Wife leaving order is notorious (6)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

Always puts me in mind of Henry V’s Fluellen: “Kill the poys and the luggage! ’tis expressly against the law of arms: ’tis as arrant a piece of knavery, mark you now, as can be offer’t; in your conscience, now, is it not?”.  We just remove the W[ife] from WARRANT for order.