Jean Monro
Band Sampler with the Lord’s Prayer
1759-1768
Jean Monro
Band Sampler with the Lord’s Prayer
1759-1768
Inscribed: All embroidered: Border area: 3/8' high upper case alphabet 'ABCDEFGHIKLMNOPQRSTVWXYZ' (no J or U);same line: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 1st band: 3/16' high lower case alphabet with a few upper case at the end: "abcedfghiklmnopqrfstuvWwXYyZ" [no j]; On the same line: numbers "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12" 3rd band: text worked in 3/8' upper and lower case letters: "THE Heav'ns declare thy Glory, Lord which that alone can fill./ The Firmament and Stars exprefs their great Creator's Skill./ The Dawn of each returning Day, frefh Beams of Knowledge brings/And from the dark returns of Night divine Inftruction fprings."; "Favour is deceitful/ and beauty is vain but/ a woman that feareth ye Lord fhe fhall be praifed."[Note: archaic form of 's' written as 'f' is used in these inscriptions.] 5th band: 3/8' upper and lower case letters: "OUR Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come Thy will be done in/ earth As it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trefpaffes As we/ forgive them that trefpafs againft us And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil,/ For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen" 7th band: 3/8' upper and lower case letters: "Give me O Lord thine early Grace Nor let my Soul complain,/ That the Young Morning of my Days Has all been fpent in vain."; 3/8' upper and lower case letters "Bleffed are the pure in heart/ for they fhall fee God" 8th band: 3/8' upper and lower case: 'Iean Monro Her Work Done in The Thirteenth Year of Her Age March th23/ 176[ ]'
