Distant Reader - subject-divineRightOfKings-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 40 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 1,541,823 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 38,545 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 90. 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, god, power, may, people, kings, will, law, one, parliament, man, shall, men, made, yet, de, great, must, government, make, church, us, good, without, first, now, laws, therefore, non, much, many, right, lord, time, say, subjects, authority, england, prince, well, saith, every, though, might, reason, never, take, act, lords, give

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Lex, rex The law and the prince : a dispute for the just prerogative of king and people : containing the reasons and causes of the most necessary defensive wars of the kingdom of Scotland and of their expedition for the ayd and help of their dear brethren of England : in which their innocency is asserted and a full answer is given to a seditious pamphlet intituled Sacro-sancta regum majestas, or, The sacred and royall prerogative of Christian kings, under the name of J. A. but penned by Jo. Maxwell the excommunicate P. Prelat. : with a scripturall confutation of the ruinous grounds of W. Barclay, H. Grotius, H. Arnisœus, Ant. de Domi P. Bishop of Spalata, and of other late anti-magistratical royalists, as the author of Ossorianum, D. Fern, E. Symmons, the doctors of Aberdeen, &c. : in XLIV questions., Investigatio jurium antiquorum et rationalium Regni, sive, Monarchiae Angliae in magnis suis conciliis seu Parliamentis. The first tome et regiminis cum lisden in suis principiis optimi, or, a vindication of the government of the kingdom of England under our kings and monarchs, appointed by God, from the opinion and claim of those that without any warrant or ground of law or right reason, the laws of God and man, nature and nations, the records, annals and histories of the kingdom, would have it to be originally derived from the people, or the King to be co-ordinate with his Houses of Peers and Commons in Parliament / per Fabianum Philipps., and Salmasius his buckler, or, A royal apology for King Charles the martyr dedicated to Charles the Second, King of Great Brittain..

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

roman non, king henry, king edward, every one, let us, early english, english books, take away, king charles, every man, divine right, higher powers, books online, lords anointed, th year, king iames, royall power, must needs, tells us, supreme power, queen elizabeth, king may, one man, king james, page images, inferiour iudges, lords spiritual, soveraign power, people may, common people, de jure, regal power, text creation, creation partnership, magna charta, ever since, will find, almighty god, king john, dispensative power, common law, may say, holy ghost, gods word, god almighty, gods law, one another, high treason, taken away, absolute power

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are An answer by letter to a worthy gentleman who desired of a divine some reasons by which it might appeare how inconsistent presbyteriall government is with monarchy. In which the platforme of that government is briefly delineated, with the tenents and suitable practices thereof. And withall it is demonstrated, that it is inconsistent with any government whatsoever; is full of faction, sedition and treason; an enemy to all peace, domesticall, neighbourly, brotherly, &c. against soveraigne authority, authority of all iudges, and iudicatories, entrenching upon all so farre, as there can be no liberty of person, trade, commerce or propriety, but at their pleasure who bear sway therein. Lingua testium: wherein monarchy is proved, 1. To be jure divino. 2. To be successive in the Church (except in time of a nationall desertion) from Adam untill Christ. 3. That monarchy is the absolute true government under the Gospel. 4. That immediately after extraordinary gifts in the Church ceased, God raised up a monarch for to defend the Church. 5. That Christian monarchs are one of the witnesses spoken of Rev. 11. 6. That England is the place from whence God fetched the first witnesse of this kind. 7. England was the place whither the witnesses, (viz. godly magistracy and ministry) never drove by Antichrist. Where is proved, first, that there hath been a visible magistracy, (though in sackcloth,) these 1260. yeares in England. ... Amongst these things are proved that the time of the calling of the Jews, the fall of Antichrist, and the ruine of the Beast of the earth is at hand. Wherein you have the hard places of Mat. 24, and Rev. 17. explained with severall other hard texts: ... / Written by Testis-Mundus Catholicus, in the yeare of the Beasts of the earth''s raign, 1651., and Royalty and loyalty or A short survey of the power of kings over their subjects: and the duty of subjects to their kings. Abstracted out of ancient and later writers, for the better composeing of these present distempers: and humbly presented to ye consideration of his Ma.tie. and both Howses of Parliament, for the more speedy effecting of a pacification / by Ro: Grosse dd: 1647.

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:

king, god, church, law, prince, government, power, lord, state, religion, people, laws, roman, parliament, kingdom, authority, subjects, tcp, crown, bishops, scripture, pope, oath, monarchy, majesty, house, father, england, court, act, world, statute, soveraign, saviour, realm, nation, lords, land, christ, apostle, man, gospel, commons, clergy, city, army, word, tyrant, truth, title

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 The tenure of kings and magistrates proving that it is lawfull, and hath been held so through all ages, for any who have the power, to call to account a tyrant, or wicked king, and after due conviction, to depose and put the author, J.M. 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, people, kings, man, men, king, time, subjects, p., reason, things, thing, part, way, hath, ad, words, person, law, others, government, nothing, nature, case, none, right, self, place, religion, day, cause, hand, year, world, times, end, word, life, hands, body, doth, one, laws, death, title, authority, truth, ▪, text, manner

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, was, have, are, were, had, made, do, did, being, make, been, say, said, take, give, given, done, let, put, according, see, come, called, taken, having, hath, think, know, set, has, resist, find, sent, am, prove, granted, defend, gave, tell, came, bound, call, concerning, read, making, brought, thought, found

Proper Nouns

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

king, god, parliament, 〉, law, ◊, 〈, church, lord, c., de, prince, england, power, laws, government, hath, lords, commons, princes, authority, kingdom, oath, christ, house, gods, crown, kings, ●, act, david, bishops, majesty, l., e., henry, est, thou, state, father, bishop, statute, court, monarchy, pope, edward, mr., royall, saul, sir

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?"

his, it, he, their, they, i, them, him, our, we, you, us, your, themselves, my, himself, her, me, its, thy, she, thee, one, theirs, ye, ours, mine, yours, ib, whereof, l, itself, u, yee, ourselves, ha, us''d, non, elias, f, au, ●, y, whosoever, unking''d, tollit, je, ian, herself, ce

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, great, own, many, same, good, more, first, non, true, much, -, roman, whole, common, saith, new, lawfull, subject, free, better, absolute, little, former, high, private, present, particular, lawful, last, greater, best, necessary, late, wicked, most, ancient, very, contrary, due, several, least, second, right, like, greatest, sacred, unjust, next

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

Next steps

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