Distant Reader - subject-loyaltyOaths-freebo

Introduction

This is a Distant Reader "study carrel", a set of structured data intended to help the student, researcher, or scholar use & understand a corpus.

This study carrel was created on 2021-05-24 by Eric Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu>. The carrel was created using the Distant Reader zip2carrel process, and the input was a Zip file locally cached with the name input-file.zip. Documents in the Zip file have been saved in a cache, and each of them have been transformed & saved as a set of plain text files. All of the analysis -- "reading" -- has been done against these plain text files. For example, a short narrative report has been created. This Web page is a more verbose version of that report.

All study carrels are self-contained -- no Internet connection is necessary to use them. Download this carrel for offline reading. The carrel is made up of many subdirectories and data files. The manifest describes each one in greater detail.

Size

There are 22 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 75,312 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 3,423 words long. If you dig deeper, then you might want to save yourself some time by reading a shorter item. On the other hand, if your desire is for more detail, then you might consider reading a longer item. The following charts illustrate the overall size of the carrel.

Readability

On a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is very difficult and 100 is very easy, the documents have an average readability score of 82. Consequently, if you want to read something more simplistic, then consider a document with a higher score. If you want something more specialized, then consider something with a lower score. The following charts illustrate the overall readability of the carrel.

Word Frequencies

By merely counting & tabulating the frequency of individual words or phrases, you can begin to get an understanding of the carrel's "aboutness". Excluding "stop words", some of the more frequent words include:

king, text, oath, tcp, allegiance, will, god, may, english, shall, law, eebo, lord, early, therefore, kings, swear, power, england, tei, one, books, true, first, government, men, texts, made, subjects, persons, take, oaths, us, without, religion, laws, encoded, works, kingdom, also, now, within, sovereign, parliament, lords, characters, due, yet, make, words

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Digitus testium, or A dreadful alarm to the vvhole kingdom, especially the Lord Major, the aldermen, and the Common-Councel of the City of London. Or a short discourse of the excellency of Englands lawes and religion. Together, with the antiquity of both, and the famous Kings that England hath had to defend both the religion and the laws against the heathen Romish emperours, and against the Romish power, under Popes. With the several plots the Popes of Rome have used against the Kings of England, to throwe them down, and how of late he hath prevailed against the magistracy and ministery of England, his new designes, and manner of progress: together, with a serious view of the new oath or ingagement, with 22. queries upon the same. And also objections made against the non-subscribers thereof answered. Let the ingenuous reader take so much pains, as to read that incomparable peece of vindication of a treatise of monarchy by way of discovery of three main points thereof., A serious consideration of the oath of the Kings supremacy wherein these six propositions are asserted. 1. That some swearing is lawful. 2. That some promissory oaths are lawful. 3. That a promissory oath of allegiance and due obedience to a king is lawful. 4. That the King in his realm, is the onely supreme governour over all persons. 5. That the king is the governour of the realm, as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things, or causes, as temporal. 6. That the jurisdictions, priviledges, preeminences, and authorities in that oath, may be assisted and defended. By John Tombes B.D., and A discourse concerning the signification of allegiance, as it is to be understood in the new oath of allegiance.

The most frequent two-word phrases (bigrams) include:

early english, english books, books online, text creation, creation partnership, privy council, page images, early works, characters represented, represented either, image sets, tcp schema, roman non, online text, xml conversion, tiff page, financial support, loyalty oaths, commercial purposes, encoded edition, providing financial, tcp assigned, asking permission, bit group, images scanned, iv tiff, text transcribed, without asking, batch review, creative commons, institutions providing, pfs batch, proquest page, encoded text, image set, work described, markup reviewed, true allegiance, gap elements, will never, page image, will remain, characters marked, textual data, cambridge bibliography, due credit, known extent, texts based, characters will, every monographic

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The loyal non-conformist, or, An account what he dare swear, and what not. Act concerning the declaration to be signed by all persons in publick trust. At Edinburgh, the fifth day of Septembre, one thousand six hundred and sixty two., and A proclamation Forasmuch as the lords of the Committy of our privy Council met in the west ... requiring and commanding all and sundry the heretors ... within the shyre of Air ... to appear personally before the said Lords ....

While often deemed superficial or sophomoric, rudimentary frequencies and their associated "word clouds" can be quite insightful:

Keywords

Sets of keywords -- statistically significant words -- can be enumerated by comparing the relative frequency of words with the number of times the words appear in an entire corpus. Some of the most statistically significant keywords in the carrel include:

tcp, scotland, oath, king, council, swear, religion, majesties, lord, law, kingdom, house, god, thomason, subjects, sovereign, roman, pope, parliament, maiesties, lords, laws, england, covenant, commons, city, allegiance

And now word clouds really begin to shine:

Topic Modeling

Topic modeling is another popular approach to connoting the aboutness of a corpus. If the study carrel could be summed up in a single word, then that word might be king, and Act, appointing the oaths of allegiance taken for the benefit of the indemnity to be transmitted to the clerks of Privy Council. Edinburgh, January 12. 1692. is most about that word.

If the study carrel could be summed up in three words ("topics") then those words and their significantly associated titles include:

If the study carrel could be summed up in five topics, and each topic were each denoted with three words, then those topics and their most significantly associated files would be:

Moreover, the totality of the study carrel's aboutness, can be visualized with the following pie chart:

Noun & Verbs

Through an analysis of your study carrel's parts-of-speech, you are able to answer question beyonds aboutness. For example, a list of the most frequent nouns helps you answer what questions; "What is discussed in this collection?":

text, kings, texts, men, works, power, subjects, characters, words, books, xml, image, king, persons, images, time, reason, page, work, things, man, title, keying, eebo, edition, day, others, elements, project, encoding, data, people, assistance, instances, religion, p., word, users, purposes, markup, thing, part, nature, terms, oath, hath, enemies, sets, selection, schema

An enumeration of the verbs helps you learn what actions take place in a text or what the things in the text do. Very frequently, the most common lemmatized verbs are "be", "have", and "do"; the more interesting verbs usually occur further down the list of frequencies:

is, be, are, was, have, were, do, been, swear, made, take, encoded, said, being, had, make, did, according, taken, given, based, obliged, bound, intended, does, say, defend, -, published, give, proved, has, called, bear, required, created, create, corrected, represented, put, marked, appears, performed, set, sworn, assist, swearing, use, sent, having

Proper Nouns

An extraction of proper nouns helps you determine the names of people and places in your study carrel.

oath, king, tcp, god, allegiance, lord, law, england, english, text, tei, kingdom, eebo, lords, parliament, government, scotland, sovereign, oxford, oaths, 〉, laws, commons, l., council, church, 〈, creation, proquest, phase, partnership, ◊, k., religion, authority, london, house, christ, transcribed, privy, majesties, covenant, fidelity, act, protestants, william, pope, online, hath, c.

An analysis of personal pronouns enables you to answer at least two questions: 1) "What, if any, is the overall gender of my study carrel?", and 2) "To what degree are the texts in my study carrel self-centered versus inclusive?"

it, their, his, they, them, i, he, we, our, him, us, your, you, my, themselves, her, himself, thy, me, its, thee, she, theirs, ours, one, in"--first, i''ii, au, ''em

Below are words cloud of your study carrel's proper & personal pronouns.

Adjectives & Verbs

Learning about a corpus's adjectives and adverbs helps you answer how questions: "How are things described and how are things done?" An analysis of adjectives and adverbs also points to a corpus's overall sentiment. "In general, is my study carrel positive or negative?"

other, such, true, early, same, due, first, english, lawful, own, many, available, good, general, great, present, non, several, more, second, -, roman, illegible, faithful, common, necessary, textual, promissory, greater, clear, subject, original, possible, natural, like, new, keyboarded, former, financial, commercial, unlawful, evident, different, certain, actual, whole, much, later, free, wide

not, so, then, therefore, also, only, now, even, as, more, out, up, never, thus, well, most, online, early, very, down, in, yet, here, first, sometimes, thereof, much, ever, all, above, whatsoever, still, onely, far, again, over, plainly, lawfully, there, together, at, variously, away, usually, therein, respectfully, otherwise, notably, mainly, accurately

Next steps

There is much more to a study carrel than the things outlined above. Use this page's menubar to navigate and explore in more detail. There you will find additional features & functions including: ngrams, parts-of-speech, grammars, named entities, topic modeling, a simple search interface, etc.

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