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a. “Ordered, That Mr. Boyle and his Wife shall have a pass to go in to Holland; carrying with them Servants, and such Necessaries as are fit for his Journey.”’

50 See Birch, Life of Boyle. Birch adds the footnote: ‘Mr. Boyle’s letter to Mr. Marcombes, dated from London, Febr. 22, 1647–8, in which he mentions his intentions of setting out for Holland the next day.’

51 Charlotte’s birth date is generally given as ‘around 1650’, since the actual birth took place discreetly, and her status as a royal bastard was not made public till many years later.

52 J.P. Vander Motten, ‘Thomas Killigrew’s “lost years”, 1655–1660’, Neophilologus 82 (1998), 311–34.

53 See above for the marital disgrace of Thomas’s sister, Francis Boyle’s wife.

54 J.P. Vander Motten, ‘Killigrew, Thomas (1612–1683)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [www.oxforddnb.com.catalogue.ulrls. lon.ac.uk:80/view/article/15538, accessed 8 April 2007].

55 Endymion Porter, who we are told actually found the house for the Cavendishes, was an agent involved in numerous art purchases made in the Low Countries on behalf of noble English clients. He was certainly well known to Huygens, and had served in the same capacity in purchases for the Dutch Stadholder. Huygens mentions Margaret Cavendish in a letter to Utricia Swann in 1653, when he has not yet met her in person.

56 4/14 October, 1655. Worp, De briefwisseling van Constantijn Huygens (1608–1687), 5, 244–5, letter 5432.

7: Consorts of Viols, Theorbos and Anglo–Dutch Voices

1 B. van Beneden, ‘Introduction’, in B. van Beneden and Nora de Poorter (eds), Royalist Refugees: William and Margaret Cavendish in the Rubens House 1648–1660 (Antwerp: Rubenshuis & Rubenianum, 2006), p.10.

2 I. van Damme, ‘A city in transition: Antwerp after 1648’, in ibid., pp.55–62; 58.

3 See P. Major, ‘A Church in exile: Anglican survival and resistance in Antwerp, 1650–53’ (in press).

4 On Jews and Jewish practice in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century, see the many articles by J.I. Israel, particularly those in Studia Rosenthaliana.

5 On the Duarte family and its art collections see Edgar Samuel, ‘The disposal of Diego Duarte’s Stock of Paintings 1692–1697’, Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kusten-Antwerpen (1976); ‘Manuel Levy Duarte (1631–1714): An Amsterdam Merchant Jeweller and his Trade with London’, Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England XXVII, 11–31. See also G. Dogaer, Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kusten-Antwerpen (1971), for the 1683 inventory of the Duarte picture collection.

6 See entry for Gaspar Duarte on the website of the Joods Historische Museum of Amsterdam: http://www.jhm.nl/.

7 ‘Anvers, ce 24e de Mars 1641’. Gaspar Duarte to Huygens. Worp, letter 2677.

8 J. Duarte to Huygens, 7 April 1641. Worp, letter 2686.

9 G.F. Duarte to Huygens, 21 April 1641. Worp, letter 2677.

10 G.F. Duarte to Huygens, 9 May 1641. Worp, letter 2703.

11 I owe this connection to Nadine Akkerman, who is editing the letters of Elizabeth of Bohemia, for whom Wicquefort also worked.

12 £9 sterling = 100 Dutch guilders.

13 See Marika Keblusek, ‘Mary, princess royal (1631–1660)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com.catalogue.ulrls. lon.ac.uk:80/view/article/18252, accessed 9 April 2007].

14 See below, Chapter 8.

15 See G. Dogaer, ‘De inventaris der schilderijen van Diego Duarte’, Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor schone Kunsten Antwerpen (1971), 195–221; 203.

16 21 July 1648. Worp, letter 4845. On Huygens and the de Barres, see J. Tiersot, ‘Une famille de musiciens français au XVIIe siècle les de Barre. III. Les enfants de Pierre. Anne de la Barre. chez Huygens’, Revue de musicologie 9 (1928), 1–11; 7.

17 31 July 1648. Worp, letter 4850.

18 Tiersot, ‘Une famille de musiciens français’, pp.7–9 (not in Worp).

19 30 January 1653. Worp, letter 5271.

20 C. Huygens, ‘Dessein de l’entrée

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