TITUS OATES.
The connection of this "famous" man with Hastings is mentioned in every guide book known to collectors, but little is stated beyond the fact that he was famous as an Informer in the Popish Plot.
The Trial of Titus Oates 1684-5.
The Corporation records contain an entry on 3rd August, 1675. "This assembly are agreed that Mr. Maior shall be advised by the ports Counsell at the public charge of this Corporacion, whether His Majesty's writ out of the Crown Office in the King's Bench proceeded at the suite of Titus Otes, Clerk, to remove thither the indictment of purjurie late preferred in Session against him by Francis Norwood, and served at the last Session, shall be defended or returned. The Writ was obeyed and the indictment returned." Suss. Arch. Coll., Vol XIV. F. Norwood was Town Clerk.
The following is an extract from The Universal Magazine of 1760 : "The year 1684 was almost wholly spent in establishing the King's acquired absolute power. (Charles II.)" . . . "To -
