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Excerpt from The Historical Register, Containing an Impartial Relation of All Transactions, Foreign and Domestick, Vol. 2: For the Year 1717
Major Naifaé, aild' Cami lath; bath df. The livere tgiewn if the Lozd. Mark Kerr, Captain Mn oil q A Onelonel Frank's late Regiment, and Enn Erskine of Pre ?on's Regiment, who were try'd for Defertion by a Court Martial that fate at Prejlon on the 28th of November 1715, found guilty, and fentenc'd to belbor to Death The Lord Charles Murray Was repriev'd during Pleafure but the Other four were executed, according to their Sentence, on the fecond of December. They all dy'd very undaunt edly in the Communion of the Church of England, and faid their chief Defign in engaging theml'elves in the Eh terprize for which they fu?'er'd, has to preferve that Church 'which they believ'd tio be in Danger.' There was likewife try'd a fixth Ofiicer, viz. Enfign Ddlziel of Ork tiefs Regiment, who making it appear that he had thrown up his Commi?id'n fome Time before he had engag'd in the Rebellion, was acquitted as to the Crime of Defertion, df which alone th'e court-martial could take Cogni zance.
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