'Testis Ovat', Titus Oates in the pillory clifford's Inn Canadian-born American film actress

Canadian-born American film actress

(1768-1848)

October 1844

from a unique drawing in Pepys' collection in Magdalen College

'Testis Ovat', Titus Oates in the pillory clifford's Inn Canadian-born American film actress'Testis Ovat', Titus Oates in the pillory, 17th century (c1905). Testis Ovat is an anagram of Oates' name. An Anglican priest, he made up the story of the Popish Plot of 1678, which was a plot against the government. He was condemned by Judge Jeffreys to imprisonment for life. In addition it was ordered that he would stand annually in the pillory at particular spots, and every May, to be flogged from Aldgate to Newgate. Under William III he was