ISAAC DORISLAUS

ISAAC DORISLAUS (1595-1649), a lawyer, born at Alkmaar, in Holland; came toEngland, and was appointed Judge-Advocate; acted as such at King Charles's trial, and was for that latter offence assassinated at the Hague one evening by certain high-flying Royalist cut-throats, Scotch several of them; "his portrait represents him as a man of heavy, deep-wrinkled, elephantine countenance, pressed down by the labours of life and law".