subject-oath-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.

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Size

There are 71 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 1,387,295 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 19,539 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 89. 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:

oath, god, may, will, one, man, law, haue, shall, men, yet, king, power, church, swear, swearing, first, christ, now, much, say, also, pope, therefore, made, without, great, many, doth, words, must, good, though, time, things, make, thing, lord, true, oaths, saith, vpon, truth, religion, take, might, barlow, reason, kings, well

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are De juramento seven lectures concerning the obligation of promissory oathes / read publicly in the divinity school of Oxford by Robert Sanderson ; translated into English by His Late Majesties speciall command and afterwards revised and approved under His Majesties own hand., A discussion of the ansvvere of M. VVilliam Barlovv, D. of Diuinity, to the booke intituled: The iudgment of a Catholike Englishman liuing in banishment for his religion &c. Concerning the apology of the new Oath of allegiance. VVritten by the R. Father, F. Robert Persons of the Society of Iesus. VVhervnto since the said Fathers death, is annexed a generall preface, laying open the insufficiency, rayling, lying, and other misdemeanour of M. Barlow in his writing., and A treatise of oaths containing several weighty reasons why the people call''d Qvakers refuse to swear : and those confirmed by numerous testimonies out of Gentiles, Jews and Christians, both fathers, doctors and martyrs : presented to the King and great council of England, assembled in Parliament..

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

early english, english books, roman non, books online, let vs, page images, set downe, text creation, creation partnership, must needs, haue beene, every man, taken away, man may, one another, haue bene, take away, let us, every one, king henry, holy ghost, much lesse, characters represented, image sets, tcp schema, represented either, temporall power, queene elizabeth, set forth, dispensative power, king iames, party swearing, new oath, might haue, almighty god, like manner, common wealth, without asking, christ jesus, one man, penal laws, old time, work described, jesus christ, asking permission, institutions providing, tcp assigned, images scanned, tiff page, commercial purposes

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are A discourse, shewing that it is lawfull, and our duty to swear obedience to King William, notwithstanding the oath of allegiance taken to the late King. By a divine in the north Some reasons humbly offered to the members of the House of Commons, why the bill that is before them, for making people called Quakers solemn affirmations in the presence of God, to be as valid and effectual in all courts and legal proceedings as swearing, they being subject to the pains of perjury, in case any of them affirms falsly., and A treatise of oaths containing several weighty reasons why the people call''d Qvakers refuse to swear : and those confirmed by numerous testimonies out of Gentiles, Jews and Christians, both fathers, doctors and martyrs : presented to the King and great council of England, assembled in Parliament..

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:

oath, god, tcp, king, law, lord, church, pope, religion, christ, conscience, truth, swearing, swear, laws, parliament, kingdome, authority, princes, oaths, government, england, emperour, covenant, allegiance, scriptures, prince, power, people, obedience, men, man, gospel, english, doctrine, christian, subiects, saviour, roman, reason, mat, kings, kingdom, jews, haue, gent, crown, councell, common, christians

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 Pseudo-martyr Wherein out of certaine propositions and gradations, this conclusion is euicted. That those which are of the Romane religion in this kingdome, may and ought to take the Oath of allegiance. 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:

1. haue - A discussion of the ansvvere of M. VVilliam Barlovv, D. of Diuinity, to the booke intituled: The iudgment of a Catholike Englishman liuing in banishment for his religion &c. Concerning the apology of the new Oath of allegiance. VVritten by the R. Father, F. Robert Persons of the Society of Iesus. VVhervnto since the said Fathers death, is annexed a generall preface, laying open the insufficiency, rayling, lying, and other misdemeanour of M. Barlow in his writing.
2. god - De juramento seven lectures concerning the obligation of promissory oathes / read publicly in the divinity school of Oxford by Robert Sanderson ; translated into English by His Late Majesties speciall command and afterwards revised and approved under His Majesties own hand.
3. king - To the Kings Most Excellent Majestie, the humble petition of the countie of Cornvvall

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:

1. god, oath, swear - De juramento seven lectures concerning the obligation of promissory oathes / read publicly in the divinity school of Oxford by Robert Sanderson ; translated into English by His Late Majesties speciall command and afterwards revised and approved under His Majesties own hand.
2. haue, barlow, doth - A discussion of the ansvvere of M. VVilliam Barlovv, D. of Diuinity, to the booke intituled: The iudgment of a Catholike Englishman liuing in banishment for his religion &c. Concerning the apology of the new Oath of allegiance. VVritten by the R. Father, F. Robert Persons of the Society of Iesus. VVhervnto since the said Fathers death, is annexed a generall preface, laying open the insufficiency, rayling, lying, and other misdemeanour of M. Barlow in his writing.
3. king, oath, power - The obligation resulting from the Oath of Supremacy to assist and defend the pre-eminence or prerogative of the dispensative power belonging to the King, his heirs and successors. In the asserting of that power various historical passages occurring in the usurpation after the year 1641. are occasionally mentioned; and an account is given at large of the progress of the power of dispensing as to acts of Parliament about religion since the reformation; and of divers judgments of Parliaments declaring their approbation of the exercise of such power, and particularly in what concerns the punishment of disability, or incapacity.
4. haue, hee, pope - Pseudo-martyr Wherein out of certaine propositions and gradations, this conclusion is euicted. That those which are of the Romane religion in this kingdome, may and ought to take the Oath of allegiance.
5. pope, power, church - Certain general reasons, prouing the lawfulnesse of the Oath of allegiance, written by R.S. priest, to his priuat friend. Whereunto is added, the treatise of that learned man, M. William Barclay, concerning the temporall power of the pope. And with these is ioyned the sermon of M. Theophilus Higgons, preached at Pauls Crosse the third of March last, because it containeth something of like argument

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?":

man, men, power, words, things, time, thing, oath, reason, truth, people, matter, kings, others, place, part, hath, religion, p., name, way, doth, nothing, swearing, text, faith, word, end, case, cause, conscience, law, authority, life, temporall, self, person, death, sense, manner, t, matters, one, nature, persons, none, hee, opinion, spirituall, day

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, are, were, have, had, do, did, said, being, say, swear, made, make, been, take, taken, see, let, according, haue, done, come, hath, know, called, set, concerning, put, give, given, swearing, am, doth, bee, having, find, bound, think, thought, doe, saith, read, brought, sworn, has, found, seeing, tell

Proper Nouns

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

god, oath, ●, c., king, christ, church, law, 〉, pope, m., 〈, ◊, hath, lord, haue, s., barlow, princes, oaths, de, england, swearing, prince, popes, thou, power, tcp, emperour, parliament, yea, christians, doe, pag, bishop, christian, rome, laws, english, l., conscience, act, authority, religion, allegiance, gods, owne, father, covenant, bellarmine

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, he, they, i, their, them, him, you, we, our, my, her, your, me, us, himself, she, themselves, thy, its, thee, theirs, one, ours, vp, mine, yours, ''em, vnto, ye, yow, l, hers, elias, whereof, ''s, ●, yt, whosoever, herself, hee, em, yf, vvith, s, ourselves, nay, itself, vvhat

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, true, good, more, first, much, own, whole, common, new, second, former, least, false, last, saith, little, most, like, greater, non, contrary, lawfull, roman, old, present, lawful, due, -, late, necessary, particular, very, early, general, better, english, third, haue, christian, ancient, doth, free, next, sufficient, certain

not, so, then, now, also, only, therefore, more, as, yet, very, well, most, much, thus, all, here, at, first, out, onely, rather, there, never, thereof, away, before, far, even, ever, up, too, in, indeed, otherwise, especially, no, forth, again, that, further, is, whatsoever, often, thereby, truly, still, once, long, together

Next steps

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