'Sr E.B. Godfree takeing Dr Oates his depositions' (Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey; Titus Oates) Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Sr E.B. Godfree takeing Dr Oates his depositions' (Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey; Titus Oates) NPG D23012(l)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

after Francis Barlow

Magistrate; in 1678 Titus Oates delivered into his hands the tale of a 'Popish Plot', and soon after Godfrey was found murdered in a ditch near Hampstead; the murder was blamed on Roman Catholic priests, and anti-Papist feeling in the country reached fever-pitch; three men were hanged for Godfrey's murder on perjured evidence.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.

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