NOCTVRNALL occurrences OR, DEEDS OF darkness: COMMITTED, By the cavaliers in their rendezvous.  
Whereunto is conjoined, THE several POSTURES, used with their Whores and pimps; answering a book( not long since Prin●ed) to which is annexed, the Exercise of Souldiers; beginning with these words, roundheads stand to your arms.  
LONDON: Printed for E. Christopher. 1642.   

nocturnal Occurrences: OR, The Deeds of darkness.  
THe many injurious, words and vilifying scoffs which this many a dear day have been practised, to the abuse of the most impertinent and over-zealous Roundhead( of which Faction I am forced to profess myself a member) doth urge me( according to the divine inspiration of disorder) to return a brief expression of their hideous, detestable, inexorable, implacable, inveterate, incorrigible, damnable, confoundible, and abominable crimes; practised in this Age, amongst those malignant and bloud-sucking cannibals the Cabaleiroes, now dissembled in several parts of this kingdom; which when you shall hear by how much danger I have achieved the knowledge of it; you will admire him that hath been an honest Busi-body for the general 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 sign of the hoop and Windmill; betwixt Hawk and Bussard) over against the three Loggerheads, Shuttlecock-maker,( hearing the several tumults expressed in many Pamphlets concerning the Cabaleiroes, dissembled for the general conversion or particular confusion of this Nati●n) saddled me an horse, unknown to my wife and children, and rid privately to York, a place some sixscore mile from London, situate in the Northern parts of this iceland, where I had intelligence of those strange sort of people called the Cabaleiroes, whose name is more cause of quarrel for us then the people themselves; for if they loved or wished well to the Country, they would not aclowledge 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.  
unless thou return from being a Cabaleiro, and confided 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 satan 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 six more to carry up theirs: after I had sufficiently satisfied mine eye, and that the time grew late, the soldiers being quartered, I dogged the Commanders to a Tavern, and being secure in another room, saw their detestable and lascivious Exercise, in which they imitated the Postures of the Musket, containing thirty four Postures, which were then expressed to their pimps 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 plaster on the face, gave the word of Command; beginning thus.   

cavaliers stand to your arms.  
Now you must conceive that the Whore was the musket and March, the pimp the Rest, and the Cabaleiro the soldier  
Silence.  1. IF the Enemy come March with your Pi●●pe and Mistrisie shouldered. 2. If they be far off— Prepare your pimp. 3. If you fear an Overthrow— Slip your mistress, &c. 4. If you hope to overcome— Pease your Whore. 5. If the house be prepared— join 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— cock 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 whiteing lie dry on her face— Blow your whore. 12. If the Scouts be clear— Open your Whore. 13. when you have performed your intent Present your whore If it be not too late— Give fire. 15. After you have achieved 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 trial— clear 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 near you— Cast about your Whore. 24. When you walk— trail your pimp. 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 scouring stick. 28 It is the only way to— Shorten your scouring stick. 29 If she be faulty with another— ram your where. 30 For that cause you may— Withdraw your scouring stick. 31 Least in time she— Shorten your scouring stick But if she will stray no more— Return your scouring stick. 33 If you can gain her preferment-Bring forward your whore, 34 If you receive no conflict. Recover your pimp and Whore into your first Posture. 

For the Pike.  
If you led her home by dark Shoulder your Whore.  
If she be uncivil 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 party gain the better of you. Shoulder your Whore and march.   
Thus home to London marching with few fears,  
I have  told the Postures of the Cavaleirs.   
FINIS.