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Bolron, Robert (fl. 1665–1682), informer and perjurer  

Richard L. Greaves

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Bolron, Robert (fl. 1665–1682), informer and perjurer, was born in Newcastle upon Tyne. Apprenticed to a jeweller in London, he left after a year to become a foot soldier at Tynemouth Castle. During the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665–7) he served on a frigate. In 1674 ...

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Dangerfield, Thomas (1654–1685), informer  

Alan Marshall

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Dangerfield, Thomas (1654–1685), informer, was born in the parish of Holy Cross, Waltham, Essex, on 7 July 1654, the son of Thomas Dangerfield (d. 1680) and his wife, Apollina. His father was apparently an honest gentleman of Cromwellian sympathies but, according to a hostile account of his early years, ...

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Dugdale, Stephen (d. 1683), informer  

Alan Marshall

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Dugdale, Stephen (d. 1683), informer, may have come from a minor gentry family of Staffordshire, but his parentage is unknown. He later claimed that as a young man he was converted to Roman Catholicism by a priest named Knight, and was in his care until ...

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Ivie, Edward (d. 1698), informer and coiner  

Tim Wales

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25 May 2006

Ivie, Edward (d. 1698), informer and coiner, was the youngest son of Thomas Ivie of Wincanton, Somerset, where his father and elder brother served as parish officers. His uncle was the puritan activist and civic reformer John Ivie of Salisbury, who made his view of ...

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Jackson, William [pseud. Scrutineer] (1737?–1795), journalist and spy  

Hannah Barker

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Jackson, William [pseud. Scrutineer] (1737?–1795), journalist and spy, was born in Dublin, the son of an officer in the prerogative court. After studying at Oxford he was ordained and he moved to London, where he acted as a curate at St Mary-le-Strand...

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Marsh, Walter (bap. 1560, d. 1595), spy and protestant martyr  

Richard S. Peterson

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Marsh, Walter (bap. 1560, d. 1595), spy and protestant martyr, was baptized on 17 October 1560 at St Stephen, Coleman Street, London, the third or fourth of the four children of John Marsh (b. before 1516, d. 1579), MP, mercer, and governor of the ...

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Oates, Titus (1649–1705)  

Maker: Robert White

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004
Titus Oates (1649–1705) by Robert White, 1679 © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Oates, Titus (1649–1705), informer  

Alan Marshall

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

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...

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Porter, George [known as Captain Porter] (c. 1659–1728), Jacobite conspirator and informer  

Paul Hopkins

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Porter, George [known as Captain Porter] (c. 1659–1728), Jacobite conspirator and informer, was probably born in London, the only son of the dramatist Thomas Porter (1636–1680) by his second, legal, marriage to his first wife Anne Blount (c.1637–1659). His paternal grandfather was the courtier ...

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Scott, John (1632?–1704), adventurer and spy  

Alan Marshall

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Scott, John (1632?–1704), adventurer and spy, may have been born at Ashford, Kent, in 1632, the son of a royalist colonel, John Scott, but his origins and early life are uncertain. According to his own later account, having committed some misdemeanours against parliamentary soldiers ...

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Théveneau de Morande, Charles-Claude (1741–1805), writer and spy  

Simon Burrows

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Théveneau de Morande, Charles-Claude (1741–1805), writer and spy, was born on 9 November 1741 in Arnay-le-Duc in Burgundy, probably at 22 rue St Honoré, the eldest child of Louis Théveneau (bap. 1715, d. 1772), a notary, and his wife, Philiberte Belin (...

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Udall [Uvedale], William [pseud. William Stranguage] (fl. c. 1595–1636), historian and informer  

David J. Duncan

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Udall [Uvedale], William [pseud. William Stranguage] (fl. c. 1595–1636), historian and informer, was born into the influential Udall (or Uvedale) family, active in and around the echelons of power. According to his own recollections, he had a very good education and a Catholic upbringing in ...

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Vassall, (William) John Christopher (1924–1996)  

Maker: F. Shepherd

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23 September 2004
(William) John Christopher Vassall (1924–1996) by F. Shepherd, 1975 © News International Newspapers Ltd

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Vassall [later Phillips], (William) John Christopher (1924–1996), Admiralty official and spy  

Peter Martland

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Vassall [later Phillips], (William) John Christopher (1924–1996), Admiralty official and spy, was born on 20 September 1924 at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, where his father, William Vassall, was a long-serving chaplain and his mother, Mabel Andrea Sellicks, was a nurse. Educated at a boarding-school at ...