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 There is a connection to Cromwell's Puritans but not as may be expected. Captain Thomas Prior's wife was Elizabeth Fairfax, daughter of [[wp>Thomas_Fairfax,_1st_Lord_Fairfax_of_Cameron| Lord Fairfax of Cameron]], the commander of the Parliamentary Army in the [[wp>English_Civil_War|English Civil War]]. It was her second marriage. With his marriage, Captain Prior sided with the republican side in the English Civil War, but the more moderate faction. Consequently, he was deemed loyal to the monarchy after it was restored in 1660.  There is a connection to Cromwell's Puritans but not as may be expected. Captain Thomas Prior's wife was Elizabeth Fairfax, daughter of [[wp>Thomas_Fairfax,_1st_Lord_Fairfax_of_Cameron| Lord Fairfax of Cameron]], the commander of the Parliamentary Army in the [[wp>English_Civil_War|English Civil War]]. It was her second marriage. With his marriage, Captain Prior sided with the republican side in the English Civil War, but the more moderate faction. Consequently, he was deemed loyal to the monarchy after it was restored in 1660. 
  
-On 30 March 1667, [[wp>Charles_II_of_England|King Charles II]] granted Captain Prior three estates of some 800 acres (nearly 324 hectares) at [[wp>Rathdowney|Rathdowney]], Creallagh and Kilcoran ‘etc’ in the [[wp>Baron_Upper_Ossory|Barony of Upper Ossory]] in Queen’s County (now County Laois).((Rosa Caroline Praed Papers, QJO Mss OM64-01, Box 10/7/1: 1910 typescript of the grant, supplied by  by Robert M-P in 1947; Burke.)) Prior’s grant greatly benefited the family, but spare a thought for Morgan Cashin and Bryan McWilliam Fitzpatrick and their families whose land and homes were taken from them. The Fitzpatricks had been Barons of Upper Ossory since 1541, but lost most of their extensive property.((Teddy Fennelly, //Thomas Prior. His Life, Times and Legacy//, Ireland: Arderin Publishing, 2001, pp.1.)) \\+On 30 March 1667, [[wp>Charles_II_of_England|King Charles II]] granted Captain Prior three estates of some 800 acres (nearly 324 hectares) at [[wp>Rathdowney|Rathdowney]], Creallagh and Kilcoran ‘etc’ in the [[wp>Baron_Upper_Ossory|Barony of Upper Ossory]] in Queen’s County (now County Laois).((Rosa Caroline Praed Papers, JOLQ Mss OM64-01, Box 10/7/1: 1910 typescript of the grant, supplied by  by Robert M-P in 1947; Burke.)) Prior’s grant greatly benefited the family, but spare a thought for Morgan Cashin and Bryan McWilliam Fitzpatrick and their families whose land and homes were taken from them. The Fitzpatricks had been Barons of Upper Ossory since 1541, but lost most of their extensive property.((Teddy Fennelly, //Thomas Prior. His Life, Times and Legacy//, Ireland: Arderin Publishing, 2001, pp.1.)) \\
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 According to one source (which also incorrectly claims the property was granted to Thomas Prior by Cromwell, the Rathdowney estate was not a major one: "Strangely Rathdowney, which had been seized from the McCashin family and granted to Capt Thomas Prior by Cromwell, was still a very small village in 1665, with only about a dozen persons paid hearth- money in the whole townland of Rathdowney in that year."(([[https://laoishouses.wordpress.com/2021/11/13/coolfin-rathdowney/]]))\\ According to one source (which also incorrectly claims the property was granted to Thomas Prior by Cromwell, the Rathdowney estate was not a major one: "Strangely Rathdowney, which had been seized from the McCashin family and granted to Capt Thomas Prior by Cromwell, was still a very small village in 1665, with only about a dozen persons paid hearth- money in the whole townland of Rathdowney in that year."(([[https://laoishouses.wordpress.com/2021/11/13/coolfin-rathdowney/]]))\\
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