Talk:Titus Oates

message: I just "de-linked" Edward Coleman's name because the link obviously goes to a different Edward Coleman, one who lived until the 1830s in New York. Amity150 05:34, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Link error

message: Guy Fawkes died in 1606. What is his relationship to the event On November 5, 1678? --87.185.67.217 23:25, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guy Fawkes 

message: There seems to be a conflict here as the article says "a provision for the prohibition on 'cruel or unusual punishment' was inserted because of public outrage at the treatment of Oates" yet earlier in the article it says he was arrested in 1681 and given a harsher sentence under James II who didn't begin his reign until 1685. Could someone who knows the facts please clarify? -- Kiore (talk) 04:25, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Habeas Corpus Act 1679? 

message: Pepys mentions a "Captain Oates, a great discoverer" in relation to an alleged Catholic plot, which appears to have been a set-up. This is footnoted as "Titus Oates". But this is in 1662, and Oates was only 13. Can anyone explain?--206.165.217.125 (talk) 20:22, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Samuel Pepys

message: Shouldn't the books written by Titus Oates be listed?70.29.76.32 (talk) 22:41, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Bibliography

message: As initially stated, it was at least inaccurate [there is rarely a single cause for any law]. I began to rewrite this, but then simply moved it here for lack of source. It's unclear to me that there is any truth to it other than a coincidence of timing.  Many other cruel punishments were carried out in that day [often involving death]. – SJ + 09:41, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed for lack of source 

message: It is possible to read the whole of this article, and not see what his motives were for fabricating the plot in the first place. Also why did he receive a state apartment in Whitehall and an annual allowance of £1,200 after being released from jail? Valetude (talk) 21:54, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification of basics 

message: What is the source of the portrait used to illustrate this article? I did some searching to try and track down its date, attribution and current location but found nothing. All the pictures of Oates that are out there seem to be contemporary prints.
We really need to know more about the portrait. and we need to have a cited reference that the sitter actually is Titus Oates. At the moment, all I know about it is that a photo of it was uploaded by Magnus Manske in 2004 and it's included in the category Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. So possibly they own it, but possibly somebody stuck the image in that category because Oates was a student there.
At the momet, it theoretically could be anybody.Catsmeat (talk) 09:20, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Portrait

message: So Oakes was "a perjurer"? That's the whole of it, his job title, his identity, everything? Seems to me that he must have had some other position in life besides lying under oath. Why not "a clergyman who is best known as a perjurer" or something more neutral like that? AnnaGoFast (talk) 07:18, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  A professional perjurer?