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Title: Diary of the Times of Charles the Second by the Honourable
Henry Sidney, afterwards Earl of Romney; including his
correspondence with the Countess of Sunderland and other
distinguished persons at the English Court; to which are added
letters illustrative of the times of James II. and William III.
Edited, with notes, by R. W. Blencowe.Publisher: British Library,
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Sidney, Henry Earl of Romney.; Blencowe, Robert Willis.SIDNEY
afterwards SPENCER afterwards SMYTHE Dorothy Countess of
Sunderland. 1843 2 vol.; 8 . 808.h.17-18.
Also Authored By Francis Osborn, Matthew Hale, William Penn, And
Others.
Also Authored By Francis Osborn, Matthew Hale, William Penn, And
Others.
Three times Viceroy, Sir Henry Sidney was a key figure in the
Elizabethan conquest of Ireland. Sidney's account of his public
career in Ireland, written in the winter of 1582-3, is one of the
earliest political memoirs in English literature. It is unique
among early memoirs in its size, richness of detail, and apparent
fidelity to the factual record.Composed in plain prose and
consciously shorn of decoration and classical allusion, his
narrative presents an individual with attitudes and preoccupations
at odds with the zealous advocates of military conquest and
religious oppression so often portrayed by historians. By exploring
its emphases, omissions and deviations from the recorded sequence
of events, the editor's introduction reveals a surprisingly complex
set of Elizabethan perceptions and prejudices about Ireland. This
memoir, last edited for publication in the mid-nineteenth century,
is an essential source for the study of the English in Ireland.
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