I'm trying to find my part-finished draft wherein I compared Gloranthan
publishing to English politics under the later Stuarts. (Such as the
dissolution of the Trading Association parliament, once a loyal voter
of funds, then prorogued into uselessness; the replacement Friends
parliament; and the secret subsidies provided by a foreign, hegemonic
state; the rise and fall of the earl of Steevie; King Francis and the
Oath of Supremacy; the Fan Publication Act; Sir Jeffrey Richard,
Attorney General, and King Francis' new cabal of ministers; the
development of court and country parties; various dissenters, Jacobites
and nonjurors; Lord Christchurch's virulent campaign of pamphlet
warfare conducted against his enemies in the cabinet and elsewhere; and
so on.)
Sadly, I think I've deleted it. I might have to write it again, if only
because it had the delightfully named earl of Minty as Lord Treasurer,
and Mark as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.
Stu.