Coppingers of Barryscourt Descriptive List (Ref. U405)

U405

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Letters to William Coppinger I, 1740-56

(79 items)

28 September 1740

Letter (to William Coppinger) from Maurice Sarsfield, Dublin, stating ‘I wrote you from hence and am of opinion you had heard all, I told you my mind before I sett out for this town I received two letters from my cousin Fraink. I am no further concerned in any informations but against Toller I have prevented the breaking twenty of the officers being Broake. You may hear a great deal by some of Toller’s friends but doe not believe a word of them until I see you my self. I wrote Mr Roger Griffin three letters he did not think meet to answer any of them. I hope youll spare your thoughts of me until I shew you proper Reasons of my being a wellwisher to my flesh and blood. I conclude with my best respects to all your family and to my cousin your brother. I beg youl speak to my unkle that he should write to me a letter in order to lett me know how he is. I would have wrote to him but that I am sensible he has not wherewithal to pay the postage I would be proud to hear from you but am afraid it would be troublesome. Ill go back again please god and return some of my friends thanks. Yours affectionate kinsman and humble servant, Mau: Sarsf ield’. In a postscript he adds ‘I pray youl make my Uncle Sarsfield write to me, I want for nothing & thank god there is noe embargo on me. I trust in god to live for some time longer’.

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29 September 1747

Letter to William Coppinger ‘at Mr William Graces Merchant in Abbey Street, Dublin’, from Joseph Coppinger, Corke, e xpressing dismay that William is ‘no further advanced in your affairs than on your arrival in Dublin’, adding ‘I find by it that poor Teresa & I have nothing to expect but misery & poverty’. He asks ‘is there no hope or expectation for us to benefit in any shape by my poor brother’s will’. He notes that he has been told by Mr Kearney that the power to collect rents on behalf of William and his sister which he has received is such tha t he cannot compel the tenants to pay, ‘so that if any make any objection I must only submit to it until I am properly authorized’. He continues ‘I shall not pass any receipts for Killicloyne until you desire it, but have a charming opportunity to sollicit my Lord for the renewal of Ballincollig as I received a letter from him this day desiring to know whether I heard anything from you regarding the family affairs, but as I have nothing but what regards myself I can the better write him that I hope for his Lordships goodness in granting a renewal, which would be some help to steer through life but I own I have not much hope for success’. He states that he is sending the English