"Truly," wrote Cromwell after the battle of Marston Moor, "England and the Church of God hath had a great favour from the Lord, in this great victory given unto us, such as the like never was since this war began. It had all the evidences of an absolute victory obtained by the Lord's blessing upon the godly party principally." By "the godly party" he meant his own troopers.


—Maurice Ashley, The Greatness of Oliver Cromwell