Coppingers of Barryscourt Descriptive List (Ref. U405)

U405

there was two years interest on it, which I was determined to have told you but forgot it when I was last with you ’. [Small tear on middle fold].

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50.

30 May 1754

Letter to William Coppinger, Barry’s Court, from John Galwey, West Court, thanking him for his ‘long wished for epistle’, and reporting that all are well at West Court, apart from Mr Christopher Butler ‘who is but weak tho much better now’. Next week, he adds, ‘they [the Butlers] all goe to Kilcash’. He is unsure if he will keep his engagement to spend a few days at Garraricken, as he (and his wife) ‘long much to see the little ones at Carrigg’. He reports they have just returned fr om Hunting Town, where there was disappointment [for their hosts] in having the verdict they obtained last term at considerable expense now laid aside and a new trial required. He is glad to have heard from cousin Joe that ‘his great & to be sure, good cargoe of wine arrived safe, sound, there is no danger of, it be the Chateau Margoux – he gives me an am.t of it himself, with a little memorandum tached to it, which he can introduce most genteelly, but I assure you in my opinion it does not add to the flavour of his wine by any means, if he could be broke of that ugly trick his wines would goe down well’. He reports that he has entered Billy in Kilkenny school but that unfortunately it has now broken up for three weeks, and he fears further idleness will ‘hurt him much’. He notes that he has paid five guineas entrance and must pay twenty three pounds a year for ‘schooling, lodging & dyet, his washing & many other things to be paid for besides’.

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51.

4 June 1754

Letter to William Coppinger, Barry’s Cour t, from Edmond Goold, Dublin, explaining that t he late letters have only just reached him, by Thomas Dillon’s hand. He thanks William and cousin Sarsfield for their presence at Knockraha. He notes that Paul Gould’s answers did not arrive in Dublin until it was too late for him to amend his bill this term ‘but in return I put them to the expense of two processes of contempt’. His belief in the justice of his suit, backed by his lawyer, is, he writes, ‘great encouragement to me to strive to get my own by fowl means from one who I am persuaded would never do me justice by any fair ones’. He adds that his lawyer and attorney manage the suit on the basis of ‘no purchase no pay’. He contends that his adversary’s holding on to two bonds amounting to £1400 ‘which he ll neither sue for, nor deliver me up to sue for my self, I mean to assign me the judgements, plainly shews his intentions, which are that he’d be glad to see me perish in a jail or rather by the Kingdom which would be still more agreeable to him’. He explains that he ‘could not acquit my self of your commission for Messrs Dillon’ as Michael has just returned from London and he and Thomas are ‘confined at close work… to satisfy the publick, which is not very easy to be done, as a