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Marnix, Elizabeth (Lady Morgan), 160

Marnix, Philips, Heer van St Aldegonde, 160

Marvell, Andrew: poems on gardens, 216, 219, 232

Mary II (Stuart), Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland: and William’s invasion, 1, 42, 179; sees off William’s invasion fleet, 15; accepted as monarch, 26; in William’s Declaration, 33; pictured, 34; claims to English throne, 36, 62–3, 66, 79, 247, 310; porcelain collection, 52; marriage and residence in The Hague, 53, 62, 66, 69–70, 71, 72, 75, 76–7, 163, 212, 239, 352; and Maria of Modena’s pregnancy, 56, 182; bust, 61; influence, 78; Hanneman portrait, 132; art collection, 145, 148; and Boyle brothers, 170; in Antwerp, 175, 178; given wedding jewel by William, 180–3, 182; status in Netherlands, 213; garden interests, 249; and Dutch economic decline, 357; Mémoire, 79

Mary Queen of Scots, 54

Mary (ship), 139

Mary (Stuart), Princess Royal (William’s mother): death, 62; as sister to Charles II, 62; status, 64, 91, 118; marriage to William II, 67, 111; court in The Hague, 81–2, 85–6, 91; forbidden to give sanctuary to English royal exiles, 113; portraits, 119, 188, 189; as patron of Hanneman, 132, 134; Huygens and, 161; in Spa, 161–2; and Anne de la Barre, 186; and Ballet de la Carmesse, 188–90; dancing, 192; in Antwerp, 198; and son William’s education, 204

Matthew, Toby, 108

Maurits of Nassau, Stadholder, 82, 97, 235

Mauritshuis, The Hague, 157, 158, 204, 207, 333; garden, 256

medicine: new knowledge imported from overseas, 341–4

Meester, Willem, 11

Meurs, Jan, 123–4

microscopes, 292, 296

Mierevelt, Michiel van, 88, 126

Minuit, Paul, 321–3

Mitjens, Daniël, 132

Moer, Elizabeth van der, 122

Mollet, André, 222–4, 237, 259; The Garden of Pleasure, 21–2, 223, 223

Moluccas, 241

Molyneux, Thomas, 309

Monconys, Balthasar de, 202

Monmouth, James Scott, Duke of: birth, 77

Montias, John Michael, 120

Moray, Sir Robert: and Burnet, 43; as President of Royal Society, 202; in Low Countries, 268–9; and Christiaan Huygens’ watch and clock mechanism, 269–72, 274–5, 277–80, 282, 284, 289, 301; serves Charles II, 272; as founder member of Royal Society, 273; friendship and correspondence with Christiaan Huygens, 274, 277, 300, 306, 308; and Huygens’ questioning of Holmes’s report, 285–6; recommends Hooke’s Micrographia to Christiaan Huygens, 293, 298; on Hooke’s lens-grinding, 298, 300, 306; in Hooke-Auzout controversy, 304, 308; with Royal Society in Oxford, 305; letter from Winthrop on astronomy, 317

Mordaunt, Charles, 50

Morgan, Anna (later Lady Strickland), 160–2

Morgan, Sir Charles, 160

Morgan, Sir Lewis, 160

Morley, George, Bishop of Worcester, 176

Morrice, William, 281–2

Münster, Treaty of (1648), 175

Mytens, Daniel, 108–9

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Nantes, Edict of: Revocation (1685), 31, 41

Nassau-Dietz, Willem Frederik van, Stadholder of Friesland, 172

Nassau-Siegen, Johan Maurits van, 138, 157, 252–3, 333

Nassau-Zuijlenstein, Frederick van, 28, 170

Nassau-Zuijlenstein, Mary van (née Killigrew), 170

Neile, Sir Paul, 202

Netscher, Gaspar: portrait of Susanna Huygens, 244

New Amsterdam (later New York), 322, 323, 324–5, 326, 331–3

New Netherland (North America): settled by Dutch, 320–1, 323–6; appropriated by British, 326, 329, 331–2, 341, 346

New Netherland Company, 321

Newcastle, Duchess of see Cavendish, Margaret

Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 175, 195–8, 199, 200, 203, 208–9; Méthode et invention de dresser les chevaux, 197

Newton, Sir Isaac: political activities, 310–11, 311, 313; preferment at Cambridge, 311–12; relations with Christiaan Huygens, 312–13; at Royal Society meetings, 313–14; as Master of Royal Mint, 313; Principia, 309–10, 313

Nicholas, Sir Edward, 134, 190

Nicolls, Richard, 329–31

Nijmegen, Treaty of (1678), 38

North-East Passage, 321

North-West Passage, 321

Nys (or Nice), Daniel, 100–1

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Ogle, Utricia see Swann, Utricia, Lady

Oldenburg, Henry, 202, 265–6, 268, 274, 282, 289, 297–9, 301–7

Oosterwyck, Severijn, 276, 278