malignants

---- The malignants will be your death, and this gravel will be mine; but you will have the advantage of me, for you will die honourably before many witnesses, with

Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies John Howie 1764

An ordinance was accordingly passed on the 18th against the election of "malignants" to the city council.

London and the Kingdom - Volume II

Royalist owners, in order to meet their own necessities, to satisfy the exactions levied by Parliament on "malignants," or to permit the loyal owner to contribute to the necessities of the Crown.

Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 Henry Craik 1886

The Achzeans cannot regard them (unless on account of the breach of truce, by no Trojan, but an ally) as the Covenanters regarded "malignants," their name for loyal cavaliers, whom they also styled "Amalekites," and treated as Samuel treated Agag.

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

They only needed it until they had got the "malignants" out of the way, and had established the constitution; and they would undertake to maintain these troops at their own cost.

Hellenica 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

The "malignants" who had so long trodden pious men under foot lay helpless at the feet of the godly.

History of the English People, Volume VI (of 8) Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 John Richard Green 1860

From the outset of the war all who had taken part on the Royalist side had been disfranchised as "malignants," and this disfranchisement had been rigorously enforced even in the elections to the Convention.

History of the English People, Volume VI (of 8) Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 John Richard Green 1860

The parsons expelled were expelled as "malignants," or as unfitted for their office by idleness or vice or inability to preach.

History of the English People, Volume VI (of 8) Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 John Richard Green 1860

"malignants" might be distinguished from the "well-affected"; but the taking or not taking of the Solemn League and Covenant was the test paramount.

The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864

"malignants" generally, or those whose only fault was that they were prominent adherents to the King, what was that but one of the harsh natural vengeances of a civil war?

The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864