It was mentioned by English Protestant writers as a "popish" or magical charm. This resulted in the dispersal and destruction of many books deemed "popish" and "superstitious". It explicitly condemns the Roman Catholic Church's teaching of "the popish sacrifice of the mass". In June 1586 accusations of "popish practices" were laid against his family. Castlehaven wrote his memoirs in 1681 in response to the hysteria of the Popish Plot. She was a special object of attack by the inventors of the Popish Plot. Its character was much influenced by the aftermath of the Popish Plot crisis. The poem also refers to some of the Popish Plot furore. Opposition to the so-called "popish wardrobe" made it impossible to enforce the rubric. English governments continued to fear the fictitious Popish Plot. It was a strongly Whig piece that suggested that the Popish Plot was entirely real. The Exclusionist reaction that followed the Popish plot had died down by May 1682. Elizabeth Cellier, the seventeenth century "Popish midwife", positioned herself as a modern Agnodice. The fictitious Popish Plot unfolded in a very peculiar fashion. His name featured prominently in the Popish Plot fabricated by Titus Oates in 1678.