Doctor Isaac Dorislaus, assassinated in the Hague by Scottish royalists, 2 May 1649. Dorislaus was a Dutch Calvinist historian and lawyer, regicide of King Charles I of England, 1595-1649. Within a frame decorated with vignettes of skull and cross bones, chains and executioners axe, a man hanging from a gibbet at Tyburn, a condemned man on a sled, the Tower of London, Newgate Prison. Copperplate engraving by Robert Cooper from James Caulfields The High Court of Justice, London, 1820.
Doctor Isaac Dorislaus, assassinated in the Hague by Scottish royalists, 2 May 1649. Dorislaus was a Dutch Calvinist historian and lawyer, regicide of King Charles I of England, 1595-1649. Within a frame decorated with vignettes of skull and cross bones, chains and executioners axe, a man hanging from a gibbet at Tyburn, a condemned man on a sled, the Tower of London, Newgate Prison. Copperplate engraving by Robert Cooper from James Caulfields The High Court of Justice, London, 1820.