DORISLAUS, ISAAC (15951649)

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DORISLAUS, ISAAC (15951649) , AngloDutch lawyer and diplomatist, was born in 1595 at Alkmaar, Holland, the son of a minister of the Dutch reformed

church

. He was educated at Leiden, removed to England about 1627, and was appointed to a lectureship in history at

Cambridge

, where his attempt to justify the Dutch revolt against Spain led to his early resignation. In 1629 he was admitted a commoner of the College of

Advocates

ADVOCATES, FACULTY OF

. In 1632 he made his peace at

court

, and on two occasions acted as judge

advocate

, in the bishops' war of 164o and in 1642 in the army commanded by

Essex

. In 1648 he became one of the

judges

JUDGES, THE BOOK OF

of the admiralty

court

, and was sent on a diplomatic errand to the states general of Holland. He assisted in preparing the charge of high treason against Charles I.,and,while negotiating an alliance between the

Commonwealth

COMMONWEALTH

and the Dutch Republic, was murdered at the Hague by royalist refugees on the loth of May 1649. His remains were buried in Westminster Abbey, and moved in 1661 to St

Margaret

's churchyard.

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