Claims were still being made to the Committee in October 1658.

While the Seymours held Marlborough Castle for the King, the townsfolk had sided with Parliament during the Civil War and when this tragedy engulfed Marlborough, Oliver Cromwell (now Lord Protector of the republican Commonwealth) showed great sypathy for its plight. The puritans ordered a national collection to be made in all English and Welsh parish churches and it was distributed to claimants by a committee based in Saddler's Hall, London. Officially, the total losses of property and goods in the conflageration was put at £54,623.

John Evelyn, the diarist, visited the town and noted that it was ' now new built' in June of 1654 - fourteen months after the fire.

In 1679, fire swept through the town again, and again in 1690. The three conflagerations finally caused Parliament to act to alleviate the risk of recurring fires in the town by passing a statute to "prohibit the covering of houses and other buildings with thatch in the Town of Marlborough".