 For example, in Cornwall the Royalist leader Sir Ralph Hopton indicted the enemy before the grand jury of the county for disturbing the peace, and expelled them by using the "posse comitatus".In effect, both sides assembled local forces wherever they could do so by valid written authority.After two years of ruinous but indecisive military campaigning, Parliament passed the Self-denying Ordinance, (by which members of both Houses of Parliament were deprived of military office, a measure originally introduced to replace some high-ranking officers who were suspected of disloyalty or defeatism),

The New Model Army proved supreme in field, no more so than in the Second English Civil War which was succinctly described by Sir Winston Churchill