The Cavaliers DIURNAL written by Adventure, Most perfectly collected (peradventure) For any man's Reading, that will Venture.  

GReat Matters and Businesses of State being obscured from mine eyes, kept from mine ears, and hid from my understanding and knowledge, by which means I am incapable of all such things as I am ignorant of, which makes me unwilling to follow the fashion of the Writers of these Weekly times, either to wander in a wit-wooll-gathering way of Newes-catching every day abroad, or to study the Art of making Intelligences at home; therefore such Mercurial Informations which I relate, I do verily believe the Readers may believe (if they will:) Howsoever, I now not yet much out of the common Road of our perpetual Diurnall-Mongers; for (as they have showed me the way) a long tedious Preamble is a great help to fill and stuff out a short sheet of Paper: for which Causes aforesaid, I will be as Moderate in my Intelligence, as Perfect in my Occurrences, and as True in my Diurnal, according to that Moderation, Perfection, and Truth, which appertains to this following Narration.   

THis day the best and good News from his Majesty is, that he is in good health (which God continue) yet he is not well pleased with the Troubles and Perturbations of his People and Kingdoms: It is to be unfeignedly desired of all good and true Christians, English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, French, or any loyall-hearted subject whatsoever, that there were (or may be) a Right Understanding, Accommodation, and true Reconciliation betwixt his Majesty and the High Court of Parliament. It is thought, that his Majesty's next Remove will be from Holmby; but when, or to which of his Houses, is to me unknown: His poor servants do not care how near, or how soon his Majesty comes; I mean, many who are aged, and in extreme want, who have not any means of subsistence; such as have, according to their Oaths and Duties, attended on his Majesty's Person; and such, indeed, as never bare Arms in these unnatural Distractions; such as are Friendless, Moneyless, harbourless, and Helpless; and such as may be easily known by their bare Attire and thin Faces.  
It was certified, that this day there were divers people scattered in most parts of his Majesty's Dominions, who do detest the name of Peace, but da●e not look War in the face: it is thought meet to put all such in the front of an Army, that by the adventurous brunt and shock of a Battle their Valours may be tried. It is expected, that Nabal hath more wit then foolishly to ask, who is David? Nor will Shimei bark so loud as he did once, and too often; Libertinism shall no more be nicknamed, and called Christian Liberty; Want and Wantonness do seldom harbour in any one person: but it is concluded, that Detraction and Sedition are not so inseparable, but that the one treads upon the others heels.  
News came, that Abington Fair was this year on their Weekly Market-day, Monday, the eighth of March; where (amongst many rich Commodities, of Rattles, Hobby-horses, Knights and Kings of Gingerbread, and such Rarities of Art and Nature) there were Pamphlets of small price and less worth; some Reverend Ballads, with some Grave Volumes of Astronomical Predictions, such as Erra Pater, Adam Foulweather, and such like. There was one (with the rest) a nameless Book and Author, which reported str●nge things, past, present, and to come: but as past things are gone, because we have little holdfast of any thing good for the present, I present you with the future. The said Book speaks of an ancient woman of Banbury, named Goodwife Quiet, the daughter of a Woollen-Baker in Coventry-Blue, at the Sign of the three Snowballs in warm Water: This woman was said to have a Wooden Stone at her Door, and a great Iron Peartree in her Backside; by these strange Marks and Signs she was known: Her Prophecies and Predictions foretell, That Peace would bring Plenty; That Hypocrites are Dissemblers; That Tyrants want Mercy; That Treachery shall wrong Truth; That one Thief shall hang another; That Dotage shall be turned back, and transformed to Nonage; That mean men shall be changed into men of Means, and that men of Means shall be strangely metamorphosed into mean men; That honest plain-dealing shall be in such plentiful abundance, that it shall go a begging up and down the Streets, and Charity be so cold, that she would be glad to be hanged in a Chimney Cornor; That Milk should not be as dear as Muscadine; and that by Geography and Geometry it might easily be proved, that if it were a mile from the bottom of Shooter's Hill to the top, then by true dimension and measure it was another mile from the top to the bottom. These Observations, with many others, are in the said dangerous Book, of which perhaps you may hear further relation in the next.  
This day it was reported by the Carrier (of Middleborough in Monmouthshire) that the Pope was turned Anabaptist or Brownist; but I wish the Brethren to beware how they trust him, for he speaks Latin (the Language of the Beast) and it is to be feared, that all the Rites and Ceremonies of the Romish Catholic Religion will not easily be swopt out of his Conscience.  
The Cardinal Bembus wrote to the Archbishop of Toledo, to signify unto him what grief there was in Rome for the inconstant wavering of his Holiness; the States of Italy are troubled with it, Poland is molested, France is disquiered; Bohemia, Hungaria, Austria, and many parts of Germany are doubtful, that old Sects and Heresies may rise, and new Schismatical Opinions breed; England is weary of them, and hearty desires, as they have one good God, so one good Religion, and one good King, Charles, who is the same we have and hope for.  
There is great hope that Ireland will be at Peace, before the Papists and Protestants do agree in matters of Faith; and that the Protestant true Subjects will lay down Arms, when the Romish Catholics shall lay down theirs: Howsoever, many of the Rebels there will be forced to live in Boggs, wear thinsoaled Brogues, and eat Shamracks, if they be not more obedient, and at peace amongst themselves the sooner. And by certain Letters from the Irish Rebels lately sent hither, they declare themselves to be resolved, That as long as they live, there shall be a greater number of Thiefs amongst them then of true men.  
I might (if I ought) and I could (if I would) relate how a great Sea-Horse was cast upon Dunsmore-Heath, with strange News in his fore-hoofe, on the near side; but because the Relation is grounded upon Uncertainties, and thereby I might abuse my Readers with Untruths (as many Occurrent Mercury makers have formerly done) I will Moderate my Intelligence, till such time as Time gives me more certain Notice.  
It was concluded this day, That what man soever that had not any Foe or Enemy, that every such person should assure himself to have no true friend; and that as Mischief is often painted over with a show of Good, or as a Wolf is like a Dog, so is a Flatterer so like a Friend, that a man must have a clear insight to see his inside.  
Also it was this day agreed, That because many humourous Sectaries cannot (or will not) frame their Opinions according to God's Word, therefore they will do what they can to frame God's Word according to their Opinions: Like as the Carpenters in the Isle of Lesbos, whose Rules and Squares were made of Lead, whereby they could bend the Rule as they pleased; so that if the Timber would not frame straight to be measured by the Rule, they had the Art to make the Rule crooked to the form of the Timber: so all the Papists, Heretics, and Sectaries, would make the Scriptures as a Lesbian Rule.  
This day news came, that the Foot-Post of Stepney was dead; and that after his decease, he desired one of the Churchwardens of Wapping to invite all the blind men and women in the P●●ish to see h●m buried in Christian Burial, with his head Northward, and his face downward: His Place is ●o● ye● disposed of.  
It was concluded by the 〈◊〉 of ma●y honest men, that Pamphleteers and 〈◊〉 were the firebrands of 〈…〉 you may sooner find a Beggar without 〈…〉 Diurnal without Lies: (I am afraid that this 〈◊〉 S●eet which you are now reading 〈…〉 in the fashion, that it wants impudence to say, Not Guilty) Howsoever, theirs and this may be cried in the Streets, and for want of wisdom they may be regarded. Amongst these walking Stationer's, (whose Authors wits have commonly but one Sheet to Lie in weekly) one of the best and most currant of these uncurrant Occurrences and Currantoes, is one Pig, I know not where he had his Intelligence, either from Aleppo or Mexico (for all the four Winds were his Messengers) he hath been eclipsed at least five quarters of a year, and in his room are sprung or sprouted out a swarm of Mercuries, with as many heads as Hydra, and as many varieties as words; such as, Mercurius Gallobelgicus, Britaunicus, Hibernicus, Aulicus, Diutinus, Caelicus, Aquaticus, Rusticus, Candidius, Civicus, Infernalis Hibernicalis, Post, and Mendacius, etc. It is the good pleasure of many honest men, that all the Mercuries may be sublimated and qualified with Fasting-Spettle; which is by interpretation, that for every malicious Lie they writ, they should fast one Meal: by which means, the number of them would either be thinner, (or look thin.)  
In the time of the Great Alexander, there lived an ignorant Poet named Cherrillus, who daily did write such Halting, Impotent, Lame, Ridiculous Lines (or Verses) that Alexander gave him a Pension, to make him forbear Writing. So it is thought convenient, that all our weekly Newes-making Mercury's mouths may be stopped or bunged up (with a Gravesend Toast) with some Competency, to eat and live upon; or else, if there be such a thing in England as the Good-Behaviour, it is convenient that they were all bound to it.   

And as concerning the truth of this my Diurnal, the Reader needs not make any question of it; for it will be quickly perceived by any man of Reason, that this which I have written is so like many of the former Author's Works (in this kind) as if they had been all whelps of one Litter, all made of purpose to no purpose, but to show, that we (Ink-Squitterers, and Weekly Teeming-Pamphleters) are fellows that can hear News, though our Ears were lost (for the Pillory doth not by't so often as the Rigour of the Law may inflict) for which Causes, it is desired that we had all done, before we were all undone.  
The News that's before written may be read without danger, and it is hoped (or expected) that no man of Judgement, Wit, or Reason, will trouble himself much in searching the Truth of it; The Author did not sneak and sculke in Westminster-Hall for his Intelligence, but it was brought home to him in his Chamber, from whence he hath sent it to you and your Grave Considerations.  
FINIS.