Coppingers of Barryscourt Descriptive List (Ref. U405)

U405

Letter to William Coppinger, Barry’s Court, from John Galwey, Carrigg, acknowledging his. He states that he hopes tomorrow to set out for Kilcash, where he intends to spend ten or twelve days. He asserts that ‘the very great concourse of company’ there will not affect him, but owns ‘I do not find the same relish for that part of the world I form erly did’. Regarding the thirty pounds charity in his [Galwey’s] mother’s will, the writ for which is in William’s hands, he asks ‘in the name of God dispose of it as you think she would have it, I desire not to know where or to whom’. He adds ‘I doe belie ve common beggars were not those she intended it for’. He reports that he forwarded two subpoenas to Joseph Coppinger, ‘something in relation to the work house of Corke I believe’, and advised him to place the matter in the hands of Anthony Lane ‘who tho a little leasy is certainly the best attorney in Corke’. He states ‘I am glad to hear that your orchard is not entirely destroy’d. Nor are those here on a closer examination, but yet they will not answer for poor people to make near there rent of them, & what is much worse for the country is that this dismal drought will I fear destroy of corn hay & potatoes, God Allmighty relieve us. Notwithstanding all this our watters of Mallow are exceeding gay a vast deal of company & a great many more daily expected’. [Tear along middle fold]

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31 July 1753

Letter to William Coppinger, Barry’s Court, from John Galwey, Carrigg, informing them of his wife Jane’s safe delivery of a boy, and that both of them are well, ‘tho I must say she suffered this time more t han ever I knew her to doe’. He thinks her ‘mismanadgement’ in delaying to send for the midwife may have contributed to this. He enquires after his sister’s health. He reports that Mrs McCartie and a Miss Anhill are presently staying with him. He continues ‘I believe she returns to the Co Tipperary with her cousin & uncle Esmonde who are now drinking Mallow watters, with many other fine folks, no less the three ladys of quality besides Barrons Knoghts Ladys &c & c, which makes Mallow no small place’.

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27 March 1754

Letter to William Coppinger, Barry’s Court, from John Galwey, Carrigg, explaining that ‘as I have some company with me in the house’ he cannot ask the bearer, Mr O’Neal, to come to him, ‘as I know gentlemen of the Cloath are not agreeab le to my present sett, Mr & Mrs St Leger from Doneraile’. He continues ‘I hope to have the pleasure of seeing you at assizes, & then you may assure yourself Ill give you what help I can towards getting out of Mr Comerford’s books. The interest I promised M r Hennessy some time ago I offered to pay him, & then it was I heard the bond was assigned Mr Comerford & that