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ApprovedOrthographicPuritanRule #11

vvhichwhich

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Two v sorts set for w, as printers did when the w ran short or was missing from the fount.

Proposed by QA reviewer · Oct 19, 2026Approved by QA reviewer · Oct 19, 2026

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About 460 places across the Puritan corpus, estimated: 460 in a random sample of 70 of 7,722 works.

Drawn Oct 19, 2026, 6:06 PM against rule-set version 10 · 1 sample drawn · no exact count yet (the overnight batch count is not built). Shown in original spelling.

  1. …1+ letters⟧nte, maugre all the treasons and conspiracies vvhichwhich the Romish whore can haue against it. It is her Babylon that for a…

    Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 345 · Open in the reader

  2. …to be worship properly so called: and wil consider his reasons, vvhichwhich are tvvo, 1. praying & prophesying are ioyned togither ( sayth he)…

    Henry Ainsworth · A Defense of the Holy Scriptures · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  3. …things. First of their Treatise published on Mat. 18.17. touching vvhichwhich, I also have spoken before. Neyther is this point of the Churches…

    Henry Ainsworth · Animadversion to Cliftons Advertisement · p. 12 · Open in the reader

  4. …listen to you, or any seducer. And if there bee any heathen nation vvhichwhich hath hearde of the name Christ by you, and your polluted…

    Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 129 · Open in the reader

  5. …Edvvardes daies, vvere conditioned vvith to teach that Religion, vvhichwhich should bee established by the Parliament approaching. It is vvell…

    Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 103 · Open in the reader

  6. …God, where his condemnation is set downe. 3. By his owne conscience, vvhichwhich euery houre doth iudge and condemne him. Yet all this hinders not,…

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 98 · Open in the reader

  7. …since it is but the third houre of the day, but this is that vvhichwhich was spoken by the Prophet Ioel, And it shall be in the last daies…

    Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 283 · Open in the reader

  8. …the afflictions of this presente time, are not vvorthy of the glorye vvhichwhich shall bee revealed vnto vs. Can you vntill this day bringe your…

    Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 107 · Open in the reader

  9. …In another place he saith the Sun is Christ, the Moone the Church. VVhichWhich as on the one side it doth intimate vnto vs, that the Moone hath no…

    Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 32 · Open in the reader

  10. …20.25.26. 1. Pet. 5.1. Luk. 22.25.26. They streyn therfore too farr, vvhichwhich wil proportion the authoritie and power of the Elders that should…

    Henry Ainsworth · Animadversion to Cliftons Advertisement · p. 13 · Open in the reader

  11. …for neither the soule alone, nor the body alone, but the vvhole man (vvhichwhich differeth from both, and consisteth of both,) he is the subject of…

    Henry Ainsworth · Censure Upon the Dialogue of the Anabaptists · p. 38 · Open in the reader

  12. …nature, it vvas no part of worship properly so called: it vvas that vvhichwhich is cōmon to the Churches of all ages.

    Henry Ainsworth · A Defense of the Holy Scriptures · p. 40 · Open in the reader

  13. …and Rom. 4. Gal. 3.2 And Abraham beleeeving the promise of a seed, vvhichwhich beleefe was counted to him for righteousnesse, Gen. 15.5.6. beleeved…

    Henry Ainsworth · Censure Upon the Dialogue of the Anabaptists · Open in the reader

  14. …yea hovve much toward the North from thence is there, all vvhichwhich remaineth yet in the possession of meere Infidels, who neither have…

    Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 183 · Open in the reader

  15. …ornat; ornat, quod honestiorem facit: That alone doth beautifie, vvhichwhich doth beatifie, or make the soule happie: no ornament doth so grace…

    Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 73 · Open in the reader

  16. …in Mahomets profession, betweene the Turke and the Persian, vvhichwhich hath on either party cost much bloud, we say the Persian thus…

    Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 74 · Open in the reader

  17. …dies. Their Death is but like the taking in sunder of a Clocke, vvhichwhich is pulled a pieces by the makers hand, that it may bee scowred, and…

    Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 163 · Open in the reader

  18. I haue forced rayne out of the cloudes vvhichwhich before vvere drie. The soothsayers of Hetruria, as Sozomen doth…

    Archbishop George Abbot · Sermons on Jonah · p. 48 · Open in the reader

  19. …as it vvere thrust vppon them, base companions, a bastardlye broode, vvhichwhich have no learning, iudgement or anie other eminente parte to commend…

    Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 426 · Open in the reader

  20. …18.6.7.8.18. the Apostle speaketh of that one sinne or offence, by vvhichwhich we all (being in Adams loynes) are guiltie. Rom. 5.16▪ But to this…

    Henry Ainsworth · Censure Upon the Dialogue of the Anabaptists · p. 29 · Open in the reader

  21. …then in the case of the Sacrament. I receiued from the Lord, that vvhichwhich I also haue deliuered vnto you. So in the first to the Galathians,…

    Archbishop George Abbot · Sermons on Jonah · p. 355 · Open in the reader

  22. …their place in Christ above their ministers, 1. Cor. 3.21.22.23. vvhichwhich might also if it vvere vvel observed, end the strife that is novv…

    Henry Ainsworth · Animadversion to Cliftons Advertisement · p. 7 · Open in the reader

  23. …teach us two or moe circumcisions, one which Abraham had, another vvhichwhich other men had. But as there is one Lord, one faith, one baptisme,…

    Henry Ainsworth · Censure Upon the Dialogue of the Anabaptists · Open in the reader

  24. …who accused them for defrauding the State of the the treasure vvhichwhich they had taken in those Wars. When Antiochus was thus confirmed to…

    John Mayer · Commentary on the Old Testament Volume 2-4 · p. 128 · Open in the reader

  25. …the street by the vvater gate, that is, sayth Lyra, the Court, into vvhichwhich men assembled together to prayer and hearing of the Word, for this…

    John Mayer · Commentary on the Old Testament Volume 2-4 · p. 43 · Open in the reader

  26. …be, he holdeth it not sufficient to say, the citie is solitarie vvhichwhich vvas lately full of people, she is novv as a vvidovv, but in…

    Archbishop George Abbot · Sermons on Jonah · p. 255 · Open in the reader

  27. …the seconde, directly signifying so much. But there is nothing vvhichwhich maye more amply testifie the spreading of his doctrine, then an Acte…

    Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 49 · Open in the reader

  28. …the one, nor thou vvith the other. VVith authorities of Scriptures, vvhichwhich are vvitnesses not proper to either, but common to both, let matter…

    Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 355 · Open in the reader

  29. …many bloudy battells, and this was called the Lybian War, vvhichwhich according to some lasted three years, according to others foure, in…

    John Mayer · Commentary on the Old Testament Volume 2-4 · p. 113 · Open in the reader

  30. …sin, Christ had not: he is opposed herein to the Priests of the Law, vvhichwhich had infirmity or vveakenesse, Heb. 7, 27, 28, and 4, 15, But David…

    Henry Ainsworth · Censure Upon the Dialogue of the Anabaptists · p. 36 · Open in the reader

  31. …his, but of their loue vnto him. A. This is no answer to Joh. 13.1. vvhichwhich speaketh of Christs loue, not of theirs. Secondly, it is unpossible…

    Henry Ainsworth · Censure Upon the Dialogue of the Anabaptists · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  32. …the Turkes have farre greater reason then the Protestantes have, vvhichwhich Protestants by their doctrin make Christ the most simple & most…

    Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  33. …al the infants of many thousand families) vvere never baptised: vvhichwhich is contrary to the Apostles doctrine. And if infants had baptisme…

    Henry Ainsworth · Censure Upon the Dialogue of the Anabaptists · p. 60 · Open in the reader

  34. …for that men are proue to liberty, and to loosenesse of life, vvhichwhich by such doctrine is permitted. So that they are indeede most aptely…

    Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 172 · Open in the reader

  35. …eyther he must look for enthusiasmes, or revelations from heaven; (vvhichwhich some Anabaptists have dreamed of;) or els, he faleth to profanenes…

    Henry Ainsworth · A Defense of the Holy Scriptures · p. 58 · Open in the reader

  36. …his tongue eaten vppe with vvormes. Hee vtterlye expelled a Devill, vvhichwhich remooved out of one vvoman into another, and many other such matters…

    Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 249 · Open in the reader

  37. …the fl…sh, and so cannot saue any man: vvhichwhich vvords these men vvrest, as if it meant Adams children vveak. Which…

    Henry Ainsworth · Censure Upon the Dialogue of the Anabaptists · p. 33 · Open in the reader

  38. …things through our ignorance and frayltie might be doon amyss; for vvhichwhich vve have, and doo alvvayes humbly ask mercy of God, that even our…

    Henry Ainsworth · Animadversion to Cliftons Advertisement · p. 132 · Open in the reader

  39. This sanctitie is manifested in our obedience; vvhichwhich must be Ad totum; I had respect to all thy commandements. Per totum;…

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 95 · Open in the reader

  40. …I began to serve God, as I hardly have found better men then those vvhichwhich haue profited in monasteries, so I have not had triall of vvorse…

    Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 408 · Open in the reader

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  1. Proposed by QA reviewer · Oct 19, 2026, 6:06 PMversion 11
  2. Approved by QA reviewer · Oct 19, 2026, 6:06 PMversion 29

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