The malecontents in the Established Church are contributing their efforts to bring Protestantism into contempt, by their adoption of every error and every absurdity of the Papist.
The bolder portion of these malecontents have already apostatized.
The number of the malecontents amounted to four thousand foot and sixteen hundred horse; and they expected the concurrence of all the Catholics in England.
An effort made at this time by David Rogers, a member of the senate, and some other malecontents in West Augusta, to erect themselves into a separate state, proved abortive.
Some malecontents were punished for speaking disrespectfully of him, and refusing to pay the castle duties.
The malecontents took the opportunity to send home charges against Laudonnière of peculation, favoritism, and tyranny.
Improving their advantage, the malecontents gained over nearly all the best soldiers in the fort.
The whole nation was held in suspense; a regular conspiracy was formed against the king's authority, and a correspondence settled between the malecontents in Flanders and those in England.
They informed him, that resentment against the king's reply was the chief cause which retained the malecontents in arms, and that a milder answer would probably suppress the rebellion.
The malecontents should find, he declared, that the only effect of the resistance offered to his will was to make him more and more resolute.
His place in the meetings of the malecontents was supplied by his nephew.
Nay, they were not ashamed to say that Sancroft had provoked the King to send him to the Tower, in order that the evidence which was to confound the calumnies of the malecontents might be defective.
So many were challenged that there was some difficulty in making up the number of twelve; and among the twelve was one on whom the malecontents thought that they could depend.
Footnote 618: Roger North was one of the many malecontents who were never tired of harping on this string.
Courtiers and malecontents with one voice implored the Lord High Commissioner to close the session, and to dismiss them from a place where their deliberations might soon be interrupted by the mountaineers.
Avaux was charged to open, if possible, a communication with the malecontents in the English Parliament; and he was authorised to expend, if necessary, a hundred thousand crowns among them.
But the malecontents out of doors did not fail to remark that, in the late reign, the Habeas Corpus Act had not been one day suspended.
Early in the spring, therefore, the leading malecontents assembled in London for the purpose of concerting an extensive plan of action, and corresponded assiduously both with France and with Ireland.
The malecontentswho were leagued with France were alert and full of hope.
It was a common opinion, that it would not be difficult to detach him from the party ofmalecontents with whom his lot was cast.
The most active of these malecontents was William of Orange.
The party of the malecontents in the Netherlands comprehended persons of very different opinions, who were by no means uniformly satisfied with the reasonable objects proposed by the compromise.
For, though both Scotland and Ireland supported separate military establishments, those establishments were not more than sufficient to keep down the Puritan malecontents of the former kingdom and the Popish malecontents of the latter.
But the malecontents were divided into parties which were almost as hostile to one another as to their rulers; nor was any of those parties eager to join the invaders.
The malecontentsbesieged the throne with petitions, demanding that Parliament might be forthwith convened.
More than three hundred rebels and malecontents were transported to the colonies.
A coalition was formed between the military malecontents and the republican minority of the House of Commons.
If he had, since the dissolution, done some harsh things, still those things were in strict conformity with the letter of the law, and with the recent practice of the malecontents themselves.
While the soldiers remained united, all the plots and risings of the malecontents were ineffectual.
It might perhaps have been beyond his power at once to overawe the malecontents within the walls and to repel an attack from without: but no such attack was made.
After this, de Castro and the rest of the malecontents continued their journey towards the camp of Gonzalo, taking Loyasa and Zavallos along with them under strict custody.
The Araucanian malecontents alleged that it was merely a trick to deceive their nation, in order to conquer them at a future opportunity with the more facility, when they had become unaccustomed to the use of arms.
At Lima, to which most of these prisoners had gone, Pedro Martin de Cecilia the provost marshal was a violent partizan of Gonzalo, and caused several of these malecontents to be hanged.
The malecontents at the coffeehouses of London murmured at this profusion, and accused William of ostentation.
But the utmost spite of all the leading malecontents were concentrated on one object, the great magistrate who still held the highest civil post in the realm, and who was evidently determined to hold it in defiance of them.
The malecontents were emboldened by the lenity of the administration.
The news increased his anxiety about Liege, and determined him to send thither a force sufficient to overawemalecontents within the city, and to repel any attack from without.
At the same time some notoriousmalecontents were arrested, and were detained for a time on suspicion.
In the Park the malecontents wore their biggest looks, and talked sedition in their loudest tones.
The cry of the malecontents was that Nottingham had kept his bloodhounds in the leash, but that Trenchard had let them slip.
These intimations saved several of the malecontents from imprisonment, if not from the gallows; and it was impossible for them not to feel some relenting towards the awakened sinner to whom they owed so much.
If the malecontents had been wise, they would have been satisfied with the advantage which they had already gained.
A few days after this event the rage of the malecontents began to flame more fiercely than ever.
Indeed a design very similar to that which he imputed to the malecontents was, only three years later, actually formed by some of them, and was all but carried into execution.
It was universally remarked that the malecontents looked wiser than usual when they were sober, and bragged more loudly than usual when they were drunk.
But the will of Chosroes was no longer revered, and Siroes, who gloried in the rank and merit of his mother Sira, had conspired with the malecontentsto assert and anticipate the rights of primogeniture.
The malecontentswere in doubt: the royalists were intoxicated.
By concert, these two malecontents secretly drew forces together, and were ready to fall on Ormond, who remained in security, trusting to the pacification so lately concluded with the rebels.
Sir William Middleton joined Booth with some troops from North Wales; and the malecontents were powerful enough to subdue all in that neighborhood who ventured to oppose them.
The protector, dreading combinations between the parliament and the malecontents in the army, resolved to allow no leisure for forming any conspiracy against him; and, with expressions of great displeasure, he dissolved the parliament.
But the chief resource of the Scottish malecontents was in themselves, and in their own vigor and abilities.
The malecontents had been very industrious in representing to the English the grievances under which Scotland labored, and the ill counsels which had been suggested to their sovereign.
The triumph of the malecontentsover the church was not yet so immediate or certain.
Their Quarrels with their Adversaries were chiefly Religious; and the greatest Complaints of the Malecontentsin both Nations were made against the Establish'd Church.
Nor did ever any Malecontents own themselves to be Rebels.
The marquis of Athole, together with Viscount Tarbat and others, finding the opportunity favorable, began to form intrigues against Perth, the chancellor; and the Presbyterians and other malecontents flocked from all quarters to Edinburgh.
Great precautions, therefore, were used by the Scottish malecontents in their representations to the king; but no redress was obtained.
To anticipate a little in our narration; a convention, by circular letters from the prince, was summoned at Edinburgh on the twenty-second of March, where it was soon visible that the interest of the malecontents would entirely prevail.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "malecontents" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
