ABSTRACT
The range of John Denham's travels between his first journey into exile in 1646 and the Restoration in 1660 to a great extent shaped his relationship with other groups of royalists. Denham was to remain in uninterrupted exile from August 1648 until March 1653. During this period he was employed by both the queen and Charles as a courier and diplomat, employments that involved considerable travelling. Denham remained in exile until the early spring of 1653, a period of frustration, idleness, and general demoralisation for the Stuart cause. A brief Relation of the Affairs of England as they stand at presents that drew a totally pessimistic picture of the absence of loyalist feeling, there was being 'no talk of Presbyterian or royalist at present'. The range of Denham's travels between his first journey into exile in 1646 and the Restoration in 1660 to a great extent shaped his relationship with other groups of royalists.
