Oates, told on August 31, 1681, to…

Oates, told on August 31, 1681, to leave his apartments in Whitehall, remains undeterred and denounces the King, the Duke of York, and just about anyone he regards as an opponent.

He is arrested for sedition, sentenced to a fine of one hundred thousand pounds and thrown into prison.

When James II accedes to the throne in 1685 he will have Oates retried for perjury and sentenced to annual pillory, loss of clerical dress, and imprisonment for life.

Oates will spent the next three years in prison.

At the accession of William of Orange and Mary in 1688, he will be pardoned and granted a pension of five pounds a week but his reputation will not significantly recover.

The pension will be suspended, but in 1698 will be restored and increased to three hundred pounds a year until his death on July 12 or 13, 1705.