The Modest CAVALLIERES ADVICE: Together with a Letter to the Inhabitants of the Isle of wight, where his Sacred majesty Is now remaining.  
Printed in the year, 1647.   

The Modest Cavaliers Advice, together with a Letter to the Inhabitants of the Isle of wight, where His Sacred Majesty is now remaining,  
I Shall present this little Pamphlet unto your view, in this doubtful and dangerous time, not only to show you the dependency betwixt our King and kingdom; but also to comfort and strengthen you against all fears that are or may be interjected by the subtlety and malice of our Adversaries, or our own misconceit or diffidence; for as I find the enemy busily practising to discourage us, and to raise false fires to affright us, so we ourselves (as melancholy persons) are apt to misconstrue all things, and to imagine the worst, upon the sight of every shadow; there are many that labour to effect a division betwixt us, by offering fair resemblances, and great promises of preferments, but I trust the general disposition of an honest hearted Cavalier is not to waver, that is to simile those persons which are light of love, who desire to shift their old approved friends for fresh suitors, and prefer the change of an adulterous bed, before the married; if any there be which by chance may be allured by this strumpet of the night, I verily believe in the morning their eyes will be enlightened, and take it to be but a fit or throw of passion, which will be easily cast off with more loathing and detestation, than it was pursued with longing: I write not this to detect any of unconstancy; but only to stand as a sentinel, or Watchman to give warning at the coming of so many blood thirsty deceivers: And for the State itself (I mean that main axletree whereon our kingdom turns) which is the sincerity of our King to his friends, I do assure myself it is the same it was, and that we only move whilst he remains constant; many may imagine otherwise as simple Passengers sailing swiftly by the shores, or continent, suppose the Trees, Steeples, and Towers to go backwards: Let us not be distracted and affrighted with our own shadows; ignorance makes us infidels; lo we are brethren, yet I must confess that Brethren oftentimes wax suspicious each of other; but let us agree, for suspicion raiseth rumours, and those rumours, though false, may in time beget and nourish a dangerous hate betwixt us; that which I write may make us more confident of each others love, or at least shall have that effect in us, until we behold the issue, which I hope at the last will be happy: The Bell rings out, and I hear the sound and report it gives on both sides; upon the Parliament side all men fear the passages, and carriages of all things, and considering these things, are very liberal and free in their discourses, and making their fears great, as indeed the cause requires: On the other side, some shallow brained traitors are doubtful of the King, and being filled with mad jealousies and fears, prosecute his Majesty with all kind of Calumny: Reproaches, and Pasquil's are day by day invented, huancries countenanced, and the inventors of them rewarded; base libels and scandals are cast abroad thick and threefold, one upon the neck of another, wherein not only the King, Queen, and all their royal Progeny; but also all his majesty's loyal Subjects are very basely abused: This comforts me, and assures me that they persecute none of their own, and therefore behold his Majesty, and all that love him to be their utter enemies.  
Thieves and traitors have always a knawing in their consciences, and as the Phrase is, simile, simile gaudent, they can't endure any that displays their plots, and will not be Adjutators in these bloody designs: Let this assure us, that his majesty is the s●me we would have him, but for my own part I comfort myself especially, and desire you would be comforted against all fears or plots laid or plotted against us out of two considerations. First, the goodness and mercy of our God. Secondly, the wisdom and policy of our King. First, let us consider we have a good and glorious God watching over us, who will not suffer his truth to be extinguished, but as he hath hitherto miraculously preserved it, so still he will continue to do the same: The Lord visits the transgressions of his children with the rod, yet will he not utterly take his mercy from them, nor suffer his truth to fail: Let us then rest in peace, for he that keepeth us doth neither slumber nor sleep, and let the remembrance of those many former deliverances, which he hath wrought for us, assure us of the like fatherly care and protection still, if we faithfully and constantly depend upon his merciful promise. Secondly, remember the wisdom of our King, which is so renowned, as for it, he is admired of all, and let this comfort us, and assure us that God hath not given him so much light for nothing, much less for evil: Let us think that since he hath been served by us with so much obedience, that he will so much neglect his own honour and safety, or our lives and liberties, as to leave us in the hands of our enemies, or abase us in the eyes of rebels, to lead us, or suffer us to be led into temporal or spiritual captivity: Let us think always, he cannot forget those rebellious persons which have fought several times against him; nor yet the many attempts and practices which they have used against his Person, crown, Dignity, and the truth he professeth, nor that God will suffer him to sleep securely in the arms of such, as he knows watch only for opportunity to destroy both Church and State, as also him and his: Our love to his royal Progeny must needs assure our love to him, and the hate of others to them, assure their inward hate against him; and for such as persuade otherwise, that our love to the King, or his children, and hate to the adverse Party, proceeds either out of discontent, or a vain humour in us leading to disloyalty; let their lies turn upon their own pates, and let evil happen to them that evil think; there are subtle enemies which labour to breed jealousies betwixt him and his Subjects, knowing it to be for their greatest advantage, and the only, and chiefest plot to blemish and cloud the glory and magnificence of Monarchy, they would alienate the heart of the King from his people, the people from the King, and friends from each other; yet think, it cannot sink into his majesty's breast that such friends and servants, who have not only spent and lost their estates, but hazarded their lives daily and hourly, should intend the least hurt to him who is the defender of their faith; it is for Turks and Heathens to become bloody traitors, and it is for Tyrants to suspect their friends: Good Princes who are Fathers of the commonwealth, cannot nor will not do thus, whilst in themselves they see no cause of their subjects hate; it is our enemy's plot to stir up our heady and hasty humours, by pulling our quills, and racking our Estates, and so by degrees draw us clean off from that former affection we bore to our sovereign; Let me tell you, Conscientia mille testes, and for my part, I had rather go to heaven with a few, then to hell with a multitude. His Majesty cannot but see the actions of the public enemy, as well as we, and much better; and therefore though you suffer with him for a while, yet be you quiet, that their intents and projects upon you may be frustrate: think now, the King is making his own Chronicle; and assure yourselves, that though he hath some imperfection in his speech, yet he means speedily with his pen, or at leastwise, he can answer all their Propositions with a non placet, but what need I speak more? He that can answer so well, will never so far contradict his own words with repugnant actions, as thereby to raze his Armies, to stain the honour he was borne unto, and which he hath made good and bettered hitherto, by high and mighty enterprises of act and admonition against so many perfidious Members; but think therefore, that all this time, he is acting his part in Insula Vectis, that he hath a better game to play, that he is working his master piece in the public market, and trying his exact skill in King craft, with the Hogle Mogle Parliament of England, and the Grand Committee of Lords and Commons: The lion may awake, break loose, and tear his Keepers or else lead, whilst he seems to be led, and then the world shall see, that neither the opinion of his sincerity in the truth, nor of his unmatchless wisdom and policy, were vain mistakings, and at last our David find a means to overthrow these crafty Achitophel's; then the Church shall triumph, and be comforted, the commonwealth flourish, his honour shall be eternised; neither shall you repent of your patience, or of your sufferings, nor I of my pains or persuasions to this end, wherein I rest satisfied with an assurance of his majesty's favourable eye towards all his loving subjects, as also God's gracious mercies herein, and that we shall see our desire upon our enemies, which is a condign punishment upon those who have assisted rebels against so loving and gracious a Prince.   

To the loyal Inhabitants of the Isle of Wight.  
The distance of places are not so far, but that you may easily hear and perceive the divisions which are amongst us; for since the King's departure, the Parliament men are ready to run besides themselves, as also when it was night there was no small stir among the Soldiers, what was become of Peter, since it was verified that an angel of the Lord hath delivered him out of the hands of these Herod's (who the next day thought to have killed him) and hath sent him unto you: I shall entreat you loving Countrymen, not to be astonished or amazed, but entertain him as a loving and gracious Prince, observe his commands punctually, you have time by the foretop, make use of it, for in the end you will find it chronicled, and your eye shall see it, your everlasting praise: Religion hath taken a seven years' voyage, and we hope may happily arrive at one of your Ports; the rebels here, go on presumptuously in their constant course, in taking part with the Serpent against the seed of the Woman; and still desire to be known fierce persecutors of all true hearted royalists: Liberty of life they have voted only to themselves, and through the great title of a Parliament, think to prescribe laws to all Christendom; no man that doth evil, can ever hope to hear well from any but cowards or flatterers; and for those they have enough, witness the innumerable Committee men, and those honourable Gentlemen belonging to the Excise: I never think upon these caterpillars and Locusts, but they stir up a sad humour, sighs from my very heart, and tears from my eyes for the destruction they are like suddenly to bring upon this kingdom, unless the Lord (out of his great mercy) sends us a strong Easterly wind and blow them to Tyburn. I have read a story of a lion, who seemingly slept securely in his Den whilst the Hunters were pitching coil's round about him; a Pismire perceived the danger, and stung the lion to awake him, with Tandem resurges, he futiously start up, and would wreak his anger upon the presumptuous Pismire; to whom the Pismire cried, My Lord, first look about you; he did so, and espying the snares of the Hunters, escaped them: I leave the Reader to make application. O abominable Treason, is this the way to make him a glorious King: O Lord incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity, especially against the Lord's anointed; the Lord I hope will keep him from all the snares which they have privily laid for him: Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst (He being guiltless) shall escape: save Lord, let the King of Kings hear us when we call, and let all good people say, Amen.  
CHARLES G.  
FINIS.