed in history. just then great excite
ment and alarm pervaded the Protestant
party in England. 1t was we'll known
that Charles IL. was at heart Roman
Catholic; and his brother, the Duke of
York, afterward James II was An active
and avowed zealot on the same side. The
growing confidence of the Roman Catho-
lies was unconcealed; and, with or with
out reaeon, the cry so often since heard
arose and was everywhere e-echoed, that
the protestant religion was in danger
In this fevered state of general feeling,
Oates saw his opportunity, and dex
terously and boldly availed himself of
it,"
Maoaulay's vivid sketch Of Oates and
his work is as follows:
"One Titus Oates, a clergyman of the
church of England, had, by his disor-
derly life and heterodox doctrine, drawn
on himself the censure of his spiritual
superiors, had been compelled to quit
his benefice, and had ever since led an
infamous and vagrant life. He had once
profeseed himself Roman Catholic, and
passed some time on the continent in
English colleges of the Order of Jesus.
In those seminaries he had heard much
wild talk about the best means OF bring
ing England back to the true church.
From hints thus furnished he constructed
hideous romance, resembling rather
the dream Of sick man than any trans
action which ever took place in the real
world. The Pope, he said, had entrusted
the government Of England to the Je-
suits. The Jesuits had, by commissions
under the seal of their society, appointed
Roman Catholic noblemen and gentle
men to all the highest offices in church
and state. The Pspists had burned
down London once. They had tried to
burn it down again. They were at that
moment planning 9 scheme for setting
fire to all the shipping in the Thames.
They were to rise at signal and massa-
Gre all their Protestant neighbors. A
French army was at the same time to
land in Ireland. All the leading states
men and divines Of England were to be
murdered. Three or four schemes had
been formed for assassinating the King.
He was 10 be stabbed. He was to be
poisoned IN hn medicine. He was to be
shot with silver bullets. The public
I mind Mas 90 core md excitable that these
..s lsa.- s. .a:x :al II.