A salt teare: or, The vveeping [weeping] onion, at the lamentable funerall of Dr. Dorislaus.
Summary: | Royalist satire, revelling in the death of Isaac Dorislaus. Place of publication from Wing. Verse - "What though Lamented curs'd; & the High Tree". Isaac Dorislaus (1595-1649) was a Dutch Calvinist historian and lawyer and the University of Cambridge's first ever professor of History. He was murdered in the Hague while negotiating as a representative of the Commonwealth in the Dutch Republic in May 1649, by a group of English Royalists led by Walter Whitford (namesake and son of the former Bishop of Brechin) due to his role in the trial of King Charles I [as legal adviser to the High Court of Justice, he helped to draw up the charges against Charles I]. |
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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[London :
s.n.],
Printed in the Yeare. 1649.
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Notes: | This item is held in the Department of Ephemera. Physical description: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 1o. Citations/References: Wing (2nd ed.), S461 more |