Coppingers of Barryscourt Descriptive List (Ref. U405)

U405

17 November 1747

Letter to William Coppinger ‘at Mr William Graces Merchant in Abbey Street, Dublin’, from Joseph Coppinger, Corke, 17 November 1747, expressing his ‘apprehension of your giving too much way to the misfortune you labour under’, and urging him to tru st in God. He hopes to see him soon, and expresses his confidence that William is ‘taking all imaginable measures to serve me, be assured in return I shall be grateful to the least of them, whether they are effectual or not’. He claims that he owes his own resolution to his sister’s ‘heroick behaviour’.

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20 November 1747

Letter to William Coppinger ‘at William Grace’s, Merchant in Abbey Street, Dublin’, from Joseph Coppinger, Corke, advising ‘as to what Ben Sullivan said I would lay no stress on it, as I suppose the Doctor told him soe as an excuse for his proceeding against you. To be sure Mr Galwey is the proper person to give directions for the discharge of it, & undoubtedly will on your application. This first year of his Guardianship will certainly be the most troublesome, as all punctuality must be observed in the discharge of the interest, but Xmas will be too soon to call for the last rents become due, besides the difficulty to answer all other calls, that will be on him. What ever orders he gives me I shall be most punctual to them & you may depend particularly so where your interest is concerned’. ‘As to Donworth’s affair’ he states that he cannot proceed for the present, because ‘the cash I gave the remittances made, and the Doctor’s and m any other applications I have made has entirely exhausted my finances’. He thinks William should allow Commander Cavendish ‘for the [press] & stairs he made, with a good grace, & preserve him our friend than to be compell’d to do it & make him an enemy’. Regarding rent owed to Mr Kearney, he suggests that William make a complaint to him that Mr Rogerson has not allowed workmen into the gardens of Ballyvolane for six months, meaning no preparations for next spring have taken place. He adds ‘the Dung of the stables his [Rogerson’s] servants have been about selling, Maurice Nagle tells me he spoke to Mr Philpott about it, & hinder’d some people from buying it, so that instead of getting a garden well sett & in good heart with all kinds of vegetables & roots, as the Coll.r [collector] received it, it will be returned a barren wilderness with nothing but weeds’. He thinks it was not Mr Cavendish’s intention to have the land returned in that manner, and suggests ‘a proper hint to him may not be amiss’. He is glad that William mentions a proper fee for Mr Flaherty, ‘else resentment may be of some consequence’. He refers to a bill which William received from him. He also expresses surprise that William has still not found cousin Kearney’s paper, stating ‘he actually will sue for it, [as it] is of the last consequence both to his & other gentlemens Estates’. In a post script he informs that ‘old Mrs Roche is at last Dead, by which Mr Kearny gets, much good may it