Coppingers of Barryscourt Descriptive List (Ref. U405)

U405

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63.

25 January 1755

Letter [to William Coppinger] from John Galwey, expressing satifaction that he shall see him next week ‘now that your business is all over’. He reports ‘On Monday – God willing – I goe with my son William to Mr Bunworths near Buttevant where I have at last determined to place him. I have been pre ss’d & advised by my Co Kilkenny friends to send him back to Mr Hewetson, but Im in hopes this place will answer better as the gentleman has an excellent character & has but 13 or 14 boys’. He explains that he has in recent days been much alarmed on account of his children who have been ill ‘for what we or the Doctor could tell, supposed it to be the sma ll pox’. He adds that his son Billy will now go to William, ‘God preserve him to you as a Comfort’. [There are small holes along the fold lines, and some text is feint].

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64.

1 February 1755

Letter to William Coppinger, Barry’s Court, from Richard G alwey, West Court, a cknowledging his with its account of Christmas, remarking that he ‘should have been happy could I have scroug’d in among ye for a few days’. He wonders if William is now in Cork, meeting John Galwey, or whether the latter’s fears that h is children have measles or smallpox may have prevented him. He trusts Billy is not affected and that he started ‘at his private school near Mallow’ last Monday. He continues ‘I did not I must own imagine that he would have removed him so soon from Kilkenny, were it only to shew the young gentleman that he must not expect to coax or imposse on him by his artful [storys] & complaints, which give the youngster his due he has play’d successfully, and carry’d his points, which I told my brother he made sure of all along’. He reports that Mr Butler of Kilcash is gone to England and ‘Brother Kavanagh’ is gone to Paris. He notes that ‘Sir John… is to have another tryall with Cuff the ensuing assizes, God send it be successful & definitive’. In a post script he asks ‘pray remember me to the family of Johnstown’.

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65.

8 April 1755

Letter to William Coppinger, Barry’s Court, from Joseph Coppinger, Corke, thanking him for allowing them to have his servant Peggy for so long, and informing him that he is now sending her home. He tells him about the recent assizes involving himself and Mr Galwey, noting that they both had ‘the constant drum of company’ and commenting that