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ABalladuponthePopishPlot is an early modern English broadside ballad about a fabricated conspiracy known as "ThePopishPlot" that occurred between 1678 and 1681 in the Kingdoms of England and Scotland, during a period of widespread social and cultural prejudice against Catholicism. The song records an indictment of thePlot—a crucial consequence of national religious conflict that arguably began with the English Reformation—in the form of theballad, one of the most time-honored and influential styles of popular music.
The Popish Plot; Victims of the 'Popish Plot' conspiracy; Popish plot; Oates's Plot; "Popish" plot; "Popish" Plot; Trial of the five Catholic lords; Five popish lords; Titus Oates's plot; Oates Plot; Oates' Plot; Plot of Titus Oates
ThePopishPlot was a fictitious conspiracy invented by Titus Oates that between 1678 and 1681 gripped the Kingdoms of England and Scotland in anti-Catholic hysteria. Oates alleged that there was an extensive Catholic conspiracy to assassinate Charles II, accusations that led to the executions of at least 22 men and precipitated the Exclusion Bill Crisis.
A True Narrative of the Horrid Hellish Popish-Plot
"A True Narrative of the Horrid Hellish PopishPlot" is a late seventeenth-century English broadside ballad telling the story of the contemporary anti-Catholic scare in England known as thePopishPlot.