ISAAC DORISLAUS (1595–1649)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V08,
Page 429
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
ISAAC DORISLAUS (1595–1649)
, Anglo–Dutch lawyer and diplomatist, was born in 1595 at Alkmaar, See also: - HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
, the son of a minister of the Dutch reformed See also: - CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
.
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
.
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 of the admiralty court, and was sent on a diplomatic errand to the states general of Holland
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He assisted in preparing the charge of high treason against Charles I.,and,while negotiating an alliance between the 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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