Wander evokes the sound-alike wonder. To wonder is to experience intense awe, but in the British register in particular this can have negative connotations. "I wonder that they should try something that stupid."

Charter here has an interesting dual meaning that persists through the text. Charter refers both to the letters of permission that stand for the surveillance state of the consolidated monarchy, as well as the reformist and radical reformist pro-electoral movement which promoted the charts as a form of pre-constitution.