- The
words Popery (adjective
Popish) and
Papism (adjective Papist, also used to
refer to an individual) are
mainly historical pejorative words in the English...
- The
Popish Plot was a
fictitious conspiracy invented by
Titus Oates that
between 1678 and 1681
gripped the
kingdoms of
England and
Scotland in anti-Catholic...
-
Popish soap was a
derisive name
applied to soap
manufactured under a
patent granted by
Charles I.
Because the
board of the
manufacturing company included...
-
William Bedloe (20
April 1650 – 20
August 1680) was an
English fraudster and
Popish Plot informer. He was born at
Chepstow in Monmouthshire; he was probably...
- wine,
while some
reformers complained about the
retention of too many "
popish" elements,
including vestiges of
sacrificial rites at communion. Many senior...
- houses, and in
particular the "Five
Popish Lords" from the
House of Lords, a
change motivated largely by the
alleged Popish Plot. The
Lords deeply resented...
-
arbitrary power by
raising an army on
pretense of a war, and that he was '
popishly affected' and had
concealed the plot." Over the
following months Danby...
- Pope Joan,
Plainly Proving Out of the
Printed Copies, and
Manscriptes of
Popish Writers and Others, That a
Woman called Joan, Was
Really Pope of Rome, and...
- situation,
including events such as the
Monmouth Rebellion (1685), the
Popish Plot (1678) and the
Exclusion Crisis. 1893 Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle may have...
- An Act for
registering the
Popish Clergy) was an act of the
Parliament of
Ireland p****ed in 1704,
which required all "
Popish" (Roman Catholic) priests...
