Anyone even suspected of being Catholic has…

Anyone even suspected of being Catholic has been driven out of London and forbidden to return within ten miles of the city.

Silk armor is produced for fashionable ladies and gentlemen.

Oates, for his part, has received a state apartment in Whitehall and an annual allowance of twelve hundred pounds.

He is not ready to stop, however, and had soon presented new allegations, claiming assassins intend to shoot the king with silver bullets so the wound would not heal.

The public invents their own stories, including a tale that the sound of digging had been heard near the House of Commons and rumors of a French invasion in the Isle of Purbeck.

The "purge" spreads to the countryside.

However, public opinion begins to turn against Oates.

Judge William Scroggs, having had at least fifteen innocent men executed, the last being Oliver Plunkett, Archbishop of Armagh, on July 1, 1681, begins to declare people innocent.

The King begins to devise countermeasures.