THE Containing an Impartial RELATION OF ALL TRANSACTIONS, VOLUME II For the Year 1717 Publif'd at the Expence of the Sun Fire-Office. LONDON, Printed and fold by H. MEERE in Black Fryers, 1718, N. B. This Title is defign'd for fuch Perfons as think fit to bind the Four laft Regifters in one Volume: And for the fame Reafon a Table is alfo added at the End of the Eighth Register, of the principal Matters contain'd in them. I ***************** THE Atorical Regifter. NUMBER V. A Lthough the four Regifters that were publish'd for the Year 1716, exceeded confiderably the Number of Sheets which the Company of the Sun FireOffice had promis'd to their Subfcribers, we were nevertheless constraid, for Want of Room, to omit severel material domeftick Occurrences, of which, d to the Time wherein they happen'd, we ought taken Notice; particularly the Proceedings against els (excepting those who were impeach'd by Parof whom we have fpoken in the fecond and egifters) that furrender'd themselves at Prefton; ore we think fit to go a little back in point of and begin this Regifter with a Relation of , The Tryals of the Preston-Prisoners, E firft of thofe Gentlemen who felt the fad Effects f that unhappy Enterprize, were the Lord Charles , one of the younger Sons of the Duke of Athel, Nairne, and Captain Lokart, both of the late Ret of the Lord Mark Kerr, Captain Shaftoe of Co |