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WILLIAM BEDLOE (1650-1680)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 622 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM BEDLOE (1650-1680)  ,
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English informer, was born at
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Chepstow on the 20th of
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April 1650 . He appears to have been well educated; he was certainly
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clever, and after coming to
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London in 1670 he became acquainted with some
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Jesuits and was occasionally employed by them . Calling himself now Captain Williams, now Lord Gerard or Lord
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Newport or Lord Cornwallis, he travelled from one
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part of
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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
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murder of
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Sir E . B . Godfrey was rewarded with £5oo . Emboldened by his success he denounced various
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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
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common pleas, revealed nothing of importance . Bedloe wrote a Narrative and impartial
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discovery of the horrid Popish Plot (1679), but all his statements are extremely untrustworthy . See J .
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Pollock, The Popish Plot (1903) .

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