Coppingers of Barryscourt Descriptive List (Ref. U405)

U405

Letters to William Coppinger II, 1784-85

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80.

11 February 1784

Letter to William Coppinger, Barryscourt, Cork, from John Galwey, Kilkenny, replying to ‘my Dear Nephews two letters’. He explains arrangements he has made to provide James Nashe with the certificate he was seeking. He refers to William’s broth er Joe and to his own sons Joe and William, and stresses, with regard to his son Joe and a prospective joint venture with one or other of the Coppingers, ‘that it is & will be quite out of my power to answer his Expectations till I can sell Westcourt’. He adds, ‘I wish our cousin Mich Coppinger who I hear is purchasing, would d eal with me for Westcourt’. Galwey sees little prospect of Mr Butler paying the bond to the convent left by Galwe y’s Aunt Butler to Coppinger’s sister, but explains his confidence tha t the interest will shortly be more punctually paid. He discusses his efforts to lease out lands at Whitechurch, noting ‘in order to turn poor Edwards mind from his dismal feelings at present, I have trown this matter on him’. He expresses surprise at hear ing Dick and Jack were lately in Cork, leaving ‘their poor distressed Brother and Mrs Collis alone in that dismal place’.

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81.

[March 1785]

Letter to William Coppinger, Barryscourt, Corke, from Patrick Sarsfield ‘Spain supposed March 1785’. He notes that he saw Colonel Aylmer in St Lucas, who was proud to hear of his friends in Ireland. He states ‘At present I cant say any thing about the Bill but will by the time it becomes due’. He hopes to hear soon from Coppinger ‘with the agreeable account of t he augmentation of your family’, and asks to be remembered to them all. A note on the address page [by Coppinger] reads ‘answered at large & about Capn Pursell’s sisters concerning whom Col Aylmer wrote to me. Answd 4 May’. 1p