‘The Pen lookes to be canoniz’d’: John Newdigate III, Author and Scribe
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
We provide evidence for the authorship of a previously anonymous Caroline play, The Humorous Magistrate, currently held at the University of Calgary. Using the paleographic evidence of digital hand comparison charts, which compare exemplary letter-forms from handwritten documents, we contend that both versions of The Humorous Magistrate, along with numerous other plays and texts, were written and authored by John Newdigate III of Arbury Hall (1600-1642), a country gentleman working within a dynamic literary coterie based in the West Midlands. These hand charts map both the continuation and the evolution of his secretary and italic script, demonstrating that Newdigate was acutely attuned to the changing currents of early modern scribal culture. As author of The Humorous Magistrate and various other poems and plays, Newdigate can with reason be added to the group of amateur Caroline dramatists which includes the likes of John Suckling, Mildmay Fane, and William Cavendish.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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