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Over the past few decades, several digitization campaigns have provided researchers access to historical texts on a much wider scale than previously possible. For example, Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is an impressive digitized collection of over 200,000 texts that claims to contain ‘every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom between the years 1701 and 1800’(Gale 2016). ECCO and other large text collections are important resources for historical corpus linguists (Tolonen et al. 2021) as well as other scholars ranging from historians (Holahan 2018) to literary (Damian-Grint 2013) and legal scholars (Solan and Gales 2017). Many of the currently available historical databases, however, have little extralinguistic information on texts, such as register (Kytö 2019), which hinders their usefulness in historical studies (Holahan 2018). Register, a …