1648. Sep. 9th. Lord Fairfax marched into Yarmouth, and the town was converted into a garrison. Three men-of-war ships sent to convoy the fishers and guard the coast. The Burgesses raised 600 foot and 50 horse soldiers, in lieu of having other forces marched into the town to do garrison duty. 1649. Four Aldermen and 16 Common Councillors resigned office in the Corporation; 6 were afterwards reinstated. 1650. The Puritans removed a fine old organ from St. Nicholas’ Church. The Presbyterians made a doorway in the north wall of the Parish Church, and opened the north aisle of the chancel for public worship. 1651. Up to this date prayer was always used before the commencement of public business. 1652. Admiral Blake sent several ships to Yarmouth, which he had captured from the Dutch. Dr. Thomes Soame died. He was the son of a fisherman at Yarmouth, but related to a wealthy family of the same name at Burnham. He lived in the reign of Charles I., and having entered holy orders he became minister of Staines in Middlesex, and Prebendary of Windsor. During the civil wars he was so zealously attached to Royalty that he sent all he had to the King, so that when the rebels came to plunder him he had nothing, for which he was imprisoned, first in Newgate, and afterwards in the Fleet Prison, where he died. 1653. June 6th. Yarmouth sent 5 members to the “Little” Parliament summoned by Cromwell. Resigned Dec. 12th. Aug. 29th. General Monk granted a warrant to free Yarmouth fishermen from being pressed into the service of the State. Lord Henry, youngest son of Oliver Cromwell, High Steward of the Borough. 1653–4. Norfolk sent ten members to Parliament. 1654. Dec. 16th. Oliver Cromwell proclaimed in the Market Place Protector of the Commonwealth of the United Kingdom. Colonel William Goffe and Thomas Dunne, Esq., were elected Burgesses to Parliament by 3 Aldermen and 26 Common Councilmen. 1656. William Burton and C. G. Cock, Esqs., elected to Parliament. 1659. W. Burton and C. G. Cock, Esqs., re-elected to Parliament. Yarmouth people sent to Southwold 30 coombs of wheat and 10 coombs of rye for the sufferers from a fire which consumed the greater part of that town. 1660. Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, High Steward of the Borough. A “Healing Parliament” called, and Sir J. Palgrave, Bart., and Miles Corbet, Esq., elected. 1661. Sir William D’Oyley, Bart., and Sir W. Coventry, Bart., Secretary to the Admiralty, returned to Parliament. 1662. Contention and bloodshed through concurrent jurisdiction ceased, when the Cinque Ports dissolved government with Yarmouth. Dec. 10th. James Smith was fined £10 for saying of Sir Thomas Medowe, a Bailiff, “He is a fool, and I have killed a bull of 80s. that had better brains than Sir Thomas have.” 1664. Jan. 22nd. Rev. John Brinsley, sen., lecturer in Yarmouth, died, aged 64.