[1] Hooke made his fortune selling herrings and cheese to the English Parliamentary army in Ireland.
[4][5][6][7] Religiously he was Independent and an elder of the congregation of St Nicholas-within-the-walls,[8] close to his house on Castle Street.
[9] Corballis House and Kilsallaghan Estate in north County Dublin was granted to him as part of the Cromwellian land settlement.
[10][11] Following the restoration of Charles II in 1660, Hooke's ownership of the house, along with much of the rest of the land he had acquired, was contested.
In 1666 he was eventually forced to relinquish Corballis House,[12] but not before receiving permission from Lord Deputy Ormond to remove ‘certain fittings put up by the petitioner.’[13] He was accused of disloyalty in 1663 but escaped censure.