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Boyle, Francis see Shannon, 1st Viscount

Boyle, Robert: friendship with Burnet, 43; visits Netherlands, 170; on Grand Tour, 172; and Christiaan Huygens’ watch mechanism, 267, 280; co-founds Royal Society, 273; leaves London during plague, 305

Brandenburg, Friedrich, Elector of: accession, 38

Brandenburg, Friedrich Wilhelm, Elector of (’Great Elector’): death, 38; marriage, 38, 75

Brandenburg, Louise Henriette, Electress of, 38, 75, 147

Brant, Isabella (Rubens’s wife), 109

Bray, Salomon de, 90

Brazil: Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen’s garden in, 253–4; landscape, 254–5; Johan Maurits sends commodities to Sir Constantijn Huygens from, 333

Brereton, William, 336

Breughel, Jan I: Cattle Market, 123

Briel, Den (frigate), 10

Bril, Paul, 126

Britain see England

Brouncker, William, 2nd Viscount, 274–5, 279, 281–2, 289, 304–5

Browne, Edward, 265, 356

Bruce, Alexander see Kincardine, 2nd Earl of

Bruges: Charles II in, 175

Buckingham, George Villiers, 1st Duke of, 110, 116, 131, 184, 195

Buren, Netherlands, 85

Burlamachi, Philip, 100

Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury: lands with William, 11, 14; as William’s chaplain, 11, 46; on setting up of Convention (1688), 18; edits and translates William’s Declaration, 29, 43; reads Declaration from Exeter cathedral pulpit, 31; influenced by Dutch Republic, 36; background and career, 42–3, 46; and William’s aims, 42; and William’s claim to English throne, 246; History of his own Times, 36

Busschoff, Hermann, 343

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Calado, Manuel, 255

Cambridge, Prince Charles, Duke of: death in babyhood, 66

Cambridge University: Newton’s position at, 311–12

Campani, Giuseppe, 297, 301

Campen, Jacob van, 89–90, 156–8, 159, 204, 207, 209–10, 333

Carleton, Sir Dudley: diplomatic career, 94, 99–101, 108; art collection and interests, 102, 104–10, 112, 123; introduces Honthorst to Charles I, 131; protests at New Netherland Company in America, 321

Caron, Noel de, Lord of Schoonewalle, 94–6

Carr, Robert see Somerset, Earl of

Catherine of Braganza, Queen of Charles II, 54, 78

Cats, Jacob, 50, 220, 225, 231, 233, 238, 241

Caus, Isaac de, 47–8

Caus, Salomon de, 86, 228, 230; Hortus Palatinus, 219

Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle, 149, 194, 196–7, 200–1, 203, 208–9

Charles I, King of Great Britain and Ireland: garden, 22; portraits, 55, 74, 109, 117, 120, 148; execution, 65, 113, 120, 238; and daughter Mary’s marriage, 67, 69–70, 73; personal rule, 67; and Civil War, 72; gives pension to Elizabeth of Bohemia, 88; welcomes Sir Constantijn Huygens, 95, 212; art collection sold and dispersed, 108, 115–17, 131, 137; and Dutch artists, 130–1; and Lanier, 198; ostentation, 207; visits Wilton, 219; appoints Vermuyden to drain Hatfield Chase, 237–8; financial anxieties, 347

Charles II, King of Great Britain and Ireland: and garden design, 21, 224, 226; and succession, 54–5, 88; declines Dutch appeal for support against French, 62–3; proposed Dutch marriages, 75–7; in Netherlands, 76–7, 88, 170, 172, 204, 269; and Elizabeth Killigrew, 77, 170; mistresses and illegitimate children, 77–8, 170–1; Restoration and return to England (1660), 77, 139, 197; marriage to Catherine of Braganza, 78; relations with William, 80; reacquires royal works of art, 117; Hanneman portrait, 132; Dutch gift of paintings on Restoration, 139–40, 142, 143, 144–5; in Spa, 161–2; excluded from United Provinces, 175; in Antwerp, 178; hears Anne de la Barre sing, 186; and Ballet de la Carmesse, 192; and Duke of Newcastle’s move to Antwerp, 195; and Prince Rupert’s drops, 202; rebuilds Greenwich palace, 206; coronation, 274, 315; and charter for Connecticut, 317; anti-Dutch courtiers, 327, 329; and British assault on Dutch settlements in North America, 327, 331–2; entertains William on visit to London, 350–1; William attempts to recover money from, 350–2; signs Treaty of Dover (1670), 352

Chester, 32

China: medical practices imported to West, 344–5

Christina, Queen of Sweden, 185, 187, 196, 222–3

Civil War (English, 1642–6),