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.