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Date 1678

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Titus Oates in the pillory
Titus Oates
English priest
Sir Edmund Godfrey, chalk drawing by an unknown artist, c. 1678; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Edmund Godfrey
English magistrate
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Sir William Scroggs
English chief justice
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Thomas Dangerfield
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