I forgot to include the following two statements

Question

1) The Elizabethans believed that everyone was linked together by a chain of rights and obligations. If someone broke the chain (Can I say "when the chain was broken"), the whole system would break down plunging the universe into chaos.
In the end, the guilty party (can I say the guilty or the bad) would be punished and order would be restored.

Thank you very much for your help.

Answer 1

yes, go with when the chain was broken and the guilty would be..