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190 THE IRISH BUILDER. July 15, 1888. Rev. Richard Cooke, of Ballyneale, b. 1778, d.

November, 1839, wi. 27 October, 1808, Harriet (. 8 February. 1866), eldest dnu. of Arthur French, of Inntield, County Roscommon, and sister of Lucy, Countess of Carrick, mniher of the present Karl, and had 3 sons and 3 duns.

I. John Arthur, of llallvneale, b. 6 June, 1812, d. unm. 8 Dec.

1870. II. Richard, now of Ballyneale, J.P., Co. Kilkenny, High Sheriff Co. Longford, 1881, 1815, in.

1840, dau. of Magniac, and has issue duns. III. Somerset, 4. 1820, 1835.

1. Harriet, in. Major White. 2. Frances Barbara, m.

1830, Henry Smvthe, of Newtown, Co. Louth. 3. Anne, d. 28 October, 18G8, m.

14 1807, Lane 15. Magniac, late Capt. 101st Bengal Fusiliers. Arms On. a chevron betw.

3 crescents, or within a bordnre erm. a canton of the 2nd. Crtst. deiui griffin segreant. Hullo.

Sic itur ad astra. G.B.D. 1544. NicnoLAs Miacu appears as rrcben-dary in this year. Ho is nominated by the Crown 18 135, on the restoration of St.

Patrick's Cathedral, to the Prebend of Jlalahidert Morriu, 329, and in 1555 he appears as auditor of the accounts of the Proctor or Economist of that Cathedral. A lease dated 4 March, 30 Henry is Riven to him by the Bp. of Kildare and in 39 Hen. Villi, the tithes of the prebend of St. Audoen's are teased to him for the yearly rent of 20 shilling.

For the name yearly rent they are leased to him in 1 Kdw. VI. for 21 years. With others he signs a lease 4 July, 1557. Morrin's Chancery Kolls, Ireland, p.

115. 1551. Robert Iai.t is nominated Prebendary by the Crown, 18 February, on the restoration of St. Patrick's Cathedral. Morrin, 329.

In 15C1 he was appointed to the prebend of Clonmethan, holding the vicarage of Swords. He had been educated nt Paris, and in 1504 he was nominated Bp. of Kii.d.ike by Queen's letter dated 16 April, and by patent dated 2 May, in which month he was consecrated. Cotton, 142 He bad been well commended to Queen Kiizabeth for his good nume and honest living, and the rather because he was well able to preach in the Irish tongue. He held his Bishopric for above IS years, during which time lie was plundered and ill-treated by lie rebels.

He held his prebend of Clonmethan in eommrndam until Lis death, which took place in the winter of 1582. 15G5. Jons Allen appears ns Prebendary, having been collated on December in this year. He bad licence of absence for c-even years, and a faculty to hold with this prebeud the vicarages of Lsracor and Culmullin (near Dunboynel, in the Diocese of Meatb, and the vicarage of Kill, in the Diocese of Kildare, during his life, and he bad licence to change them for others. In 1509 he was still prebendary, his name occurring in the visitation of that year.

1581. Hamlet Saskey, m.a., appea-s, his name occurring as that of witness to a los-e from the Dean and Chapter of St. Patrick's. He was the third t. of John Sankey, of F.desborongh, Bucks, originally of Lancashire, who was the first of his faiuilr to settle in Ireland.

about 1502, ut Sankrystown, King's County. (Cotton, v. 117, 211, 242.) We cannot, however, hud an in Bucks, although we tind both EJdlrsborintjh and t'JUsburnit'jh in that county, nor can we tind any townland of fsftnkftjAttmn in Ireland. The late Matthew H. Sankey, J.

of Brookehoroiigh, informed us that he knew nothing of the Rev. Hamlet Sankey, and that of his own line the first who came to Ireland was Sir Hierome Saukey, in 1019. A VALUER OF LA.nD AND A COUNTY COURT JUDGE. At the Newry Quarter Sessions on the 80th the Comity Court Judge for Down had before him a case (adjourned from previous sessions) in order to have a valuation made by a court vainer. The farm is one of 7a.

2r. and is held under an agreement dated 19th January, 1883, at a yearly rent of i.12. The valuer put down i'G 15s. Gd. as the fair rent" to be paid.

On this the Judge made the following remarks Under these circumstances, I feel that I have no alternative hut to declare the value of the farm to be that which the valuer bas found bv his report i'6 15s. Gd. How- i ever, 1 cannot help saying that the evidence brook, Co. Wicklow, M.P. for Philips-town, 1727, till his death, 1737 m.

1702, Jane, dnu. of Colonel Richard Forster, younger sister of Klizahtth. wife of John Cooke, of Cookesborougn, M.P.) John; Charles; Anne; and Mary. 3. Mary, m.

Longford. 4. Jane, in. William Leeson, and bad issne a Anne, bujd. in St.

Audoln's, 6 April, 1085. John Cooke, of Cookesborongh, County Westmeath, h. 1050, d. 1 October, 1733. M.P.

County Westmeath, 1707-13 in. 1092, Kiizabeth, eldest dim. of Colonel Richard Forster, of Pimlico, Dublin (sister of Right Hon. John Forster, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and Right Rev. Nicholas Forster, Lord Bishop of Raphoe), and had 3 sons and 10 dims.

I. Robert, his heir, of whom presently. II. Rii'IiAKD, of whom hereafter. III.

John, b. 1705. d. it m. 1772.

He settled in Dublin, and was Sheriff in 1747 8, Alderman, and Lord Mayor, 1751-2. 1. Anne, 4. 1003, w. Bolton.

2. Kiizabeth, b. 1694, 1720, Arthur Reynell, of Castle Reynell, Co. Westmeath. 3.

Dorcas, b. 1095. m. Richard Reynell, of Killagh. Co.

Westmeath, Cant, in the tireeu Horse. 4. Cassandra, A. 1696, n. 1715, Rev.

Richard Daniel, Dean of Down. 5. Jane, b. 1007, tit. 1719 (her cousin) James Nugent, of Clonlost, County Westmeath.

C.Mary, b. 1099, w. 1st. William Hudson, of Tnitestowu, Co. Westmeath Kdward L'Kstrange, of Boards-town, in the same county.

7. Rebecca. 4. 1701, m. Hobert Vicars, of Grant-town, Queen's Co.

8. Martha, 1702, d. uniii. 9. Frances, 4.

17o4, 1st, Lucas; 2ndly, Nugent, of White Hall, County of Dublin. 10. Kleanor, b. 1707, ui. Nathaniel Lucas.

TtnRi RT Cooke, of Cookesborongh, b. 1098, 1780; High Sheriff County Westmeath, 1713 ui. 1745. Mary (.. 170.li, 'dun.

of Robert Sauilford, M.P. for Boyle 1715-27, by Lady Henrietta O'Brien, bis wife, diu.oi William, Karl of lucbiquiu, and bad a son and a del a. I. BonEKT. his heir.

1. Kiizabeth, 4. 1750. m. 28 April, 1772, Thomas Pardon I 1 of Huntingdon, Co.

Westmeath. Robert Cooke, of Cookesborongh, 1752, 7. 3 April. 135, llili Sheriff Co. We-tmeath in.

Maria id. I832i. 4th dan. of Morley Saunders, of Saunders' (rrove, Co. Wicklow, by Lady M.irtiia Stratford, his wife, 2nd o.

of John, 1st Karl of Aldborough, and had 3 sons I. Rol.i it, A. 1786, 1823. 11. Alfied, 1791.

He ent. red the R.N., and was drowned with the entire of the crew of the Saldanha" in a suow-storm in Lough Swilly, HI 1. III. Anoi.ioirs, of Cookesborongh, 1792, (. tin in.

29 March, 1870 served in the lViiiifiihir War. On his death the senior line of thtj family became extinct. We now return to, iokk (2nd sou of John Cooke, M.P., of by bis wife, Kiizabeth orsteri. b. 1777, in.

25 February, 1713, Martha, younger dun. of Joseph Leeson, of Dublin, and sister of Joseph, 1-t I. ail of Milltonn, and hud two sons and a thin. I. John, his lu ir.

II. Joseph, b. 1715. 1. Klizabi.th, 4.

and 1748. Jons Cookk, of Biillvnrale, Co. Kilkenny, b. 1713, in. 28 July.

1771, Barbara, youngest llalph Smyth, of liarbavilla, County Westi.nath, and had a son and 2 dnu. I. Richard, his heir. 1. Frances.

2. BarbTa. upon which tins conclusion is arrived at is extremely unsatisfactory to my mind. Tho valuer says he bas examined each field, that there is verv little difference between one and another, and that they are fit for cropping or grazing but when I asked him bad ha i niaiie any estimate of the average amount of corn which the tillage portion of the farm would produce, or the number of cattle which the grazing portion of the farm would feed, I ronld get no information on the subject and when I askd whether he bud made any etimate of the total produce which the farm could yield, or whether he had ascertained the difference of prices of atock or crops in the year 1880, when this farm was taken by the tenant, and the prices of stock and crop at the time he examined the farm, he told me he did not go into the question of prices of stock or crops at theso respective times, because he knew that 12 was always i an excessive rent for the farm. Again, ho was asked what would be the value of tho farm in the hands of the owner, and he could not tell.

Any person who has studied even the first principles of economy, rr who knows the proportion which rent should bear to produce, umst surely wonder how any valuer could attempt to fix th fair rent of a farm without forming, at all events, somo proximate estimate of the whole produce which the farm was capable of yielding, whether in the hands of ownc or tenant. During the argument in this case my attention was called by Mr. Young to the instructions lately issued by Laud Commissioners to tho Sub-Commissioners, with a view to secure a more careful inspection of the farms and fuller information to enable the Land Commissioners to form a jut 1 estimate of the value of the holdings for which they are to fix fair rents. I was very glad to ace those ili-ti iictiuiiH, for no doubt they are a step in the right direction but oiiu naturally regrets that a valuation of a large proportion of the agricultural land in Ireland has been tarried out for seven years under the Laud Act of 1881 without some FAMILY OF COOKE. This family came from Worcestershire, and settled in Wotweuth, temp.

Charles II. Captain Robkrt Cookk. of "Moygtilliu" (afterwards called County Westmeath, had three grants of land in that county, and was twice High Sheriff in 1071-2 and 1083-4. He was bur. in St.

Ai dokn's. 8 Angnst, 1001. In bis will, dated 1 August, 1G91, he mentions 20 ster. due to me by bond from Mr. Nicholas Jones." iSce Family of Jones, Irish Biii.dkk, 15 1888.) He m.

Atne and bad 2 sons and 4 dans. I. John, hia heir. II. Robert.

1, Anne, m. James Nugent, of Clonlost, Co. Westmeath, and had issue. 2. Kleanor, i.

Charles Adair, bur. in St. Al'DOEN's, 24 April, and bail issue 3 sons and 2 thus. Robert (of Holly-.