Saye and Sele, William Fiennes, 1st Viscount (1582-1662). Saye and Sele was a leading member of the radical, win-the-warfaction in the House of Lords during the 1640s. As early as the 1620s he was a critic of arbitrary government and illegal taxation. Saye refused to pay ship money, and declined the military oath imposed by Charles on the nobility at the outbreak of the Bishops' wars with Scotland. He backed both the self-denying ordinance of 1645, which excluded the aristocracy from the leadership of the parliamentary armies, and the creation of the New Model Army. Politically inactive after 1649, Saye devoted himself to religion.

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