Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- PART ONE THE RESTORATION CRISIS
- PART TWO THE SHADOW OF THE PAST
- 5 Family politics 1677–83
- 6 European politics 1678–80
- 7 Domestic politics 1678–9
- 8 The Mutinous City 1679–81
- 9 The Vindication of parliaments 1681–3
- PART THREE THE OLD CAUSE
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
5 - Family politics 1677–83
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 March 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- PART ONE THE RESTORATION CRISIS
- PART TWO THE SHADOW OF THE PAST
- 5 Family politics 1677–83
- 6 European politics 1678–80
- 7 Domestic politics 1678–9
- 8 The Mutinous City 1679–81
- 9 The Vindication of parliaments 1681–3
- PART THREE THE OLD CAUSE
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
Summary
my desir of being … somme service unto my old father perswaded me to ask leave to comme over … but [he] … being dead within six weekes after my arrivall, I have noe other businesse heare then to cleare somme small contests that are growne between one of my brothers and me concerning that which he hath left me, and, if it please God to give [me] successe … have [only] … the desire of retiring from hence, without any thought of ever returning … carrying with me … sufficient to purchase a convenient habitation in Gascony, not farre from Bordeaux, where I may in quiet finish thoes days that God hath appointed for me.
Sidney to Benjamin Furly, 29 November 1677INTRODUCTION
After eighteen years on the continent, seventeen of them in exile, Sidney landed in England in late September 1677. He may have arrived at the Castle at Dover, of which he had been commander almost thirty years before. From the Kentish coast there was not far to travel to Penshurst, where his father was to die five and a half weeks later.
Sidney seems to have returned alone, though doubtless accompanied by the usual ‘domesticks’. Despite the later reference to a daughter, to marry his ‘valet’ from Nerac, Joseph Ducasse, there is no evidence that such a person travelled with him now.
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- Algernon Sidney and the Restoration Crisis, 1677–1683 , pp. 85 - 103Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991