The malignant party
“evil counsellors' faction”
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a wicked and malignant party · evil counsellors · the malignant party · this faction · this malignant party
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The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660 (English)
To the petition, we say that although there are divers things in the preamble of it which we are so far from admitting that we profess we cannot at all understand them, as of ‘a wicked and malignant party prevalent in the government’;
in the texts
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
A faction of courtiers and evil counsellors blamed throughout the passage for corrupt government, religious innovation, provoking war with Scotland, and plotting against Parliament, culminating in the Irish rebellion.
the malignant party whom we have formerly described to be the actors and promotors of all our misery, they have taken heart again.
whereof the Archbishop and the Earl of Strafford being heads, they and their faction began to inveigh against the peace, and to aggravate the proceedings of the states, which so incensed His Majesty, that he forthwith prepared again for war.
This faction was grown to that height and entireness of power, that now they began to think of finishing their work, which consisted of these three parts.