Scourers

"Scourers," — dynasties of tyrants, as Macaulay styles them, which domineered over the streets of London, soon after the Restoration, and at

London and the Kingdom - Volume I

The carelessness and wickedness of the young men of the city were always a sore subject, and he still winced when the pranks of the Scourers were commented upon by his neighbours.

The Sign of the Red Cross Evelyn Everett-Green 1894

Scourers, of which more anon, and many amongst his former friends and associates shook their heads, and declared that Charles Mason was growing so puffed up by wealth that he would scarce vouchsafe a nod to an old acquaintance in the street, unless he were smart and prosperous looking.

The Sign of the Red Cross Evelyn Everett-Green 1894

Scourers which resulted in broken heads and sometimes in actual bloodshed.

The Sign of the Red Cross Evelyn Everett-Green 1894

"You Scourers will find that you can play your meddlesome games too often," remarked Reuben sternly, his eyes upon the red cross and the half-completed words above.

The Sign of the Red Cross Evelyn Everett-Green 1894

The bulk of the young roisterers thus assembled belonged to one of those bands of Scourers of which Frederick claimed to be the head.

The Sign of the Red Cross Evelyn Everett-Green 1894

Scourers, and Mohocks, among whom were numbered Sedley and Rochester, and others of the best poets of the day, are celebrated by him incidentally in those lines, unsurpassable for sombre magnificence, which he appends to his account of Belial --

Milton Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891

Scourers, Hectors, Muns, or Tityriti, prowled the streets abusing and beating every man and woman they met -- "sons of Belial flown with insolence and wine;" where turbulent apprentices set upon those the

Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

Worse still, groups of drunken and dissipated young men of wealth, calling themselves Mohocks, Scourers, and other names, roamed the dark streets armed with swords and bludgeons, assaulting, tormenting, and injuring every one whom they met, who had the ill fortune to be abroad at night.

Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

= Scourers =, a class of dissolute young men, often of the better class, who infested the streets of London, in the seventeenth century, and thought it capital fun to break windows, upset sedan-chairs, beat quiet citizens, and molest young women.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853