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fraunceFrance

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it
1,276 times in 208 works
Consistency
96.1% (1,276 of 1,327)
Reach if approved
~1,394 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: france
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,327 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,276 changes in 208 works, 96.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,276)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … ded forswere hym self shuld lose his lyue & goodes. Item Philippe the kynge of FraunceFrance / whom so euer he perceyued / that eyther in taue…ne / or enye wher elles …
    With rule
    … ded forswere hym self shuld lose his lyue & goodes. Item Philippe the kynge of FraunceFrance / whom so euer he perceyued / that eyther in taue…ne / or enye wher elles …

    Miles Coverdale · A Christian Exhortation Unto Customable Swearers · p. 23 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … proſper, let flouriſh, as long, as mortality may endure, evē Iames of England, Scotland, FraunceFrance and Ireland King, togither with our ſoveraigne Ladie Anne, his ſpouſe; with Henry Prince …
    With rule
    … proſper, let flouriſh, as long, as mortality may endure, evē Iames of England, Scotland, FraunceFrance and Ireland King, togither with our ſoveraigne Ladie Anne, his ſpouſe; with Henry Prince …

    William Hubbock · An Oration Gratulatory to King James · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … at all wyth hym, but played me the Satrapa, so that the Regente of FraunceFrance was faine to be sēt for frō beyōd the Seas, to set theim at …
    With rule
    … at all wyth hym, but played me the Satrapa, so that the Regente of FraunceFrance was faine to be sēt for frō beyōd the Seas, to set theim at …

    Hugh Latimer · The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … lyke reaſon, in the yeares paſſed, the Emperour tooke and vanquiſhed the kyng of FraunceFrance, notwithſtanding he farre paſſed him in ſtrēgth of mē. Where he ſaith, that running …
    With rule
    … lyke reaſon, in the yeares paſſed, the Emperour tooke and vanquiſhed the kyng of FraunceFrance, notwithſtanding he farre paſſed him in ſtrēgth of mē. Where he ſaith, that running …

    Martin Luther · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … of the fleashe. yf in be houlding the state of the lowe coutreys, & of FraunceFrance thou wouldest haue so resoned with thy self thou mightest easylie haue giuen the …
    With rule
    … of the fleashe. yf in be houlding the state of the lowe coutreys, & of FraunceFrance thou wouldest haue so resoned with thy self thou mightest easylie haue giuen the …

    Martin Marprelate · Protestation · p. 6 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    I Vnderſtand by your letters, that many as well in FraunceFrance, as in other places, haue wryttē vnto you ye horrible brute flowen in to …
    With rule
    I Vnderſtand by your letters, that many as well in FraunceFrance, as in other places, haue wryttē vnto you ye horrible brute flowen in to …

    Philipp Melanchthon · History of Three Renowned Reformers · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    But leauing FraunceFrance a whiles, let vs cast our eyes nowe vpon Germany, where also I knowe …
    With rule
    But leauing FraunceFrance a whiles, let vs cast our eyes nowe vpon Germany, where also I knowe …

    John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … whether they were preſent or abſent. Alſo in the Councell of Rhenes, holden in FraunceFrance about the ſame time, the like decree was made cap. 15. that biſhops ſtudie to …
    With rule
    … whether they were preſent or abſent. Alſo in the Councell of Rhenes, holden in FraunceFrance about the ſame time, the like decree was made cap. 15. that biſhops ſtudie to …

    William Fulke · Answer to the Proud Challenge of a Counterset Catholic · p. 40 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (51)

49 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 23 are listed here. 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Acts of English Votaries A02573

  • Printed
    … and fort chaptre of hys Chronycles, reporteth both, that Philip the Apostle preached in fraunceFrance to the verye extent of the Occeane see, ād was afterwarde done vnto deathe …
    With rule
    … and fort chaptre of hys Chronycles, reporteth both, that Philip the Apostle preached in fraunceFrance to the verye extent of the Occeane see, ād was afterwarde done vnto deathe …

    John Bale · The Acts of English Votaries · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … mynge hytherwarde, specyallye at a vyllage called Saye, within the coūtye of Angeu in fraunceFrance. In the which was buylded immedyatlye after, a churche (they saye) in the honour …
    With rule
    … mynge hytherwarde, specyallye at a vyllage called Saye, within the coūtye of Angeu in fraunceFrance. In the which was buylded immedyatlye after, a churche (they saye) in the honour …

    John Bale · The Acts of English Votaries · p. 24 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … at the hygh feastes. An other abbeye was buylden afore that at floriake in fraunceFrance, and not farre from orlyaunce, in the yeare of our lorde .DC.li. These …
    With rule
    … at the hygh feastes. An other abbeye was buylden afore that at floriake in fraunceFrance, and not farre from orlyaunce, in the yeare of our lorde .DC.li. These …

    John Bale · The Acts of English Votaries · p. 48 · Open in the reader

Against a Rank Papist A02621

  • Printed
    … iii. de gestis francorum sayth, that one Daniel a prest, was constitute kynge of fraunceFrance, and marryed by dyspensacion, lyke as one Constans a monke of Wynchestre ded here …
    With rule
    … iii. de gestis francorum sayth, that one Daniel a prest, was constitute kynge of fraunceFrance, and marryed by dyspensacion, lyke as one Constans a monke of Wynchestre ded here …

    John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · p. cxxv · Open in the reader

Exhortation of an English Christian unto his Beloved Country A02788

  • Printed
    … beneshed-betwyne empire and empire / kyngedome and kyngedome / as betwyne Constantinople and Almayne / Englande & fraunceFrance / Italye and Spayne for the Bisshoppes of Rome / and how manye cruell warres at …
    With rule
    … beneshed-betwyne empire and empire / kyngedome and kyngedome / as betwyne Constantinople and Almayne / Englande & fraunceFrance / Italye and Spayne for the Bisshoppes of Rome / and how manye cruell warres at …

    John Bale · Exhortation of an English Christian unto his Beloved Country · p. 10 · Open in the reader

The Image of Both Churches in Revelation A02872

  • Printed
    … suffer the Byble to be abroade in the mother tongue in BRABAND, HOLLANDE, FLAUNDERS, FRAUNCEFRANCE, SPAYNE, ITALYE, and other places, yet are they styll as they were Angelles of …
    With rule
    … suffer the Byble to be abroade in the mother tongue in BRABAND, HOLLANDE, FLAUNDERS, FRAUNCEFRANCE, SPAYNE, ITALYE, and other places, yet are they styll as they were Angelles of …

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader

A View of the Romish Hydra A03851

  • Printed
    … Maſſacres and murders of manie Honorable, & worthie men in manie places do teſtifie: In fraunceFrance the murder of Prince of Conde, after he was taken priſoner, contrarie to the …
    With rule
    … Maſſacres and murders of manie Honorable, & worthie men in manie places do teſtifie: In fraunceFrance the murder of Prince of Conde, after he was taken priſoner, contrarie to the …

    Laurence Humphrey · A View of the Romish Hydra · Open in the reader

England to be Swallowed by Another French Marriage A13109

  • Printed
    … sinnes and plagues of that race and their auncesters. And because the match of fraunceFrance with thitalian Athalia & hir furies in that lande, especiallye those at the mariage of …
    With rule
    … sinnes and plagues of that race and their auncesters. And because the match of fraunceFrance with thitalian Athalia & hir furies in that lande, especiallye those at the mariage of …

    John Stubbes · England to be Swallowed by Another French Marriage · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … to Rome, and novv very kindly they take in both armes the church of fraunceFrance, and giue it a priuy deadly nipp, vnder colour of offering it their teates …
    With rule
    … to Rome, and novv very kindly they take in both armes the church of fraunceFrance, and giue it a priuy deadly nipp, vnder colour of offering it their teates …

    John Stubbes · England to be Swallowed by Another French Marriage · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … come in a more daunger with thys Prince, because if he be king of fraunceFrance, he shalbe neerer and readier by colorable polices to vvythdravv by little and little …
    With rule
    … come in a more daunger with thys Prince, because if he be king of fraunceFrance, he shalbe neerer and readier by colorable polices to vvythdravv by little and little …

    John Stubbes · England to be Swallowed by Another French Marriage · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … in Franckford, saluting hym by the vnkingly name of the king of butchers in fraunceFrance. vvhich though it vvere by the mouth of one principall man among them: yet …
    With rule
    … in Franckford, saluting hym by the vnkingly name of the king of butchers in fraunceFrance. vvhich though it vvere by the mouth of one principall man among them: yet …

    John Stubbes · England to be Swallowed by Another French Marriage · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Italian to be high Chanler there, & make hir halfe Italians to be marshals of fraunceFrance: you may be sure, a french husband will easely aduaunce his Italianate french mē …
    With rule
    … Italian to be high Chanler there, & make hir halfe Italians to be marshals of fraunceFrance: you may be sure, a french husband will easely aduaunce his Italianate french mē …

    John Stubbes · England to be Swallowed by Another French Marriage · Open in the reader

The Practice of Prelates A14151

  • Printed
    THē cam pope Zacharias ye first, in whose time hulderichus was kynge of fraunceFrance / a mā y• gouerned his royalme (as it ofte chaū ceth) by a debitie …
    With rule
    THē cam pope Zacharias ye first, in whose time hulderichus was kynge of fraunceFrance / a mā y• gouerned his royalme (as it ofte chaū ceth) by a debitie …

    William Tyndale · The Practice of Prelates · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Yf he be not yet strong ynough / then he sendeh vnto the bysshops of fraunceFrance, warning them that if hys seate decaye / theyrs can not longe prosper, and therfore …
    With rule
    … Yf he be not yet strong ynough / then he sendeh vnto the bysshops of fraunceFrance, warning them that if hys seate decaye / theyrs can not longe prosper, and therfore …

    William Tyndale · The Practice of Prelates · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … desyreth in Italye, then muste we make peace wyth the Frenchmen agayne immediatlye / that fraunceFrance be not all together trodē vnder the fete: but that it rema… alwaye in …
    With rule
    … desyreth in Italye, then muste we make peace wyth the Frenchmen agayne immediatlye / that fraunceFrance be not all together trodē vnder the fete: but that it rema… alwaye in …

    William Tyndale · The Practice of Prelates · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … of Rome, a cardinall also: after which meating / Inglyshmen had euer the worse in fraunceFrance, and theyr chefest fryende the duke of Burgayne forsoke them. For whē cardinalles & bysshops …
    With rule
    … of Rome, a cardinall also: after which meating / Inglyshmen had euer the worse in fraunceFrance, and theyr chefest fryende the duke of Burgayne forsoke them. For whē cardinalles & bysshops …

    William Tyndale · The Practice of Prelates · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … gette a male of her. then we shall lyghtly make our kyngepro, tectoure of fraunceFrance / and so shall Inglande and FraunceFrance be coupled together, and as for the quene …
    With rule
    … gette a male of her. then we shall lyghtly make our kyngepro, tectoure of fraunceFrance / and so shall Inglande and FraunceFrance be coupled together, and as for the quene …

    William Tyndale · The Practice of Prelates · Open in the reader

Of Relics A17729

  • Printed
    … do take him for one of the Apoſtles diſciples, and the firſt Euangeliſte of fraunceFrance. Becauſe of this his dignity they haue of his reliques in diuerſſe places.
    With rule
    … do take him for one of the Apoſtles diſciples, and the firſt Euangeliſte of fraunceFrance. Becauſe of this his dignity they haue of his reliques in diuerſſe places.

    John Calvin · Of Relics · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … ſay, the body remaineth hole but onli in two places: at ſainct Denis in fraunceFrance and at Regeſbourge in douchelād.
    With rule
    … ſay, the body remaineth hole but onli in two places: at ſainct Denis in fraunceFrance and at Regeſbourge in douchelād.

    John Calvin · Of Relics · Open in the reader

Vindication of Ecclesiastical Volume 3 A70866

  • Printed
    … paſſage ſolemnement e honurement a fere, nous par noſtre propre eſmovement, e de noſtre fraunceFrance volente, avouns grante a noſtre cher frere le Noble Rey de Almayne, noſtre honurable …
    With rule
    … paſſage ſolemnement e honurement a fere, nous par noſtre propre eſmovement, e de noſtre fraunceFrance volente, avouns grante a noſtre cher frere le Noble Rey de Almayne, noſtre honurable …

    William Prynne · Vindication of Ecclesiastical Volume 3 · p. 1056 · Open in the reader

Answer to Thomas More B16147

  • Printed
    … Now sir if you gather a generall counsell for ye matter / the churches of fraunceFrance and Italye will not beleue the churches of spayne & douchlonde because they so saye …
    With rule
    … Now sir if you gather a generall counsell for ye matter / the churches of fraunceFrance and Italye will not beleue the churches of spayne & douchlonde because they so saye …

    William Tyndale · Answer to Thomas More · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … to his awne handes which thynge he brought to passe with the swerd of fraunceFrance and clame so hye yt euersens he hath put his awne auctorite in stede …
    With rule
    … to his awne handes which thynge he brought to passe with the swerd of fraunceFrance and clame so hye yt euersens he hath put his awne auctorite in stede …

    William Tyndale · Answer to Thomas More · p. Cxiiii · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … he shulde haue had leyser too herken vn to the trouth / sent in to fraunceFrance / too occupie hys mynde in warre / and led him at their wil. And I …
    With rule
    … he shulde haue had leyser too herken vn to the trouth / sent in to fraunceFrance / too occupie hys mynde in warre / and led him at their wil. And I …

    William Tyndale · Answer to Thomas More · Open in the reader