They claimed the right of severing in their challenges.

He singled out aspects of Quality such as unity, vividness, authority, economy, sensitivity, clarity, emphasis, flow, suspense, brilliance, precision, proportion, depth and so on; kept each of these as poorly defined as Quality itself, but demonstrated them by the same class reading techniques.

[…] began and compleated the Restauration of our present Sovereign

An army never can be commanded or controlled by civilians.