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LIFE OF CHARLES 11AL1DAY. XXXI
Translation of the Register of St. Thomas' Abbey, Dublin, commonly
called
Coppinger's 1
Register being made by Thomas
Coppinger. Folio. '
A.D. U68-15o2. Assembly Rolls of Quarto.
Corporation of Dublin.
A.D. 1468-1509. Memoranda and Freeman Rolls of the Cor-
poration of Dublin. Quarto.
It will be seen from the journals of Haliday's reading that
while his earlier studies were for the most part general and
miscellaneous he still kept himself fully informed of all
that was published
and commerce.
from time to time on trade, banking,
He was also deeply interested in all social subjects, such Haliday's
as the relief of the poor and their general well-being, and the daily press,
was a large but anonymous contributor to the public journals.
He wrote letters and articles on trade, banking, the
poor, the public markets, the taxes, and whatever else concerned
the public interest, but he abstained from politics,
though of pronounced Conservative" opinions of an enlarged
kind, and with a spirited national feeling of his own. He
left a large scrap book of these contributions which remains
an interesting monument to showhow constantly his thoughts
and his pen were employed unobserved for the public
interest.
On the cover inside appears the following note in his
handwriting :
" I have collected in this volume soiue of the trifles which I
have written and published, that I ID ay be reminded of past ex-
ertions and stimulated to new ones for the public good."
1 On parchment in fine bold en- made by Coppinger, with similar
grossing hand on the title page notice, A.D. 1526, is preserved in
"
Copia vera the Rawlinson MSS. (No. 499),
is the following :
Oxford. It is
quarandam evidentiarum monas- Bodleian terii Sancti Thomae Martyris juxta
Library,
bound and stamped with Sir James
Dublinum extractarurn per me, Ware's coat of arms.
Willielmum Coppinger, suae na- The first contains private grants,
tionis capitaneum, Anno Domini, the other volume grants of different
1526. kings, and other public conces-
Another portion of this register,
sions.