Popish Plot
In 1678 a corrupt English clergyman named Titus Oates announced that he had uncovered a "Popish Plot" to murder King Charles II of England and replace him with James, his Catholic brother. Nonconformists rushed to support the Anglican Whigs, who consequently won a great majority in the House of Commons. In 1679 the Whigs passed the "Exclusion Act" to keep James from the throne, but the act failed to pass the House of Lords. It later developed that Oates had lied, and Whig popularity declined after capitalizing off of near-civil-war.
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