regular army, which at last in discipline, in skill, in valour, reached the highest perfection ever attained by soldiers either in ancient or modern times. The fervour of Cromwell is continually pressing towards the extension of this 'regular' force. Through all the early disasters, this body of Ironsides kept the cause alive: at Marston it overwhelmed the king: as soon as, by the New Model, this system was extended to the whole army, the Civil War was at an end." _F. Harrison, Oliver Cromwell, chapter 4._ ALSO IN: _J. Forster, Statesmen of the Commonwealth: Cromwell._ ENGLAND: A. D. 1643 (JUNE-SEPTEMBER). The King calls in the Irish. "To balance the accession of power which the alliance with Scotland brought to the Parliament, Charles was so unwise, men then said so guilty, as to conclude a peace with the Irish rebels, with the intent that thus those of his forces which had been employed against them, might be set free to join his army in England. No act of the King, not the levying of ship-money, not the crowd of monopolies which enriched the court and impoverished the people, neither the extravagance of Buckingham, the tyranny of Strafford nor the prelacy of Laud, not even the attempted arrest of the five members, raised such a storm of indignation and hatred throughout the kingdom, as did this determination of the King to withdraw (as men said), for the purpose of subduing his subjects, the force which had been raised to avenge the blood of 100,000 Protestant martyrs. ... To the England of the time this act was nauseous, was exasperating to the highest degree, while to the cause of the King it was fatal; for, from this moment, the condition of the Parliamentary party began to mend." _N. L. Walford, Parliamentary Generals of the Great Civil War, chapter 2._ "None of the king's schemes proved so fatal to his cause as these. On their discovery, officer after officer in his own army flung down their commissions, the peers who had fled to Oxford fled back again to London, and the Royalist reaction in the Parliament itself came utterly to an end." _J. R. Green, Short History of England, chapter 8, section 7._ ALSO IN: _S. R. Gardiner, History of the Great Civil War, chapter 11 (volume 1)._ ENGLAND: A. D. 1643 (JULY). Meeting of the Westminster Assembly of Divines.