Noctvrnall occvrrences, or, Deeds of darknesse committed by the cavaleers in their rendevous whereunto is conjoyned the severall postures used with their whores and pimpes : answering a booke, not long since printed, to which is annexed the exercise of souldiers beginning with these words, round heads stand to your armes.

Nocturnall Occurrences : OR , The Deeds of Darknesse .

THe many injurious , words and villifying scoffes which this many a deare day have been practised , to the abuse of the most impertinent and over-zealous Roundhead ( of which Faction I am forced to professe my selfe a member ) doth urge me ( according to the divine inspiration of disorder ) to return a brief expression of their hideous , detestible , inexorable , implacable , inveterate , incorrigible , damnable , confoundible , and abhominable crimes ; practized in this Age , amongst those malignant and bloud-sucking Canibals the Cabaleiroes , now dissembled in severall parts of this Kingdome ; which when you shall hear by how much danger I have atchieved the knowledge of it ; you will admire him that hath been an honest Busi-body for the generall good of you , your Lives and Fortunes , Wives and Children , and make a prayer ( sans Privilegio ) for me , and my Successors .

The Relation .

IN the year Sixteen hundred forty and two , I Holofernes Holy-hawk , late of gra●ious-street at the signe of the Hoope and Windmill ; betwixt Hawk and Bussard ) over against the three Loggerheads , Shuttlecock-maker , ( hearing the severall tumults expressed in many Pamphlets concerning the Cabaleiroes , dissembled for the generall conversion or particular confusion of this Nati●n ) sadled me an horse , unknown to my wife and children , and rid privately to York , a place some sixscore mile from London , scituate in the Northern parts of this Island , where I had intelligence of those strange sort of people called the Cabaleiroes , whose name is more cause of quarrell for us then the people themselves ; for if they loved or wished well to the Country , they would not acknowledge such a name as the Country understands not . After , with much trouble , I had attained the City of York , upon which Mother Shipton prophesied a lasting Court for Kings , I perceived many of these Cabaleiroes richly deckd with long sh●g hair , reaching down to their heels , who were Commanders to a Troop of horse that were all armed in jet ; the Coronet bearing these words in the Banner , Damme we 'll win the day ; the Troope being at a stand , I began to remember a Text in the fourteenth Chapter of Susanna the fifteenth Verse , where as I take it , there is expressed these following words .

Vnlesse thou return from being a Cabaleiro , and confide with the Elect , thy punishment is not to be overcame by Law , but Power .

I was going to divide this Text into four parts , and they were so furious , I thought they would have divided me into forty , called me Roundhead , Prick-eare , Brownist , Separatist , Anabaptist , and a thousand things more then I durst stay to hear ; for two or three fellows were doing of their guns to shoot me , but by strange miracle , I escaped ; ●nd suddenly after met a foot Company , the Rank and File consisting of Men and Women ; which though they said nothing , was to me a greater assault then the first : for Sathan had so much prevailed , that I was like to alight and march with a woman that carried the Colours ( She painted ) but was presently put off by a Serjeants , wife that was Captain of the company , whose hair was of that large length , it was carried up by sixteen boyes , every boy having sixe more to carry up theirs : after I had sufficiently satisfied mine eye , and that the time grew late , the soldiers being quarter'd , I dog'd the Commanders to a Tavern , and being secure in another room , saw their detestible and lascivious Exercise , in which they imitated the Postures of the Musket , containing thirty four Postures , which were then expressed to their Pimpes and their Whores , and as I remember , they were on this manner :

An ugly shag-hair'd black fellow , with a flat nose , and a black Plaister on the face , gave the word of Command ; beginning thus .

Cavaleers stand to your Armes .

Now you must conceive that the Whore was the Musquet and March , the Pimpe the Rest , and the Cabaleiro the Souldier

Silence .

1. IF the Enemy come March with your Pi●●pe and Mistrisie shouldered . 2. If they be farre off — Prepare your Pimpe . 3. If you fear an Overthrow — Slip your Mistresse , &c. 4. If you hope to overcome — Pease your Whore . 5. If the house be prepared — Ioin your whore & Pimp together 6. When you are safe there — Take out your Whore . 7. If she be unwilling to fall — Blow your Where . 8. If you are well provided — Cocke your Whore . 9. If you have cause to doubt — Try your Whore . 10. If any come to interrupt you — Guard your Whore . 11. If the Whiting lye dry on her face — Blow your whore . 12. If the Scouts be cleer — Open your Whore . 13. when you have perform'd your intent Present your whore If it be not too late — Give fire . 15. After you have atchieved strength — Recover your whore . 16. But if another Cavaleir did lately — Uncock the wh●re . 17. It shall become your breeding to — Return the whore . 18. Ere you make further tryall — Cleere the Whore . 19. If she be not too old — Prime your Whore , 20. If you will keep her private — Shut your Whore . 21. If in a place that 's dusty — Blow your Whore . 22. If she be true to you — Cast off your loose Whores 23. If Authority come neer you — Cast about your Whore . 24. When you walke — Traile your Pimpe . 25 Make him swear he shall not — Open your Charge . 26. If she will be gadding — Charge your Whore . 27 If she provoke you — Draw out your scowring sticke . 28 It is the only way to — Shorten your scowring sticke . 29 If she be faulty with another — Ramme your where . 30 For that cause you may — Withdraw your scowring sticke . 31 Least in time she — Shorten your scowring sticke But if she will stray no more — Return your scowring stick . 33 If you can gain her preferment-Bring forward your whore , 34 If you receive no conflict . Recover your Pimpe and Whore into your first Posture .

For the Pike . If you lead her home by dark Shoulder your Whore . If she be uncivill in her lodging Order your Whore . If she admit of any Gallants Check your whore , Port your whore . Comport your whore . If you would make her known Report your whore . If you gain the Victory Advance your whore . But if the well affect Partie gain the better of you . Shoulder your Whore and march . Thus home to London marching with few Feares , I have told the Postures of the Cavaleirs .

FINIS .