Meal Tub Plot

A pretended plot, fabricated by Danger field in 1679, in emulation of Titus Oates, the inventor of the Popish Plot. Danger field averred that a Presbyterian plot existed to depose the King, and establish a Republic. After arrest he stated that this was only a blind to conceal a plot of the Papists, documents relating to which would be found hidden in a meal tub in the house of Mrs. Cellier, a Roman Catholic. This lady was tried for high treason and acquitted. Danger field was condemned to be flogged from New gate to Tyburn and back, and died under the lash.