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The MarineLives wiki contains nearly six million words of semi-diplomatically transcribed early and mid-C17th legal and commercial text. This is one of the larger collections of text derived from C17th manuscript sources, and is certainly the largest English language collection derived from early and mid C17th legal and commercial manuscript sources.

The MarineLives project team is keen to explore the corpus linguistic potential of the material, and welcomes approaches from corpus and historical linguists, interested in discussing this potential.

Potential etymological use

'Menagery, -ie, Mannagerie, Managary, n.', Dictionary of the Scots Language, Dictionar o the Scots Leid, online web resource

• ASSEVERATION

- "...the sayd Dirick Dobler in discourse with this deponent touching the premisses did assure this deponent with much asseveration that the sayd goods were all free and for Hamburgh and merchants there living onely or to that purpose..." (Jan 1653/54)^[1]

• DAMASKILLIAS

- "...sixe peeces of damaskillias or floramides..." (Apr 1657)^[2]

• HURRICANO; HURRICANOE; HURRICANE; HURRICAN^[3]

- "...a furious hurricano, which continued in very great extremity for about five or six and thirty howres..." (Mar 1655/56)^[4]
- "...the sayd shipp under the command of George Boys arlate departed with her lading of sugars from the Barbadoes bound for this Port of London in the month of August last past and that afterwards being upon her Course a violent storme or hurricano..." (Mar 1655/56)^[5]
- "...the sayd sugars were not all dry and well conditioned after the sayd hurricano but were damnifiyed (as aforesayd) thereby, howbeit some of them as he conceyveth did remain dry. And saith that the sayd shipp was not tight after the sayd hurrican (sic)..." (Mar 1655/56)^[6]
- "...at the arrivall of the said ship at Nevis this deponent found that hurricanoes and stormes which had bin very violent in those parts had blowne downe the tobacco plants indicoes, and Sugar canes there, and spoyled most of them..." (Mar 1659)^[7]
- "...the first storme predeposed of was a hurricano which is usually soe violent that few shipps are able to withstand them..." (Jun 1656)^[8]
- "[WITHIN THE EAST INDIES]...goeing for another port shee was by violence of the hurricanes cast away and utterly lost..." (Nov 1660)^[9]

• MANNAGERIE; MANNAGERY; MANNAGEMENT^[10]

- "...the same were wholely left (as beleeveth) to the mannagerie of the foresayd William Warren who disposed of them at the place predeposed and went with the proceede of them to the Canaries..." (Jun 1658))^[11]
- "...hee this deponent is a factor and agent to the articulate Antonio Rodrigues Robles here at London and soe hath bin for these five yeares last past or thereabouts and imployed by him in keepeing his accompts and mannagerie of his merchandizeing affayres..." (Jul 1658)^[12]
- "...hee was by the sayd Brewer and Crispe intrusted to goe supracargo upon the sayd shipp and voyage, as well for the mannagement of their sayd five eighth parts as for him selfe and the mannagery of the sayd three eighth parts of the sayd shipp soe lett to him the sayd Wood by the sayd Grove..." (Jan 1658/59)^[13]

• OFFAYRES; AFFARES; AFFAYRES^[14]

- "...sent letters of advice thither to two factors there about his merchandizing offayres under that name..." (Jul 1658)^[15]
- "...you cannot expect any acting as to merchandizing affares trading having beene at a stand ffor this 12 month past..." (Jan 1665/66)^[16]
- "...intend now to give you a breefe relation what past since in that affare..." (Jan 1665/66)^[17]

• RUCKOO

- "[At Brazil] tooke in a sort of ffish called mannettee and dying-stuff called ruckoo..." (Oct 1655)^[18]

• STIRK; STOAT^[19]; ^[20]

- "[SHPPED FROM BERWICK UPON TWEED TO LONDON] [Item] 21 Stephen Jackson master 16 last and 9 barrells of salmon by last hyde and stoe(or a. or r)ks] skinns 52 dry horse skins calfe and stirks 65 skins: 160 sherlinge and lambeskins per certificate 2 Ocober 1657"^[21]

Potential creation of glossaries

• EXAMPLE: Communal C17th Textiles, Garments and Dyestuffs Glossary

Potential Natural Language Programming use

Ritze, Dominique and Zirn, Cäcilia and Greenstreet, Colin and Eckert, Kai and Ponzetto, Simone Paolo (2014) Named Entities in Court: The MarineLives Corpus. In: Language Resources and Technologies for Processing and Linking Historical Documents and Archives - Deploying Linked Open Data in Cultural Heritage Workshop : associated with the LREC 2014 Conference, 26 - 30 May 2014, Reykjavik 2014 Reykjavik, Conference or workshop item

In 2014, MarineLives collaborated with a team at the University of Mannheim Informatics Department, led by Professor Kai Eckert, to explore the application of Natural Language Programming to the MarineLives corpus.

The output of this collaboration was a paper given in Reykjavik at a workshop on Language Resources and Technologies for Processing and Linking Historical Documents and Archives in association with the LREC Conference, May 2014.^[22]

Potential ground base for machine learning

• Source of data on C17th handwritten orthographical variation

[ADD DATA]

1. ↑ HCA 13/68 f.555r
2. ↑ HCA 13/71 f.574v; Edward A. Roberts, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots: Volume I (A-G) (2014), p.481, accessed 10/01/2018
3. ↑ 'Hurricane', Memidex, online dictionary, thesaurus and more, accessed 10/01/2018
4. ↑ HCA 13/71 f.122v
5. ↑ HCA 13/71 f.123r
6. ↑ HCA 13/71 f.124r
7. ↑ HCA 13/73 f.106v
8. ↑ HCA 13/71 f.256v
9. ↑ HCA 13/73 f.643v
10. ↑ 'Menagery, -ie, Mannagerie, Managary, n.', Dictionary of the Scots Language, Dictionar o the Scots Leid, online web resource, accessed 10/01/2018
11. ↑ HCA 13/72 f.377v
12. ↑ HCA 13/72 f.386r
13. ↑ HCA 13/73 f.1r
14. ↑ 'Affair, Affare, n. Also: affayr, affeaire, auffaire. See further Effair n. [Late ME. affayre (Caxton), e.m.E. affaire, OF. afaire. A later form of Affere n.', in Dictionary of the Scots Language, Dictionar o the Scots Leid, online web resource, accessed 10/01/2018
15. ↑ HCA 13/72 f.386r
16. ↑ BL, Add. MS. 40, 700, vol. v, ff. 6-7, '3rd January 1665/66, Letter from William Ryder, Bethnall Green, to Sir George Oxenden, Surat
17. ↑ BL, Add. MS. 40, 700, vol. v, ff. 6-7, '3rd January 1665/66, Letter from William Ryder, Bethnall Green, to Sir George Oxenden, Surat
18. ↑ HCA 13/70 f.612r
19. ↑ 'Stirk, Styrk, n. Also: stirke, stirc-, stirck, sterk, steirk, stark, strik.', in A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700), online web resource, accesed 12/01/2018
20. ↑ 'Stot, Stoit, n.1 Also: stott, stote, stoitt, stoyt, stuit, stoat, stoot. [ME and e.m.E. stott- (1222), stot (Chaucer), stotte (c1450), OE stot(t. Cf. ON stútr bull.', in A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700), online web resource], accessed 12/01/2018
21. ↑ E 190/46/2 f.17v
22. ↑ Ritze, Dominique and Zirn, Cäcilia and Greenstreet, Colin and Eckert, Kai and Ponzetto, Simone Paolo (2014) Named Entities in Court: The MarineLives Corpus. In: Language Resources and Technologies for Processing and Linking Historical Documents and Archives - Deploying Linked Open Data in Cultural Heritage Workshop : associated with the LREC 2014 Conference, 26 - 30 May 2014, Reykjavik 2014 Reykjavik, Conference or workshop item, accessed 10/01/2018