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b'(Samantha) In the summer of 1678 a defrocked preacher named Titus Oates claimed to have knowledge of a Catholic plot to kill King Charles II and to replace him with his crypto-Catholic brother. At first the story gained no traction, reported as it was by a man of dubious reputation, but when Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey (the man who had first investigated Oates\\u2019 story) was found dead people started listening. This week we\\u2019ll lay it all out for you: who was Titus Oats? What\\u2019s the deal with Godfrey\\u2019s death? And what happened when people came to believe that there was a plot against Charles?'