WILLIAM, better known by his assumed title of Captain, was an infamous adventurer of low birth, who had travelled, under various disguises, over a great part of Europe. Encouraged by the success of Titus Oates, he turned general evidence, gave an account of Godfrey's murder, and added many circumstances to the narrative of Oates. A reward of £500 was voted to Bedloe by the commons; and he is said to have asserted the reality of the Papist plot on his deathbed; but the whole story is overlaid with absurdity, contradiction, and perjury. Bedloe died in 1680. Giles Jacob states, that he was author of a play entitled The Excommunicated Prince, or the False Relict, 1679; but Anthony Wood asserts, that it was written by one Thomas Walter, M.A., of Jesus College, Oxford.