selfdenying

Updated: July 31, 2026

That victory was not a more serious blow to the Royalists than to the party which had hitherto been dominant at Westminster, for it was notorious that the day, disgracefully lost by the Presbyterians, had been retrieved by the energy of Cromwell, and by the steady valour of the warriors whom he had trained. These events produced the Selfdenying Ordinance and the new model of the army.

Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1