but was not prominent in the proceedings themselves. Official of Commonwealth In 1648 he became Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, and was sent on a diplomatic errand to the states general of Holland, which was accused of having profited from England's civil war. Dorislaus did not live to see the First Anglo-Dutch War in which the Puritan regime of Cromwell fought its fellow Protestant power over commercial rivalries. While negotiating as a representative of the Commonwealth in the Dutch Republic, he was murdered at the Hague by a group of Royalists led by Walter Whitford, largely because of his role in the trial of Charles I. The assassination caused dismay among Cromwell's associates and great jubilation among royalists. His death also strained relations with the Dutch, who the English Government accused of allowing Whitford to escape. In truth Whitford had escaped to the Spanish Netherlands with the help of the Portuguese Ambassador, which would have made any attempt by the Dutch to catch him almost impossible. His remains were buried in Westminster Abbey, and moved in 1661 to St. Margaret's churchyard. His death may have loosely inspired the short story Gentlemen of the Sealed Knot by Geoffrey Trease, about an unsuccessful Royalist attempt to assassinate the English ambassador to the Netherlands. See also List of regicides of Charles I List of unsolved murders References 1595 births 1649 deaths Burials at St Margaret's, Westminster 17th-century Dutch diplomats Lawyers from The Hague Male murder victims People from Alkmaar Regicides of Charles I Unsolved murders in the Netherlands