When, one place, in some sense, History diverged, V.-like (maybe)

[Mark Kohut]

In my Shakespeare self-education, there is this to know of:
"Holinshed's Chronicles", the famous compilation of English history, editions
in 1577, then revised 10 years later. The popular best-selling history of its 
time......

Which Shakespeare read to get the facts for many of his plays. 

In a reevaluation entitled "Reading Holinshed's Chronicles" a Ms. Patterson
sez first that Holinshed, unlike almost all other histories then and later, did 
write of the poor, the dispossessed, the landless---[the preterites!]. 

Second, that Holinshed wrote of an indifferent, meaning objective, common law
in English society ruled by some sense of "justice as fairness"..which common
law LOST OUT to the instantiated theories of Hobbes and Locke's 'possessive 
individualism' 
as the defined nature of a polity in the West. Which became its definition, I 
guess she might say.

We know how TRP savaged at least one of them; Locke of the military state
Leviathan.

The move from a common---natural, anarchic, chaotic---togetherness as a society
to the 'possessive individualism' of the West might be the boring title of a 
paper about
an allegorical reading of Inherent Vice, yes?   

Give me a another V. for DiVergence......

P.S. for the interested, ms. Patterson sez she used the exact phrase 'justice as 
fairness'
in homage to Rawls, the political philosopher....