Sentence:  Next you have a group of <WSD>stinkards</WSD>, vermin whom I hold in abomination. . . . [T]here have been cases proved of persons being killed in their beds by the odour of <WSD>stinkards</WSD>; and it is sufficient for one of these creatures merely to pass through a granary, a fruit-room, or a cellar, to render every provision in them uneatable. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Any of various malodorous animals.