MERCURIUS PRAGMATICUS, London, Nov. 14, 1648  The full title as printed in the masthead includes: "Communicating Intelligence from all Parts, Touching all Affaires, Designes, Humors, and Conditions throughout the Kingdom. Especially from Westminster and the Head-Quarters."
This was one of several "newsbooks", the predecessors of today's newspaper, which existed some years before the "London Gazette". It was published during the Britian Civil War by Marchmont Needam.
As noted in Wikipedia: "A "highly productive propagandist," (Needham) was significant in the evolution of early English journalism, and has been strikingly (if hyperbolically) called the "press agent" of Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell...When Needham again attacked the king in print...he was sent to the Fleet prison for two weeks for seditious libel. Upon his release he was banned from publishing but probably authored some of the many anonymous pamphlets around at the time. Reportedly Nedham obtained an audience with King Charles I, and gained a royal pardon. He thereafter printed a Royalist periodical, the Mercurius Pragmaticus, starting in September 1647 and continuing for two years. It was "one of the wittier and less ephemeral" of the "Cavalier weeklies".
The front page includes a poem which mentions in part: "...Our CHARLES should be no King of thine, Or but a King of Clouts...". The contents have so much more on the English Civil War.
Complete in 12 pages. Several pages are a bit close-trimmed causing some shaving of letters at margins. See the photos for specifics. Otherwise measuring 5 1/2 by 7 1/4 inches and in nice condition with light dirtiness to the back page only.