Bibliographic record
Abstract
In an act of characteristic prescience and with lawyerly clarity, More composed his own epitaph, which he had cut in stone and which survives to this day in Chelsea Old Church. It was the month following his resignation as lord chancellor of England, some eight months before King Henry VIII sought his arrest and two years before his execution. He sent a copy with a letter of explanation (in Latin, like the epitaph) to his great Dutch friend Erasmus for publication and dissemination on the Continent, describing the epitaph as ‘a public declaration of the actual facts’, which anyone could refute if they were able ( SL 178–83, at 179). In the epitaph More presents himself as a Londoner, alludes briefly to his literary interests and underscores his several years spent as a pleader in the law courts. He then lists his various public offices, duties and particular achievements in an admirably compressed form which conveys much about the period 1518–32, which primarily concerns this chapter: [A]fter having held the office of judge as an Under-Sheriff in his native city, he was admitted to the Court by the Unconquerable Henry the Eighth, who is the only King ever to have received the unique distinction of meriting the title ‘Defender of the Faith’, a title earned by deeds of sword and pen; he was received at Court, chosen member of the King’s Council, knighted, appointed Under-Treasurer and then Chancellor of Lancaster, and finally, Chancellor of England by the special favor of his Sovereign. Meanwhile he was elected Speaker of the House of Commons; furthermore, he served as the King’s ambassador at various times and in various places, last of all at Cambrai. ( SL 181)
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.072 | 0.010 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".