Coppingers of Barryscourt Descriptive List (Ref. U405)

U405

you saw any acc.ts of mine among his papers in Dublin it must be in regard to his application of some of Stephen Coppinger’s money by my directions there, for of the six hundred pounds he had to pay me of Thomas Coppinger’s money he gave me in Cork but £300 of it which cousin Joe may recollect, the money lying in his hands till I made use of it’. He reports on his journey home from Cork on Monday and mentions that they found their son Edward very unwell. [See U405/35 above]

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75.

Undated [1756]

Letter to William Coppinger, Barry’s Court, from Dominick Sarsfield ‘Friday evening’, expressing gladness ‘that all circumstances attending Master Stephen since last night are manifestly for the better’. He advises spitting and gargling, and that he ‘take the same quieting draft this night adding one tea spoonful more of Diacodium than he got in the last’. He adds that use of the drops may be suspended until he calls early tomorrow. [See U405/69 above]

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76.

Undated [1753]

Letter (to Wiliam Coppinger) from Mary Galwey, congratulating him, on behalf of her uncle ‘who honours me with the imployment of secretary’, on the safe delivery of a baby girl. She informs him that all her family are well, aprt from her aunt, who has had an attack of colic. She reports Richard Galwey and wife came home last week, and that Mr Kavanagh and Lord Dunboyne were with them. She adds that Sir John called on his way to Co Tipperary, noting ‘they are still working at the mines but nothing discovered as yet’. She remarks ‘hes very hearty and well notwithst anding his disappointment with Cuff’. She reports that ‘Poor sister Esmonde’ is all alone and has asked her to join her, which she cannot do at present, but she thinks Molly Shee of Cloran is to join her immediately. If not, she will go ‘for it would be dr eadfull to leave her without some creature, as Sr John must soon go to Dublin’. She conveys her uncle’s congratulations on William’s saving of his harvest, and best wishes for ‘the herrings’. She explains that she has delayed replying to William’s wife on the ‘dismall subiect’ of ‘our ever dear Mothers Death, which was sudden indeed’, and gives a brief account of it. [The lower edge of the letter is dirty, obscuring some text]. [See U405/46 above]

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77.

Undated [1754]

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