A booke of devotions, prayers &c by Streynsham Master... [manuscript], collected anno 1666.
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A booke of devotions, prayers &c by Streynsham Master... [manuscript], collected anno 1666.
Description
266, [12] p.; [2] loose leaves. 1 loose leaf at page 186.
Associated name
Master, Streynsham, 1640-1724, author.
Summary
Penned by Sir Streynsham Master (1640-1724), a prominent East India Company merchant and administrator who in 1678 founded the first English church in India, the church of St. Mary within Fort St. George, Madras. Master’s long and successful mercantile career in India saw him appointed governor of the fort in 1677. Other notable achievements include the invention of a much used system of bookkeeping, the reorganisation of the Madras administration and the establishment there of a court of judicature in 1683. The booke of devotions, prayers &c. offered here, “collected anno 1666” is in Master’s own hand and must have been penned in India. Attractively bound in gilt-tooled morocco and written with considerable care within red-ruled borders, the manuscript includes biblical extracts and numerous prayers, among them some particularly appropriate for seafaring merchants (“prayer in a journey ... after a journey ... prayers at sea ... in a voyage ... after a voyage ... in a storm ... after a storm ... after a return home ... prayer for good success in busyness ...”)
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Source of acquisition
Samuel Gedge PO D8880.
Item Details
Call number
V.a.648
Folger-specific note
FSL copy contains three loose leaves with prayer formulas which appear to be used as prayer prompts for individuals.
Folger accession
269116