Coppingers of Barryscourt Descriptive List (Ref. U405)

U405

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36.

9 May 1752

Letter to William Coppinger, Barry’s Court, from Francis Flaherty, Agliss, informing him that he owes him two years’ interest since February on a bond entered into on 25 February 1750. He states that he is on his way to Cork and asks that William contact him to arrange payment at his brother’s house. In a post script he adds ‘your neighbour has cleared all the interest that was due on his other bond to this current year’.

37.

26 May 1752

Letter to William Coppinger ‘at West Court near Callen’ from Stephen Coppinger ‘of Carhue’, written at Carrig. He reports that all is well there and that he and Mr and Mrs Gallwey will travel to West Court in twelve to fourteen days time. He adds that Billy has gone home and that he will follow him tomorrow. He hopes William will not think of returning home until Stephen has seen him at West Court, and he sends best wishes to family and friends in Kilkenny. He ment ions a ‘melancholy affair’ at Ballyardmoy, where two of the men servants were poisoned by arsenic. A short note to William Coppinger from John Gallwey is contained on the reverse of Stephen’s letter. He refers to his sister Molly, commenting that her lette rs ‘still continue very queer’. In a post script he adds ‘tell my sister Miss St Leger is brought to bed of a fine boy, & will marry More of her female acquaintance – or knowing ones, therby taken in’ In a foot note he explains ‘taken in – (a sporting phr aise for being deceived)’. The top edges and the page con taining the address are frayed.

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38.

11 July 1752

Letter to William Coppinger, Barry’s Court, from Joseph Coppinger, Corke, sending a dozen bottles of claret by the bearer, but noting that not all the champagne bottles were returned, and asking that William, if possible, ‘throw in a word in my favour… before Mrs Broderick’. He ad ds that he has secured the requested items from Mrs Foley but instructs ‘you must powder the Cream of Tartar yourselv es in a mortar as she never calcines any drugg’.