sentences:  Sir Thomas' wife Charity, Lady Staples (by then a widow) and their five children were captured during the Rebellion by Hugh Og O Quin.Imprisoned in the castle at Moneymore 5 miles away, they were held there and later at Castlecaulfield until Moneymore and the estate were liberated by the Royalist army in 1643.When the armies of Charles I reached Cookstown in 1643, they routed the rebels and razed the town to the ground.