Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory (51 page)

7
S. Groenveld, ‘“J’equippe une flotte très considerable”: The Dutch side of the Glorious Revolution’, in R. Beddard (ed.),
The Revolutions of 1688
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991), pp.213–45; 240.

8
Diary of John Evelyn
4, p.597.

9
Groenveld, ‘“J’equippe une flotte”’, p.241.

10
See D.M. Swetschinski and L. Schönduve,
De familie Lopes Suasso: Financiers van Willem III
(Zwolle: Waanders, 1988).

11
Journaal van Constantijn Huygens, den Zoon, van 21 October 1688 tot 2 Sept. 1696 etc., Historisch genootschap te Utrecht Werken uitgegeven door het historisch genootschap, gevestigd te Utrecht
; nieuwe reeks, 23, 25, 46, 32. Derde serie 22, 35 (Utrecht: Kemink & Zoon, 1876–1915), I, p.13.

12
J.I. Israel and G. Parker, ‘Of Providence and Protestant winds’, in J.I. Israel (ed.),
The Anglo–Dutch Moment
, pp.335–63; 361.

13
For a full discussion of the various computations of troop and ship numbers see Israel and Parker, ‘Of Providence’, pp.337–8.

14
Israel and Parker, ‘Of Providence’, pp.353–4.

15
Saturday, 13 November 1688 (n.s.),
Journaal van Constantijn Huygens, den Zoon
I, 13.

16
Ibid.

17
Ibid.

18
D.M.L. Onnekink,
The Anglo–Dutch Favourite. The Career of Hans Willem Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland (1649–1709)
(PhD dissertation, University of Utrecht), p.37. M.E. Grew,
William Bentinck and William III (Prince of Orange): The Life of Bentinck Earl of Portland from the Welbeck Correspondence
(London: John Murray, 1924), p.134.

19
Diary of John Evelyn
4, pp.603–5.

20
‘A true and exact relation of the prince of Orange his public entrance into Exeter’ (1688), cit. Claydon,
William III
, p.55.

21
Grew,
Bentinck
, pp.137–8.

22
Calendar of Treasury Books
8, pp.2126, 2129.

23
R. Beddard, ‘The unexpected Whig revolution of 1688’, in Beddard (ed.),
The Revolutions of 1688
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991), pp.11–101; 14; see also Beddard,
A Kingdom without a King
, pp.33–4.

24
Beddard,
A Kingdom without a King
, p.35.

25
S.B. Baxter,
William III
(London: Longmans, 1966), p.246.
Journaal van Constantijn Huygens, den Zoon
I, 50.

26
Beddard,
Kingdom without a King
, p.180.

27
Roger Morrice, cit. ibid.

28
Israel, ‘The Dutch role’, p.126.

29
Diary of John Evelyn
4, p.612.

30
Israel, ‘The Dutch role’, pp.125–6.

31
Israel, ‘General Introduction’, in Israel (ed.),
The Anglo–Dutch Moment
, pp.1–43; 2.

32
See Claydon,
William III
, p.57, for the view that this change of route was a misunderstanding or mistake.

33
See below,
Chapter 5
.

34
See L. Pattacini, ‘André Mollet, Royal Gardener at St James’s Park, London’,
Garden History
26 (1998), 3–18.

35
Cit. ibid., p.10.

36
See below.

37
On Anglo–Dutch gardens see below,
Chapter 4
.

38
Israel, ‘The Dutch role’, p.128.

39
Diary of John Evelyn
4, p.600.

2: From Invasion to Glorious Revolution

1
Israel, ‘The Dutch role’, p.128.

2
Schwoerer,
The Declaration of Rights
, p.109.

3
See T. Claydon,
William III and the Godly Revolution
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp.24–8.

4
Israel, ‘The Dutch role’, pp.121–2.

5
J.I. Israel, ‘Propaganda in the making of the Glorious Revolution’, in S. Roach (ed.),
Across the Narrow Seas: Studies in the History and Bibliography of Britain and the Low Countries
(London: The British Library, 1991), pp.167–77; 167–9.

6
L.G. Schwoerer,
The Declaration of Rights, 1689
(Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981), pp.115–16.

7
Israel, ‘General Introduction’, pp.15–16.

8
See L. Jardine,
The Awful End of Prince William the Silent: The First Assassination of a Head of State with a Handgun
(London: HarperCollins, 2005).

9
Quoted in R. Beddard,
A Kingdom Without a King: The Journal of the Provisional Government in the Revolution of 1688
(Oxford: Phaidon, 1988) pp.124–49.

10
P. Laslett (ed.),
Locke’s Two Treatises on Government
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1960), p.155; B. Rang, ‘An Unidentified Source of John Locke’s Some Thoughts Concerning Education’,
Pedagogy, Culture and Society
9 (2001), 249–77.

11
Onnekink,
The Anglo–Dutch Favourite
, p.32.

12
Israel, ‘The Dutch role’, p.115.

13
Ibid., p.120.

14
Ibid., p.110.

15
Ibid., p.109.

16
Ibid., p.160.

17
Claydon,
William III
, p.29.

18
Cit. ibid., p.54.

19
R. Strong,
The Artist and the Garden
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), pp.183–92. See below,
Chapter 6
.

20
Journaal van Constantijn Huygens, den Zoon
I, p.35.

21
Ibid.

22
Ibid.

23
Journaal van Constantijn Huygens, den Zoon
I, p.36.

24
De Jong,
Nature and Art
, p.49.

25
Onnekink,
The Anglo–Dutch Favourite
, p.26.

26
See e.g. J. Israel,
The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, 1477–1806
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp.648–9.

27
See F. and J. Muller, ‘Completing the picture: The importance of reconstructing early opera’,
Early Music
33 (2005), 667–81; 670.

3: Royal and Almost-Royal Families

1
See J.R. Jones, ‘James II’s Revolution: Royal politics, 1686–92’, in J.I. Israel (ed.),
The Anglo–Dutch Moment
, pp.47–72; 55–6. See also R. Oresko, ‘The Glorious Revolution of 1688–9 and the House of Savoy’, in ibid., pp.365–88.

2
The story of the warming-pan plot here is based on R.J. Weil’s essay, ‘The politics of legitimacy: Women and the warming-pan scandal’, in L.G. Schwoerer (ed.),
The Revolution of 1688–9: Changing Perspectives
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp.65–82. I am grateful to Rachel Weil for introducing me to the warming-pan plot at the Davis Center Seminar at Princeton University, in 1988. See S.B. Baxter,
William III
(London: Longmans, 1966).

3
See ibid.

4
B.C. Brown (ed.),
The Letters and Diplomatic Instructions of Queen Anne
(London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1935), p.34.

5
Ibid., p.35.

6
Weil, ‘Politics of legitimacy’, p.67.

7
For an interesting argument concerning the inevitable impossibility of ‘proving’ the legitimacy of any birth without total confidence in women’s testimony, see ibid.

8
Diary of John Evelyn
.