malepart

malepart

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   • 1598, Markham, Gervase, “The Epiſtle to the gentle Reader, of what eſtate or calling ſoeuer.”, in A Health to the Gentlemanly profeſsion of Seruingmen: or, The Seruingmans Comfort:

     For aſſure your ſelues, and before God I proteſt, I ſpeake not againſt one in particuler, neither againſt all in generall, vpon a malepart or preſumptuous minde, as not caring who are offended with my doinges; but carefull leaſt I ſhould offende any, or incurre their diſpleaſures, by my preſumptuous enterpriſe, I humbly (as before) pray pardon.

   • 1602, Persons, Robert, The Warn-word to Sir F. Hastings Wastword:

     And ſo ſeing that Proteſtants do allow wel of ſuch diſloyalties, when they are in fauour of their owne faction and that we haue ſhewed in our former Encounter very largely out of their owne words & wrytings, that no rule of obedience or ſubiection holdeth them, when they miſlike the magiſtrate or his doings, it is malepart ſaucineſſe in this prating miniſter to keep ſuch a doe about diſloyaltyes ſo much defended and practiced by themſelues, & no wayes approued by vs, but where lawful authority iuſt cauſes and other circumſtances do make them loyaltyes.

   • 1603, A Treatise of Three Conversions, page 11:

     Alice Driuer martyr. This was the doctrix of the forſaid weauer, who was ſo malepart and contumelious before the iudges, as firſt her eares were cutt of, for callinge Q. Mary Iezabell.

   • 1611, Creswell, Joseph, A Proclamation with a Briefe Answere, page 132:

     If any man be ſo incredulous or ſo malepart, as to contend, ſi quis contentioſus eſſe velit, it may ſuffice for anſwere to all his obiectious, We have no ſuch cuſtome in the Catcholicke Church, as S. Paul anſwered to the Corinthians.