PITTS THEOLOGY LIBRARY
ARCHIVES AND MANUSCRIPTS DEPT.

CARTWRIGHT, AMBROSE.
Prayers, [16-].

MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION NUMBER 244

EXTENT: .1 cubic ft. (1 folder)

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CITATION: Ambrose Cartwright Prayers, MSS 244, Archives and Manuscripts Dept., Pitts Theology Library, Emory University. 

Biographical Note

Ambrose Cartwright was an English Protestant with a wife and one child at the time of this composition.  No further information is known.

Scope and Content Note

This manuscript consists of three pages of devotional exercises handwritten in ink on paper.  The piece is divided into three sections: "Private Devotion," "Days of Humiliation," and "Publick [sic] Devotion."  The first section contains fourteen prayers to be said throughout each day.  The second section contains two prayers to be recited twice weekly in repentance for sins.  The last section contains two prayers for the Sabbath.  There are eighteen prayers in all, with instructions in the margin as to when they are to be recited.

Last Modified: 06/07/2002