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he found ‘this Assizes the least beneficial to me of any we have had; a general complaint of sca rcity of Cash reigns in all their mouths’. He thinks this ‘bad preparation’ for paying the heavy duties on a large shipment of claret which he expects daily, and discharging a large ongoing bill. He has heard that ‘your namesake’ is to call on William to c onsult on his marrying Miss Gould. Joseph opines ‘I should not hesitate a single moment about it, as I really think it a snugg match’. He thinks Francis Gould is ‘not for the match much’, but only because, he believes, it may deprive him of William’s servi ces in his counting house. He hopes the match will proceed ‘for as he is circumstanced such another offer may not again present it self’.
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66.
16 August 1755 [1757?]
Letter to William Coppinger, Barry’s Court, from Joseph Coppinger, Corke, insisting that he call himself to collect their sister, instead of sending for her. He will be expected tomorrow night, a Sunday, when Mr Dezart dines with them, and mentions ‘my cordial julip’ and ‘a dish of partridge’, as ‘ an inducement to your & the companys eating the heartier’. He expects him to bring ‘Will or Paddy as an assist’. He reports that brother Sarsfield and Tom Coppinger are now at table with him. [Small tear along right edge].
1p
67.
[February 1756]
Letter to William Coppinger, Barry ’s Court, fr om Francis Flaherty, apologising for troubling him on ‘the old account’, and asking that he inform his neighbour Mr McCarthy ‘that if I am not pay’d at or before next Corke assizes all the interest due on both Bonds, there shall be immediately six judgements entered upon the two Bonds, I mean four besides the two already entered’. He writes that he has heard ‘the Countess has been very favourable to him of late’ and has paid some of his debts. He notes that his ‘marks’, messrs Sarsfield, Gould, and Kearney, must join with William in getting this debt paid. He continues ‘doubtless Mr Mccarthy tells the Lady that I am a rich man, and that I can forbear for a longer time, but he is damnably mistaken, for no man who has six daughters marry’d at his cost, or marriageable, can be deemed a rich man’. In a post script he notes that the bond first passed in 1750, and that he has only received two years’ interest since.
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68.
27 February 1756
Letter to William Coppinger, Barry’s Court, from Joseph Coppinger, Cork , thanking him for his ‘card of enquiry’. He sends newspapers and comments that the times ‘carry a
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