malefactours

A terrour ensueth to al malefactours and pestiferous men, good men are incensed to all godlines, whe [n] vice by Lawe is condempned, cutte of, and destroied.

A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde Richard Rainolde

And hauing pronounced this fatall iudgement, he sent one to seeke for a greate naile of a Carte, which he caused to be fastened to the beame of the chamber, and a ladder to be fetched, and then made her to tie a Coller of the order belonginge to theeues and malefactours, about the necke of her sorowfull louer.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

Wherupon it happeneth many tymes with these men, as it dyd with the blynd furious Phariseis, that as they hauyng the sword of authoritie in their handes, in stede of malefactours and false

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox