Coppingers of Barryscourt Descriptive List (Ref. U405)

U405

which is not as easily mett with as one may imagine, you are master to take one either secular or regular, to whom I give all necessary power in the interim. After next Christmas I may be master to visit any quondem parishioners, if you advise one to it. Your family is the chiefest motive that would engage one to return. My compliments if you please to Mrs Coppinger and to Miss Therese and your children and believe that none can be more respectfully yours’. [Some fraying and small tears]

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21 October 1750

Letter to William Coppinger, Barrys Court, from Joseph Coppinger, Cork, regarding the salting of the former’s fish for sale by the latter [a tear obscures the opening lines]. Joseph sends by the bearer one pound of French salt, as there ‘would not be any the Lisbon at present, so that for another opportunity, as they were apprehensive of losing the tyde’. He adds ‘I sold your two barrels Herrings for 12/ [shillings] so in Gods name send more as fast as you can save them for by del ay the price will grow worse’.

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21 November 1750

Letter to William Coppinger, Barryscourt, from Joseph Coppinger, Cork, expressing sorrow at hearing their ‘poor sister’s disorder becomes so serious’. He sends a gallon of ‘Sweet Mountain that I believe will answer, the End of sack kept in town and afflicted s o Colds’. He notes that Molly is taken with ‘a lowness of spirits’ since hearing the news, and reports that Mrs Nagle miscarried yesterday. He begs to be kept informed regarding his sister’s health.

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5 December 1750

Letter to William Coppinger, B arry’s Court, from Joseph Coppinger, reporting that his wife Molly ‘was last Wednesday night brought to bed of a fine boy’. He also tells that that he is suffering ‘with a most violent Rheum.m in my right shoulder, & am accompany’d with a boyl on the back of my right hand, & a most heavy cough’. He asks that brother Sarsfield be told to come to town ‘to swear to the value of his goats otherwise they’le not be cleared’. He states that Mr Carleton has just sent word that he will not take more herrings, as owi ng to William’s delay in sending them ‘he was obliged to buy else where’. He continues ‘those you sent him up the barrels were so bad they were obliged to return some from the ship, so you see how honest Mrs Fling serves you’.