ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how royalist exiles react to the death of fellow exiles, as well as friends and family left behind in England. Sir Richard Page had been an active conspirator in exile against the republican government at home, including in Penruddock's rising, and was admired by his fellow exiles for his loyalty and dynamism. In exile in France, Verney views his past life in England, even comparatively nugatory aspects of it, as infinitely more meaningful than the half life he lives now. The response to Mary Verney's death of another of Sir Ralph's friends, fellow exile Sir Henry Newton, exemplifies in its highly personal tone just why Verney and other royalist exiles could regard male friendship so highly. The burial of royalists on the continent during the English Revolution has remained largely uncharted territory, despite the recent resurgence of interest in royalism and the royalist exile.
