Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Dr Oates receives letters from ye Fathers to carry beyond Sea' (Titus Oates) NPG D23012(i)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

after Francis Barlow

Oates was an opportunist who failed to make a career in the clergy. He made an insincere conversion to Catholicism and was briefly admitted into a Jesuit college. His experience there was used to give a veneer of plausibility to his fabricated Popish Plot to kill the king. His accusations caused panic in England and led to the persecution of Roman Catholics and the deaths of thirty-five innocent men. When the truth emerged, he was prosecuted for perjury and sentenced to be flogged, pilloried... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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