Lionel Anderson
Lionel Anderson
Lionel Anderson, alias Munsonwas an English Dominican priest, who was falsely accused of treason during the Popish Plot, which a fabrication of the notorious anti-Catholic informer Titus Oates. He was convicted of treason on the technical ground that he had acted as a Catholic priest within England, contrary to an Elizabethan statute, but he was eventually released and sent into exile, after a biased trial, and after serving a term of imprisonment...