Titus Oates (1649–1705) by Robert White, 1679 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Alan Marshall
Oates, Titus (1649–1705), informer, was born at Oakham, Rutland, a younger son of Samuel Oates (bap. 1614, d. 1683), Baptist preacher, and his wife, Lucy (d. in or after 1697), a midwife from Hastings. His father, son of a Church of England...