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Uylenburgh, Gerrit van, 137, 140

Uytenbroek, Moses van, 126

V

Velde, Esaias van de, 126

Vermeer, Jan, 144; Young Lady Playing the Clavecin, 121

Vermuyden, Cornelius, 237–8

Vermuyden, Cornelius, jr, 237

Versailles: garden, 242, 245–6

Visscher, Maria Tesselschade, 149

Vrijburg Palace, Recife, 253–6

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Waller, Richard, 280–2, 314–15

Wallis, John, 289, 315

Walter, Lucy, 77

Webb, Colonel William, 114, 116

Weede, Everard van see Dijkvelt, Everard van Weede van

Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire, 210

West Indies: African slaves in, 327

Westerschelling, 285

Westphalia, Treaty of (1648), 88

White, John, 31

White Mountain, battle of the (1620), 87, 229

Whitehall: guarded by Dutch troops, 23

Whitehall Palace: Banqueting Hall decoration and paintings, 135, 140

Wicquefort, Joachim of (Joachim Factor), 180, 182

Wildens, Jan, 126

Wilhem, Constantia de (née Huygens), 152, 154, 211

Wilhem, David de, 211

Wilkins, John, Bishop of Chester, 273, 280, 282, 302, 305

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

William II, Prince of Orange: marriage, 67, 85, 111; court, 81, 85–6; death, 113, 119, 139, 185–6, 191

William III (of Orange), King of England, Scotland and Ireland: invasion of England (1688), 1, 2–3, 4–7, 10–11, 26, 42, 47, 79, 292; strength of forces, 8–9; progress to and arrival in London, 15–16, 18–21, 44–5, 47; gardening interests, 21, 23, 47–8, 51, 241, 248–9, 262; accepted as monarch, 26, 79, 349; propaganda campaign, 27–9, 31, 247; pictured, 28, 32, 133, 134; Declaration, 29–35, 42–3, 46, 64; proposes war with France, 39; sightseeing detours on way to London, 48–50, 262; presents Suasso with painting of orange tree, 51, 52; busts, 60, 65; marriage to Mary, 62, 66, 69–70, 71, 72, 163, 182, 239, 352; regime as Stadholder, 62, 263; and succession to English throne, 62–6, 79–80, 247; and French threat, 63; art interests and collection, 118, 147–8; Dieussart figures of, 138; and Dutch paintings in Royal Collection, 144–5; asthma, 148, 248; education, 170, 204; command of English, 171; and Duarte, 178; gives wedding jewel to Mary, 180–3, 182; birth, 191; at Hampton Court, 248–9; on Blathwayt’s dullness, 260; campaign against French, 263, 290; legitimacy to throne settled by Convention, 310; and Newton’s academic position at Cambridge, 311–12; attempts to recover money from Charles II, 350–2; and Dutch economic decline, 357; see also United Provinces

William, Prince of Orange (the Silent), 33, 64, 205, 229; tomb and epitaph, 354–5

Wilson, Elizabeth (wife of Daniël Mitjens), 132

Wilton House, near Salisbury, gardens, 47–50, 48, 218–22, 262

Windsor Beauties: painted, 135

Windsor Castle: Constantijn Huygens jr inspects art in, 18; pictured, 19

Winthrop, John, jr, 316–18, 330

Witt, Cornelius and Johan de, 37, 62

Witte, Emanuel de, 337

Wolff, Pieter de, 250

women: Sir Constantijn Huygens’ regard for, 149; status in United Provinces, 154–5; in Anglo-Dutch marriages, 159–60; and science, 202

Wotton, Sir Henry, 98, 250

Wouw, Cornelia van, 134

Wren, Sir Christopher: certifies Fox’s expenditure, 17; in Royal Society, 273, 289; and Christiaan Huygens’ horological innovations, 289; Auzout wishes to meet, 298; in Paris during Hooke-Auzout controversy, 304–5; supports Stuarts, 308; on Chinese medicine, 344; letters from Sir Constantijn Huygens, 353–5; and proposed inscriptions for Monument to Great Fire, 353–4; and Leon’s model of Temple of Solomon, 356–7

Wren, Matthew, Bishop of Ely, 70

Y

York, Anne, Duchess of (née Hyde), 54, 64, 66, 135, 191

Z

Zuylestein, Frederick, Count van, 28

Author’s Note: Names, Money and Dates

You only have to try to buy a map of or a guidebook to the Netherlands to realise that the naming of territory in the Low Countries is fraught with difficulty. Strictly speaking, ‘Holland’ is only one of the seven provinces which have, since the end of the sixteenth century, made up the United Provinces or Dutch