Distant Reader - subject-solemnLeagueAndCovenant-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 2021-05-25 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.

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Size

There are 36 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 787,920 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 21,886 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 87. 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:

god, covenant, may, church, will, us, king, shall, yet, one, power, parliament, men, first, without, much, oath, religion, made, time, must, now, many, good, great, people, make, man, bishops, law, ye, government, take, though, therefore, kings, things, also, england, say, according, thing, lord, scotland, might, doe, well, true, reason, either

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The great danger of covenant-refusing, and covenant-breaking. Presented in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable Thomas Adams Lord Mayor, and the Right Worshipfull the sheriffes, and the aldermen his brethren, and the rest of the Common-councell of the famous City of London, Jan. 14. 1645. Upon which day the solemne League and Covenant was renued by them and their officers with prayer and fasting at Michael Basinshaw, London. / By Edmund Calamy, B.D. and pastor of Aldermanbury London., Three treatises concerning the Scotish discipline 1. A fair warning to take heed of the same, by the Right Reverend Dr. Bramhall, Bishop of Derris : 2. A review of Dr. Bramble, late Bishop of London-Derry, his fair warning, &c. by R.B.G. : 3. A second fair warning, in vindication of the first, against the seditious reviewer, by Ri. Watson, chaplain to the Right Honorable the Lord Hopton : to which is prefixed, a letter written by the Reverend Dean of St. Burien, Dr. Creyghton., and The generall demands, of the reverend doctors of divinitie, and ministers of the Gospell in Aberdene, concerning the late covenant, in Scotland together, with the answeres, replyes, and duplyes that followed thereupon, in the year, 1638 : reprinted in one book, by order of Parliament..

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

roman non, english books, early english, books online, solemn league, reformed churches, let us, protestant religion, pearth articles, jesus christ, three kingdomes, every man, late covenant, true religion, page images, ye say, every one, iesus christ, solemne league, must needs, reformed religion, church government, much lesse, take away, gods word, best reformed, early works, creation partnership, text creation, generall assembly, two houses, textual changes, three kingdoms, amongst us, former times, god will, divine right, will never, almighty god, king iames, kings person, ever since, take notice, negative confession, majesties person, defects per, tell us, just power, one another, taken away

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Act of Council, for burning the Solemn League and Covenant, and several other traiterous libels. At Halyrudhouse, the fourteenth day of January, 1682 The generall demands, of the reverend doctors of divinitie, and ministers of the Gospell in Aberdene, concerning the late covenant, in Scotland together, with the answeres, replyes, and duplyes that followed thereupon, in the year, 1638 : reprinted in one book, by order of Parliament., and The life of Dr. Sanderson, late Bishop of Lincoln written by Izaak Walton ; to which is added, some short tracts or cases of conscience written by the said Bishop..

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:

covenant, king, god, church, parliament, oath, religion, lord, law, kingdome, government, england, roman, state, scots, majesties, league, kingdomes, churches, bishops, article, act, tcp, scripture, ministers, majesty, magistrate, laws, kirke, kingdoms, john, christ, authority, assembly, word, scotland, presbyters, majestie, lawes, kingdom, ireland, house, gods, episcopacy, english, discipline, christian, bishop, army, warner

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 god, and The snare is broken wherein is proved by Scripture, law and reason, that the Nationall covenant and oath was unlawfully given and taken ... : here also is vindicated the Parliaments later proceedings, shewing the grounds and principles of the London ministers to be weak and unsound ... : moreover something is said against violence in religion, and the duty of the civill magistrate about worship and church-government / by John Canne. 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?":

power, men, time, man, people, things, thing, p., way, reason, part, religion, words, others, kings, hath, selves, case, text, persons, times, nothing, conscience, day, truth, place, order, word, hands, cause, subjects, world, person, hand, peace, judgement, end, name, covenant, king, none, obedience, matter, discipline, sin, government, consent, work, life, ▪

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:

be, is, have, are, was, were, had, been, do, made, did, being, make, take, say, according, done, taken, give, said, let, know, see, having, concerning, put, come, given, found, set, am, hath, called, think, call, bound, endeavour, brought, swear, doe, preserve, prove, bring, keep, find, tell, established, stand, thought, seeing

Proper Nouns

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

god, covenant, church, king, parliament, oath, c., ye, england, bishops, lord, scotland, hath, law, 〉, government, christ, ◊, bishop, 〈, religion, ●, kingdome, doe, gods, act, majesties, lords, authority, mr., l., kingdomes, league, majesty, churches, episcopacy, english, kingdom, ministers, majestie, lawes, scots, assembly, r., commons, kings, laws, discipline, london, state

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, his, their, they, we, our, he, i, them, you, your, us, him, themselves, my, me, himself, its, her, thy, she, theirs, thee, yours, ours, ye, one, mine, ib, u, itself, non, whosoever, ourselves, f, ●, yee, whereof, us''d, ian, gods, y, s, ha, em, ''s, ſ, yow, yourself, ve

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, same, many, great, own, good, more, true, first, much, present, non, late, whole, -, last, former, roman, lawfull, contrary, particular, common, new, most, second, least, necessary, best, very, private, full, free, little, greater, better, able, old, high, like, holy, due, divine, sure, next, false, right, few, evident, early

not, so, then, more, now, as, therefore, yet, also, most, up, very, never, here, ever, well, only, onely, much, first, out, thus, even, rather, thereof, there, too, far, just, in, indeed, away, still, together, all, otherwise, no, long, whatsoever, before, especially, therein, again, down, already, thereby, often, at, off, else

Next steps

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