Coppingers of Barryscourt Descriptive List (Ref. U405)

U405

Letter to William Coppinger, Barrys Court, from Joseph Coppinger, Cork, which opens ‘on receipt of your lettr. I went to the printer & inserted a proper advertisemt. of your Syder which I hope will have the desired effect’. He is glad William has come into ‘the scheme’ [Joseph’s] for making and selling cider, and assures him that he can sell his complement immediately, and could sell much more ‘on the same terms to fine men every year, so that for God sake be very ca refull in making it’. He expresses gladness that his sister is quite well, and he sends his wife Molly’s regards, along with some coffee from her and three newspapers from himself. He discusses his health, Squire John of Carrig, and ‘the Captain’, who dine s with him. In a postscript he refers to Mrs Nagle, who is getting better, and passes on a message from Dr Flaherty regarding the principle of William’s and Mr Canty’s bond.

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7 September 1754

Letter to William Coppinger, Barry’s Court, from Jose ph Coppinger, Cork, reporting that ‘last night poor Mary began to grumble & still continues so, & as I trust in God it will soon be over with her’. He conveys thanks to his sister for her offer to come to town, but states that aunt Gould and Nurse Grey are with her. He acknowledges William’s receipt and sympathises with him on his shortage of money, noting that he himself has a bill for £300 and others running to £960 to discharge. He sends him some products and suggests that William send him a dozen barrels of his old cider to sell. [Top edge is frayed, causing some loss of text].

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14 September 1754

Letter to William Coppinger, Barrys Court, from Joseph Coppinger, Cork, 14 September 1754, beginning ‘Until I had yours delivered this day I almost i magined you had forgot us’, and stating that, while Joseph and Molly would have liked to visit him this day, they have not yet received ‘positive orders’ from him to do so, and therefore ‘I with reluctance deprive myself of the pleasure of embracing you’. He continues ‘I am sorry to find you are so backward in your harvest, contrary to your usual custom. It’s a bad [as bad] hearing your potatoes are effected & almost so that the herring have not paid you a visit’. He reports ‘I have secured a dozen Bullocks heads for you from Nilan @ 16/ per cw’. He adds ‘I shall give you directions how to manage them. He [Nilan] spared them out of his [pear?] ale stock’. He enquires after his sister and informs him that Mr Galway’s little ones are recovered of their colds.

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