An outgrowth of the early six-man rokuninshū ( 1633 – 1649 ), the office took its name and final form in 1662, but with four members.

These livings ended under the Commonwealth ( 1649 – 1660 ), when he was turned out of office to become chaplain to the Duke of Devonshire.

Thomas Cushman became Ruling Elder of the Plymouth Church in 1649, and remained in that office forty-two years until his death in 1691.

He supported the " Engagement " for the King's rescue in 1648, and was consequently deprived of his office as Keeper of the Privy Seal in 1649.

He was also deprived of his office by the Act of Classes, the decree against him being sealed on 10 March 1649.

Following the execution of Charles I in 1649 and the establishment of the Commonwealth under Lord Protector Cromwell, it would not be reinstated until shortly after the restoration of the monarchy to England.

It was also used on the Commonwealth Jack of Oliver Cromwell, issued in 1649 and on the Protectorate Jack issued in 1658 as well as on the Lord Protector's Standard issued on the succession of Richard Cromwell in 1658.

Gerrard Winstanley, who was part of the radical Diggers movement in England, wrote in his 1649 pamphlet, The New Law of Righteousness, that there " shall be no buying or selling, no fairs nor markets, but the whole earth shall be a common treasury for every man ," and " there shall be none Lord over others, but every one shall be a Lord of himself.

The concept of wage slavery could conceivably be traced back to pre-capitalist figures like Gerrard Winstanley from the radical Christian Diggers movement in England, who wrote in his 1649 pamphlet, The New Law of Righteousness, that there " shall be no buying or selling, no fairs nor markets, but the whole earth shall be a common treasury for every man ," and " there shall be none Lord over others, but every one shall be a Lord of himself.

In 1649, Lord Baltimore, with the Maryland General Assembly, passed the Maryland Toleration Act, which provided religious freedom for any ( Christian ) sect, and which was the first law of its kind in the New World.

Rosegill Estate, a Middlesex County plantation first constructed in 1649, served as the temporary seat of the colony under two royal Governors of Virginia, ( Sir Henry Chicheley, who served under Thomas Culpeper, 2nd Baron Culpeper of Thoresway, and Lord Francis Howard, 5th Baron Howard of Effingham ).

He also published A True Relation of the unjust accusation of certain French gentlemen ( 1671 ), an account of Holles's intercession on their behalf and of his dispute with Lord Chief Justice Keeling ; and he left Memoirs, written in exile in 1649, and dedicated " to the unparalleled Couple, Mr Oliver St John ... and Mr Oliver Cromwell ..." published in 1699 and reprinted in Baron Maseres's Select Tracts relating to the Civil Wars, I.

* To His Excellency the Lord Fairfax and the Counsell of Warre the Brotherly Request of those that are called Diggers sheweth ( December 1649 ), John Heyman, An.

* To My Lord Generall and his Councell of Warr ( December 8, 1649 ), Gerrard Winstanley ( in The Clarke Papers volume 2, )

** Duarte of Bragança ( 1605 – 1649 ), Lord of Vila do Conde

In 1649 Gustav unsuccessfully sought the position of Lord High Admiral in succession to Carl Carlsson Gyllenhielm, an illegitimate son of his grandfather King Charles IX.

At the end of the 17th century Antiguan political opponents of Eliza's grandfather, John Lucas, believed that the Lucas family had powerful influence in London through Henry Grey ( 1664 – 1740 ), later Duke of Kent, a senior member of Queen Anne's government and Robert Lucas, 3rd Lord Lucas ( 1649 – 1705 ), then governor of the Tower of London.

Lord Huntly was a supporter of King Charles I during the Civil War and was beheaded by the Parliamentarians in 1649, with his titles forfeited.

On Lord Huntly's death in 1649 his remaining titles passed to his eldest son, the third Marquess.

** Henry Hastings, Lord Hastings ( 1630 – 1649 )

* Patrick Murray, 1st Lord Elibank ( d. 1649 )

* John Elphinstone, 8th Lord Elphinstone ( 1649 – 1718 )

He was the husband of Mary, daughter of Thomas Foote, Lord Mayor of London in 1649, who had been created a Baronet in 1660 ( a title which became extinct on his death in 1687 ).

* John Sandilands, 5th Lord Torphichen ( 1625 – 1649 )

* Donald Mackay, 1st Lord Reay ( 1591 – 1649 )

As a result, her arrest was ordered on 21 March 1649, and she was imprisoned in the Tower of London, where she maintained a correspondence in code with the king through her brother, Lord Percy, until Charles went to Scotland.

In 1649 – 50 he edited a volume of elegies, titled Lachrymae Musarum, on the death of Henry, Lord Hastings.

At his trial in front of The High Court of Justice on Saturday 20 January 1649 in Westminster Hall, Charles asked " I would know by what power I am called hither.

* Full text of the Act erecting a High Court of Justice for the Trial of Charles I January 6, 1649

* Full text of the Sentence of the High Court of Justice upon the King, 27 January, 1649

On 4 January 1649, the Commons passed an ordinance to set up a High Court of Justice to try Charles I for high treason in the name of the people of England.

Nevertheless, he was willing to work with the new regime, accepting a commission as justice of the peace for Wiltshire and Dorset in February 1649 and acting as High Sheriff of Wiltshire for 1647.

* 1649 trial of Charles I of England ( by the High Court of Justice for the trial of Charles I )

* 20 January 1649, The trial of Charles I of England by the High Court of Justice begins

Horton was a commissioner of the High Court of Justice in 1649, and thus was among those who signed the warrant for the execution of King Charles I of England.

In January 1649, as a judge of the High Court of Justice at the trial of King Charles, he was 40th of the 59 signatories on the death warrant of the King.

In January 1649, as a commissioner of the High Court of Justice at the trial of King Charles, he was 53rd of the 59 signatories on the death warrant of the King.

In January 1649, Pembroke was appointed to the High Court of Justice established by the Rump Parliament to try Charles I on charges of high treason.

In 1649, appointed to the High Court of Justice at the trial of King Charles, he was one of the signatories of the King's death warrant.

In January 1649, Penington was appointed a commissioner of the High Court of Justice at the trial of King Charles, but he was not one of the signatories of the King's death warrant.

* Sir Henry Gough, Knt ( 1649 – 1724 ), of Perry Hall ; son of John Gough ( died 1665 ), matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, 1666 ; was a student at Middle Temple in 1667 ; elected as a Tory MP in Tamworth in 1685 ; became High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1671.

He was active in the legal proceedings against King Charles in 1649, sitting as a member of the High Court of Justice and signing the King's death warrant.

John Phelps was a Clerk and Registrar of the Committee for Plundered Ministers and of the High Court which tried Charles I of England for high treason in 1649.

In January 1649, as a commissioner of the High Court of Justice at the trial of King Charles, he was 20th of the 59 signatories on the death warrant of the King.