Dorislaus, ISAAC

Dorislaus, ISAAC, born in 1595 at Alkmaar, in Holland, came about 1627 to England, where for some time he held a history lectureship at Cambridge, and afterwards was appointed judge-advocate. He sided with the parliament, helped to bring Charles I. to his doom, and in the spring of 1649 was sent back to his native land to bring about an alliance between the republic and England. He had just reached the Hague, when on 12th May he was assassinated by a Scottish colonel and eleven more royalist conspirators. His body was brought to England, and buried in Westminster Abbey, whence in 1661 it was transferred to St Margaret's Churchyard.