Coppingers of Barryscourt Descriptive List (Ref. U405)

U405

endeavour to putt her s killets on their legs’. He sends him a couple of quires of his own writing paper, there being none of the ‘Grand Corné’ available at present. He explains that he has arranged to have wines delivered to William at a good price. He tells William that, owing to dull trade, ‘a growing charge, heavy rent, & a large house, I have taken a French young gentleman to lodge with me’. He pays twenty guineas a year, states Joseph, while assuring William ‘I have still preserved a good room & bed for you’. He reports ‘Cou sine Haly tells me Lady Bellew has left another of her sons that was in Paris & Mrs Coppinger is gone to her Mother who is in a dying way. Our chief town talk is turn’d on the roads being infested with footpads’.

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1 February 1750

Letter to Willi am Coppinger, Barry’s Court, from John Galwey, Carrigg, noting, in respect of the subpoena enclosed with William’s letter, that ‘I had wrote to my friend Kennedy long before that to appear for all the partys concerned on my side in that cause’. He adds ‘I had great hopes indeed that affair would remain unrevived during [the] minority but now that my kinsman Sr John takes it in hand I fear it must fall heavy on me, but bear it I must’. He expresses some annoyance at William’s recent silence and his claims that he and his wife are indisposed, noting that she is unlikely to recover her disposition ‘till she gets rid of her big belly… but… by producing you a lusty boy will I hope sett all your fabricks in order’. He adds that his wife Jane ‘goes on bravely’ and is determined to ‘stay quietly at home with Granny Walsh’ until her delivery. He speaks of cousin Sarsfield and cousin Paddy, Mr Mahoney, and Nanny Coppinger and her brother Jack. He notes that Mahoney is concerned that William will ‘start difficulties’ [a bout his marriage to Nanny Coppinger] by enquiring into his circumstances to see if he is entitled to her fortune. Galwey opines that he may not be entitled to her full fortune of five or six hundred pounds but ‘he will make it appear he is entitled to the first fortune agreed to vid £200, the rest he looks upon as a gift of the lady’s own’. He notes that it appears her brother Stephen Coppinger approves of the affair, and thinks William ought to be guided by this. He adds ‘your doing anything to prevent th is affair going on would be taken ill by manny’. [The letter is fragile, and is frayed along the bottom edge ] [See U405/73 below]

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16.

6 June 1750

Letter to William Coppinger, Barrys Court, from Dr Matt MacKenna, Cahrue, sending his compliments and enquiring about the health of Mrs Coppinger. He continues ‘in my present circumstances at Carrigtouhil, where I had not much business or satisfaction, I freely accented of my superiors invitation of making a mission in places that want it more than Carrigt uohil, and have left Fr O’Neil in my place’. He asks that letters be sent to Mr Cavey’s in Fishambles lane. He inquires about the chapel and gives some directions