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The New Hampshire Gazette Foreign News December 2, 1756
Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
Admiral Byng was moved from Portsmouth to Greenwich under guard and lodged in a high garret at the hospital, which he resented; he declared he would convince the world he had done his duty.
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Measured from the scan
— how cleanly the OCR engine read the characters
- Mean ink quality
- 99.0% The length-weighted average confidence across the OCR lines — the mean of exactly the per-line scores whose tails the two figures below report. Typical is 99%.
- Illegible ink
- 0.0% Text sitting in OCR-detected lines that scored below 80% confidence — very shaky reads. Weighted by line length, so one long bad line counts for more than a short one.
- Uncertain ink
- 0.0% Text in lines that scored 80–90% — somewhat shaky reads.
- Matches source
- 96.56% How closely the served text matches the raw OCR of the same boxes, letter by letter, after collapsing spacing and case. This measures agreement, not correctness: the OCR is often wrong and the extractor corrects it, so 100% does not mean perfect, and a low figure usually means poor scan text was rewritten rather than that text was lost (length vs source shows loss).
- Length vs source
- 99.06% Below 100% means text was dropped from the OCR; above means text was added to make it read.
Assembled by the extraction model
— whether the stitched-together text holds up; catches layout and segmentation errors, which the scores above cannot see
- Transcription confidence
- 96.0% (typical 96%) How cleanly the extractor could assemble what it was given. Low here with clean ink scores points at layout analysis — the characters were read correctly but grouped or ordered wrongly.
- Comprehension
- 95.0% Whether the piece reads coherently start to finish. Can stay high while transcription confidence drops, when only part of the component is affected.
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Full Text
At 3 this morning Adm. Byng set out from Portsmouth under the conduct of a party of the guards. He was convey'd to Greenwich without the least disturbance, and lodged in an apartment of the hospital there 170 steps high. It is reported, that on his arrival he express'd himself in this manner: "That as he was the son of a peer, a member of parliament, and a vice admiral in the British fleet, to be shut up in so mean an apartment in a garret, was using him very ill: adding, that he would convince the world that he had done his duty." This usage he highly resented, insomuch that he did not go to bed for two nights, but lay upon the floor, seemingly in good spirits, as if he apprehended the charge could not be made good against him.
What sub-type of article is it?
Naval Affairs
What keywords are associated?
Admiral Byng
Greenwich Hospital
Custody
Portsmouth
What entities or persons were involved?
Adm. Byng
Where did it happen?
Portsmouth / Greenwich, England
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Portsmouth / Greenwich, England
Event Date
This Morning
Key Persons
Adm. Byng