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BEDLOE, WILLIAM (1650-1680)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 622 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BEC-BER
BEDLOE, WILLIAM (1650-1680) ,
English
  informer, was born at Chepstow on the 20th of
April
  1650. He appears to have been well educated; he was certainly clever, and after coming to London in 1670 he became acquainted with some
Jesuits
  and was occasionally employed by them. Calling himself now Captain Williams, now Lord Gerard or Lord
Newport
  or Lord
Cornwallis
 , he travelled from one
part
  of Europe to another; he underwent imprisonments for crime, and became an expert in all kinds of duplicity. Then in 1678, following the lead of Titus Oates, he gave an account of a supposed popish
plot
  to the
English
  government, and his version of the details of the murder of Sir E. B. Godfrey was rewarded with 5oo. Emboldened by his success he denounced various Roman Catholics, married an Irish lady, and having become very popular lived in luxurious fashion. Afterwards his fortunes waned, and he died at Bristol on the loth of August 1680. His dying depositions, which were taken by Sir Francis North,
chief
 
justice
  of the common pleas, revealed nothing of importance. Bedloe wrote a Narrative and impartial discovery of the horrid Popish
Plot
  (1679), but all his statements are extremely untrustworthy.
See J.
Pollock
 , The Popish Plot (1903).


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