Item 570 - Christopher Ormsby to Thomas Ormsby

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Letter from Christopher Ormsby, son of Christopher Ormsby and nephew, to Thomas Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo. From Ballahoola [Ballahowley, Knock, Co. Mayo] with which he encloses his father's letter which "contained so much complaint" and continues that his father could have refused "my modest request" without accompanying it with falsehood and invective". He refutes all that his father accuses him of "purchasing my two annuities" without consulting him and regarding his horses "I made just two swaps in the course of my life and his stable was never so clean as when my servant and horse are there" ... he writes that his father "at one time (before I became so very deaf) consented to my going into the army and wrote himself to William Lindsey to try and get me a lieutenancy in the Sligo militia yet he afterwards denied that he ever consented to my going into the army at all". He continues "Now, my dear Sir, how is it possible I can live in the house with my father who acts so ungenerously towards me and makes it so uncomfortable, always complaining to me of my poor mother and of his distressed circumstances, neither of which is within my power to remedy ... and since I am incapable of satisfying him I had better spend as little time with him as possible and go to France again, since he won't consent to my taking any place here and live with him I cannot, till he is better disposed towards me ..."

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