The idea here, as the chief word, ανακεφαλαιώσασθαι, is plainly military; that he might reduce under one grand command, or captaincy, or generalissimoship, in Christ...

Incoming governments normally announce that they will seek to serve the whole electorate. Now, playing out in triplicate across the UK is a divide and rule approach to leadership, straight from Donald Trump's playbook: each faction consolidating its base, choosing an enemy and accusing opponents of treason in the hope that in a multiparty system they can win with a minority of votes.

THE FAYRE PROCLAIMED. / O Yes, come all who doe intend to buy / Good Penniworths; do you want Treachery, / Schisme, Sedition, Votes, both pro and con, / Doe you want Bane, to kill a Nation: / Doe you want Orders, Questions, Proclamations, / Covenants, Contracts, Compacts, Protestations, / Here you may furnisht be, with fires of ayre, / O yes, come all then, unto White-Hall Fayre.

The Church of England separated from the Roman Catholic Church in 1534.