Oates's sentence was, to be fined a thousand marks on each indictment, to be whipped on two different days from Aldgate to Newgate, and from Newgate to Tyburn, to be imprisoned during life, and to be pilloried five times every year.

The impudence of the man supported itself under the conviction, and his courage under the punishment.

He made solemn appeals to Heaven, and protestations of the veracity of his testimony: though the whipping was so cruel, that it was evidently the intention of the court to put him to death by that punishment, he was enabled, by the care of his friends, to recover; and he lived to King William's reign, when a pension of four hundred pounds a year was settled on him.

A considerable number still adhered to him in his distresses, and regarded him as the martyr of the Protestant cause.
The populace were affected with the sight of a punishment more severe than is commonly inflicted in England.

And the sentence of perpetual imprisonment was deemed illegal.
The conviction of Oates's perjury was taken notice of by the house of peers.