This "troubler of Israel," as Governor Winthrop termed him, wrote a pamphlet denying the right of the governor and assistants to call themselves "Scriptural Magistrates."
"England in America, 1580-1652"
Lyon Gardiner Tyler
At any rate, when Sicinius, who was the greatest troubler of the magistrates and ministers of his time, was asked how it was he let Crassus alone, "Oh," said he, "he carries hay on his horns," alluding to the custom of tying hay to the horns of a bull that used to butt, that people might keep out of his way.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh
She has long been beneath the sod, this troubler of dreams.
"Tales Of Puritan Land Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land, Volume 4."
Charles M. Skinner