Sampler
Sarah Bishop (fl.1768)
Category
Textiles
Date
Unknown
Materials
Textile
Measurements
430 x 405 mm
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Montacute House, Somerset
NT 597787
Summary
Sampler, undated. Linen embroidered with coloured silks using cross and rococo stitch. Alphabets and numerals in various sizes and designs worked in bands. A label on the backboard tells - 'This sampler was worked by Sarah Bishop afterwards wife of William van Deventer. Maternal grandfather of Marion Hopkinson Goodhart nee Smith'. (Copied from Sampler No. 80) 1768. The Lords Prayer in Verse Lord at Thy Mercies seat We gather To do our Duties unto Thee our Father To Whom all Praise and Honour should be given For thou art that great God Who art in Heaven Thou by thy Wisdom rul'st the Worlds Whole Frame Forever therefore Hallowed be thy Name Let never more Delays divide us from Thy Glories View but let 'ny Kingdom come Let thy Commands opposed be by none But thy good Pleasure and Thy will be done And let our Promptness to obey be even The very same in Earth as it is in Heaven Then for ourselves O Lord we also pray Thou would'st be pleased to give us this Day 'That Food of life wherewith our Souls are fed Contented Raiment and our Daily Bread With every needful Thing do thou relieve us And of thy Mercy pity and forgive us All our Misdeeds in whom thou did'st please To take in Offering for our Trespasses And for as much O Lord as we believe Thou so wilt pardon us as we forgive Let that Love teach us wherewith thou acquaints us To pardon all them that trespass against us And tho sometimes thou findest we have forgot This Love or thee yet help and lead us not Through Souls or Bodys want to Desperation Nor let Abundance drive into Temptation Let not the Soul of any true Believer Fall in the Time of Tryal but deliver Yea save him from the Malice of the Devil And both in Life and Death keep us from Evil Thus pray we Lord And but of thee from whom Can this be had for Thine is the Kingdom The World is of thy Works the Graven Story To thee belongs the Power and the Glory And this thy Happiness bath Ending never But shall remain for ever and ever This we confess and will confess again Till we shall say Eternally AMEN. Photo copyright NTPL/Richard Pike
Provenance
The collection of Dr Douglas Goodhart.
Makers and roles
Sarah Bishop (fl.1768), embroiderer