Sir Simonds D’Ewes and “the Poitovin Cholick”: Persecution, Toleration, and the Mind of a Puritan Member of the Long Parliament
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 1637, Sir Simonds D’Ewes, MP, wrote a short treatise entitled The Primitive Practise For Preserving Truth. In it he argued that religious persecution was antichristian and that “tender consciences” should be protected and accommodated rather than forced. Knowing that the licensing authorities would reject it, D’Ewes did not publish his work until 1645. He chose to print it at precisely the moment when the Scots and their allies in the Westminster Assembly and the Long Parliament were pushing hard to instill a Presbyterian church government in England. Although D’Ewes has been called a Presbyterian, his position in this treatise is more in line with the Independents. Speaking in the House of Commons on April 24, 1645, he heatedly opposed a proposal to settle control of admission to the Eucharist in local presbyteries. Besides its importance for the debate on toleration, the historical and theological argument in The Primitive Practise is also valuable for the insights it provides into D’Ewes’s political outlook and his behavior as a Parliamentarian.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.024 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
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".