Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10710 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

frauncesFrancis

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

Puritas changed it: 101 times in 33 works
Consistency: 98.0% (101 of 103)
Reach if approved: ~108 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: france's
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 103 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (101 changes in 33 works, 98.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 101)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… hym Chryſtes goſpell / wherfore yf they ſay, it is here or there, in ſaint FrauncesFrancis cote or Domynykes and ſuche lyke, and that yf thou thou wylt put on …
With rule
… hym Chryſtes goſpell / wherfore yf they ſay, it is here or there, in ſaint FrauncesFrancis cote or Domynykes and ſuche lyke, and that yf thou thou wylt put on …
William Tyndale · Exposition Upon Matthew 27(1) · p. xxvii · Open in the reader
Printed
… Iesu Christ. For they teachen Lordes, and namelie Ladies, that if they dien in FrauncesFrancis habit they shall never come in Hel, for vertue thereof, and certes this is …
With rule
… Iesu Christ. For they teachen Lordes, and namelie Ladies, that if they dien in FrauncesFrancis habit they shall never come in Hel, for vertue thereof, and certes this is …
John Wycliffe · Against the Begging Friars · p. 38 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wretched memorie lately executed and cut of in Norwich, what shall I say of FrauncesFrancis Ket another Arian which succéeded them, in opinions more monstrous then his predecessours, for …
With rule
… wretched memorie lately executed and cut of in Norwich, what shall I say of FrauncesFrancis Ket another Arian which succéeded them, in opinions more monstrous then his predecessours, for …
William Burton · Davids Evidence · p. 135 · Open in the reader
Printed
Robert FrauncesFrancis
With rule
Robert FrauncesFrancis
John Tutchin · A New Martyrology · p. 56 · Open in the reader
Printed
… an Armye againſt the Turkes thirtie thouſand fighting men of the order of S. FrauncesFrancis, which ſhould be well able to ſerue in the warres, and yet be no …
With rule
… an Armye againſt the Turkes thirtie thouſand fighting men of the order of S. FrauncesFrancis, which ſhould be well able to ſerue in the warres, and yet be no …
Henrich Bullinger · A Hundred Sermons on Revelation · p. 255 · Open in the reader
Printed
And thus lastly, to make vp this troupe, foolish Saint FrauncesFrancis, (I may well so tearme him, if all be true that Papists themselues report …
With rule
And thus lastly, to make vp this troupe, foolish Saint FrauncesFrancis, (I may well so tearme him, if all be true that Papists themselues report …
Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 296 · Open in the reader
Printed
… without the intermixtion of anye mans authoritie, in remittinge synne eyther of Peter, Paule, FrauncesFrancis, Dominike, Benet, or anye other, or yet of thē selfs, agayn y^• it be …
With rule
… without the intermixtion of anye mans authoritie, in remittinge synne eyther of Peter, Paule, FrauncesFrancis, Dominike, Benet, or anye other, or yet of thē selfs, agayn y^• it be …
Thomas Becon · The Castle of Comfort · Open in the reader
Printed
… the time that the holy fathers, of full perfection, and Gods deare friendes Saint FrauncesFrancis, Saint Dominicke, Saint Barnarde, and Saint Alane, (who had sucked our blessed Ladies brests …
With rule
… the time that the holy fathers, of full perfection, and Gods deare friendes Saint FrauncesFrancis, Saint Dominicke, Saint Barnarde, and Saint Alane, (who had sucked our blessed Ladies brests …
Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · p. 19 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Exposition Upon Matthew 27(1) A14133

Printed
… phariſeys were relygyouſe men whiche hade profeſſed, not as nowe, one Dominycke the other frauncesFrancis, another Barnardes rules. But euen to hold the very lawe of God / with prayer …
With rule
… phariſeys were relygyouſe men whiche hade profeſſed, not as nowe, one Dominycke the other frauncesFrancis, another Barnardes rules. But euen to hold the very lawe of God / with prayer …
William Tyndale · Exposition Upon Matthew 27(1) · p. xxxiii · Open in the reader