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 executioner’s 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 Caulfield’s The High Court of Justice, London, 1820.

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