“It is useless to deny, because it is impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe – the whole of Italy and France and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries – is covered with a network of these secret societies…. And what are their objects? They do not attempt to conceal them. They do not want constitutional government… they want to change the tenure of land, to drive out the present owners of the soil and to put an end to ecclesiastical establishments.”
—- Benjamin Disraeli, PM of Great Britain to the House of Commons in 1856
BDL says
His father, Isaac Disraeli, wrote cryptically about a veiled hand in the cromwellian revolution wherein Charles I, lost his head in his life of Charles I (1851). His 2 volume set is practically unobtainable. Perhaps in the larger libraries.