Coppingers of Barryscourt Descriptive List (Ref. U405)

U405

Letter to William Coppinger, Barry’s Court, from Joseph Coppinge r, Corke, looking forward to seeing him in a few days, and thanking him for delivering the letter to ‘Don Patrice’ whom, Joseph writes, ‘I think cannot in conscience but discharge my account if ever he intends to do it’. He sends six pounds of ‘the rappé’ as requested. He reports that he met Stephen Coppinger ‘& asked him whether I may wish him joy, to which he replyed No, but that it may be some time or other’. He thinks Stephen ‘has behaved oddly in this whole affair’. It seems, he writes, that Dick Nagle, who is ‘Guardian or some relation to the young Lady’ has ‘laid some obstruction’. He opines ‘should he now fail of success, he may throw his cap at any young lady of tollerable [choice] in this country’.

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27 February 1753

Letter to William Co ppinger, Barry’s Court, from Joseph Coppinger, Cork, forwarding a letter [not present], and explaining how business reasons and a cold prevent him from accompanying William to Co Waterford. He reports that he has received confirmation of the death of Mrs [MacNamara] and suggests this may not be the best time for William to proceed with visiting Mrs Crotty ‘who poor woman must be inconsolable’.

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23 March 1753

Letter to William Coppinger, Barry’s Court, from Margaret Galwey, Borris, explaining that his of 15 February did not reach her until lately, and fearing that he has committed ‘a sort of a sin, which is judging rashly’, in wrongly thinking her ‘ill natured’. She congratulates him on ‘Sister Coppingers’ [his wife’s] safe delivery. She hopes Mrs S arsfield ‘will have the same good luck’. She notes that in a late letter to Uncle Butler he promised to visit ‘your friends in this side of the world’. She reports that her mother is ‘surpriseingly recovered’. She is glad to hear his rash has abated. She i nforms him that Mr Galwey ‘whom you may be sure pertoke of all the gaiety the city afforded’ returned last night, and that he and her brother ‘went to see the famous Turk perform’. She passes on good wishes from sister Esmonde and Sir John, who visited last week. She notes that Sir John’s house, unlike that of Mr Sarsfield, did not suffer ‘by the violent rains and storms we had… Sir John has not don his after the same manner for instead of blood he put iron dust and stocko, and intends after the first coat of paint to get a good deal of fine sand sifted on and paint it over which he says will prevent frost or any other whethers doing it hurt’.

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18 June 1753