Early English Printed Sermons


The prisoners plaint a sermon preached by Gualter Ashton, Master of Arts, prisoner in the Kings Bench for debt, before the imprisoned and others in that place, vpon the 25. of August. 1622.

Ashton, Walter, b. 1585 or 6
Publisher: Printed by Augustine Mathewes
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1623
Approximate Era: JamesI
TCP ID: A22051 ESTC ID: S100269 STC ID: 843
Subject Headings: Imprisonment; Sermons, English -- 17th century;
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Textual Features and Statistics

Nota Bene: QP stands for "quotation/paraphrase." A "unit" stands for a segment produced by EEPS' segmentation unit or an individual marginal note. Adjacent references are those that are located in the same or adjacent segment or note. Chapter-level citations are relevant if the chapter matches that of the query. For book-level queries, all references to the same Bible book are relevant. A "Latin Bible QP" is a quotation or paraphrase of any verse from a Bible that follows the Latin Vulgate tradition: the Vulgate, Douay-Rheims Version, the ODRV, and Wycliffe's version.
Feature Description In-Text Marginal
cited Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent citation 9.1% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 4.8% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 84.1% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 1.4% -inf%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 1.4% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 10.6% -inf%
sim_score Average cosine similarity score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.7% -inf%
cross_score Average cross encoder score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.6% -inf%
near_quotations Percentage of units that have high lexical similarity with their Bible verse predictions (any type of score greater than the mean + standard deviation of that score type) 1.9% -inf%
foreign_cited Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 1.4% -inf%
foreign_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 1.0% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 1.4% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent citation 1.4% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 1.0% -inf%



Quotations and Paraphrases

Rather than examine the frequency or proportion of references, it is far more useful to determine which references are most prominent for a citing entity. The visualizations below show the most prominent scriptural references within all publications per year. Prominence, displayed as the value below each label, is measured using the metric of Outgoing Relative Citational Prominence (ORCP) proposed by Wahle et al. (2023). In this case, a positive prominence value for a reference R in a given year means that R constitutes a greater percentage of all the references cited by publications in that year than the average citation percentage of R per year. A negative value indicates that a given reference constitutes a proportion lesser than average. A value of negative infinity means that the query reference does not occur in the citation or QP of a citing entity. A value of "%" (without any numeral value) means that there are no citations or QP corresponding to the query reference.

For quotational prominence, only the predictions with the highest cosine similarity scores for each subsegmented or whole unit of a segment or note are included for consideration. The average quotational prominence for a citing entity is the mean of the prominence percentage points for all references R_ALL that are relevant to the query reference such that each reference R in R_ALL has the highest cosine similarity score with a part or the whole of its covering body segment or marginal note. The percentages of top predictions from each Bible version are displayed in a table below.

For citational prominence, only pluasible scriptural citations and ones where the original phrase does not begin with a lowercase word are included for consideration. A scriptural citation is plausible if its numbering exists in any of the Bibles considered by this project. There are over 76 thousand such excluded candidates out of 1.2 million parsed citational units in total. Each of the four side-by-side tables below also have associated diversity and evenness scores; Simpson's Diversity Index ranges from 0 to 1 such that a higher score indicates a greater species diversity. Likewise, the Shannon Index indicates more evenness in the distribution of individuals in a group when its value approaches 1.


Diversity: 0.9
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Apocrypha (AKJV) 5.442
New Testament (Vulgate) 5.191
Old Testament (ODRV) 3.631
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 1.448
Old Testament (Geneva) 0.065
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.022
New Testament (Geneva) -1.058
New Testament (ODRV) -1.138
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.046
New Testament (AKJV) -2.428
Diversity: 0.963
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
2 Peter (Vulgate) 3.658
Canticles (Geneva) 3.538
Lamentations (Geneva) 3.482
2 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 3.386
2 Chronicles (AKJV) 3.354
1 Peter (ODRV) 3.27
Revelation (AKJV) 3.169
Job (Douay-Rheims) 3.127
1 Peter (Geneva) 3.121
Exodus (AKJV) 3.121
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 3.063
James (AKJV) 3.058
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 2.955
Luke (Tyndale) 2.928
1 Peter (AKJV) 2.916
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 2.896
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 2.828
Luke (Geneva) 2.805
Romans (Tyndale) 2.716
Hebrews (AKJV) 2.676
Matthew (Geneva) 2.542
Luke (AKJV) 2.506
Psalms (ODRV) 2.493
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 2.432
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.136
Psalms (Geneva) 1.889
Psalms (AKJV) 0.922
Diversity: 0.971
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
2 Peter 3 (Vulgate) 2.939
Psalms 80 (ODRV) 2.936
2 Kings 14 (Douay-Rheims) 2.932
Canticles 6 (Geneva) 2.931
2 Chronicles 28 (AKJV) 2.93
Exodus 5 (AKJV) 2.927
Ecclesiasticus 31 (AKJV) 2.926
Psalms 56 (AKJV) 2.923
Ecclesiasticus 50 (AKJV) 2.922
Psalms 130 (Geneva) 2.921
Job 5 (Douay-Rheims) 2.919
Revelation 12 (AKJV) 2.918
Proverbs 6 (Douay-Rheims) 2.914
Luke 24 (Geneva) 2.912
Luke 24 (AKJV) 2.912
1 Peter 4 (ODRV) 2.908
Romans 11 (Tyndale) 2.906
Isaiah 55 (Douay-Rheims) 2.898
Luke 22 (Tyndale) 2.898
2 Corinthians 1 (Geneva) 2.894
Psalms 77 (AKJV) 2.893
Psalms 113 (ODRV) 2.892
Luke 16 (Tyndale) 2.869
1 Peter 5 (Geneva) 2.861
Matthew 7 (Geneva) 2.855
Lamentations 3 (Geneva) 2.848
Psalms 2 (AKJV) 2.835
1 Peter 1 (Geneva) 2.833
1 Peter 4 (AKJV) 2.816
Psalms 119 (Geneva) 2.815
Hebrews 12 (AKJV) 2.812
James 1 (AKJV) 2.796
1 Corinthians 11 (AKJV) 2.755
1 Corinthians 15 (Geneva) 2.68
Diversity: 0.971
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
1 Peter 4.12 (ODRV) 2.857
Psalms 130.1 (Geneva) 2.856
Psalms 80.13 (ODRV) 2.856
Psalms 130.2 (Geneva) 2.856
2 Peter 3.6 (Vulgate) 2.856
Ecclesiasticus 31.26 (AKJV) 2.856
Luke 24.26 (AKJV) 2.856
2 Kings 14.31 (Douay-Rheims) 2.856
Ecclesiasticus 50.7 (AKJV) 2.856
Romans 11.33 (Tyndale) 2.855
Revelation 12.6 (AKJV) 2.855
Psalms 113.14 (ODRV) 2.855
Hebrews 12.22 (AKJV) 2.855
Proverbs 6.4 (Douay-Rheims) 2.854
Matthew 7.17 (Geneva) 2.854
2 Corinthians 1.6 (Geneva) 2.854
Job 5.17 (Douay-Rheims) 2.854
Luke 22.42 (Tyndale) 2.854
Psalms 56.11 (AKJV) 2.854
Canticles 6.12 (Geneva) 2.853
1 Peter 1.6 (Geneva) 2.853
1 Peter 4.1 (AKJV) 2.852
Luke 24.26 (Geneva) 2.852
Exodus 5.2 (AKJV) 2.852
2 Chronicles 28.22 (AKJV) 2.852
Lamentations 3.39 (Geneva) 2.85
1 Corinthians 11.32 (AKJV) 2.848
James 1.3 (AKJV) 2.848
Psalms 119.71 (Geneva) 2.848
Luke 16.22 (Tyndale) 2.846
Isaiah 55.6 (Douay-Rheims) 2.846
1 Peter 5.6 (Geneva) 2.844
Psalms 2.9 (AKJV) 2.843
Psalms 77.9 (AKJV) 2.843
1 Corinthians 15.19 (Geneva) 2.834
Segment No., Location Verse & Version Verse Text Text Is a Partial Textual Segment/Note Adjacent References Cosine Similarity Score Cross Encoder Score Okapi BM25 Score



Citations
i
The index of citation indicates its position within the text of the segment or a particular note of the segment. For example, if 'Note 0' (i.e., the first note) of this segment has three citations, the citation with index 0 is its first citation, inclusive of all its parsed components.

Diversity: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament 2.666
New Testament 1.805
Diversity: 0.929
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Lamentations 6.45
Canticles 6.446
Judges 6.045
2 Chronicles 5.907
1 Kings 5.666
1 Peter 5.112
Exodus 5.028
Revelation 5.017
Jeremiah 4.901
Job 4.9
Luke 3.925
1 Corinthians 3.853
Romans 3.188
Psalms 1.971
Diversity: 0.95
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
2 Chronicles 33 4.964
Exodus 8 4.959
1 Kings 4 4.958
1 Kings 17 4.949
Canticles 6 4.947
Psalms 130 4.932
1 Kings 19 4.914
Jeremiah 2 4.894
Job 5 4.883
Revelation 12 4.875
Lamentations 3 4.866
Luke 24 4.855
Judges 5 4.847
Psalms 4 4.841
1 Peter 4 4.807
Psalms 2 4.732
Romans 5 4.713
Luke 16 4.682
1 Peter 1 4.674
1 Corinthians 15 4.565
Diversity: 0.955
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Jeremiah 2.1 4.544
Lamentations 3.4 4.544
2 Chronicles 33.10 4.544
2 Chronicles 33.4 4.544
Exodus 8.5 4.544
Lamentations 3.54 4.543
Canticles 6.1 4.543
Judges 5.21 4.542
Canticles 6.13 4.542
Job 5.17 4.542
Psalms 130.1 4.539
1 Peter 4.1 4.537
Luke 24.26 4.537
Jeremiah 2.2 4.536
Romans 5.4 4.535
Exodus 8.9 4.532
1 Kings 19.4 4.531
1 Peter 1.6 4.529
1 Peter 1.7 4.527
1 Corinthians 15.19 4.525
Romans 5.3 4.523
Luke 16.22 4.516
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase