Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10718 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

spayneSpain

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

Puritas changed it: 257 times in 87 works
Consistency: 97.3% (257 of 264)
Reach if approved: ~277 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: spain
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 264 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (257 changes in 87 works, 97.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 257)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… in which they beſtowe a greate time, as they doe in Scotlande and in SpayneSpain.
With rule
… in which they beſtowe a greate time, as they doe in Scotlande and in SpayneSpain.
Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · p. 63 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Theſe countries in ſpeedy proceſſe were ouerrun, Phanicia, Palaeſtina, Ieruſalem, all Syria, Perſia, Armenia, SpayneSpain, Sicily, Crete, much of Italy, Calabria, and all Longobardia: euen to Rome once great …
With rule
… Theſe countries in ſpeedy proceſſe were ouerrun, Phanicia, Palaeſtina, Ieruſalem, all Syria, Perſia, Armenia, SpayneSpain, Sicily, Crete, much of Italy, Calabria, and all Longobardia: euen to Rome once great …
Hugh Broughton · A Consent of Scripture · Open in the reader
Printed
… christians. Let Queen Maries time, the continuall murthers and … that haue … in Fraunce, Flaunders, SpayneSpain, Scotland, Ireland, at home amongst our …, & abroad, wheresoeuer … hath gotten in a foote, beate …
With rule
… christians. Let Queen Maries time, the continuall murthers and … that haue … in Fraunce, Flaunders, SpayneSpain, Scotland, Ireland, at home amongst our …, & abroad, wheresoeuer … hath gotten in a foote, beate …
John Field · A Caveat for Parsons Howlet · Open in the reader
Printed
That SpayneSpain, (France ſubdued once) may cut all their throtes.
With rule
That SpayneSpain, (France ſubdued once) may cut all their throtes.
Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · Open in the reader
Printed
… not in these dayes that you blodye bishopp…s of Englande / Italie / Sicell / Fraunce / SpayneSpain / Portingale / Scotlande / & Irelande be the grounde and originall foundacyon of all controuersyes / scysmes / variaunces …
With rule
… not in these dayes that you blodye bishopp…s of Englande / Italie / Sicell / Fraunce / SpayneSpain / Portingale / Scotlande / & Irelande be the grounde and originall foundacyon of all controuersyes / scysmes / variaunces …
John Bale · Exhortation of an English Christian unto his Beloved Country · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſtraunge ſtryfe. Otherwiſe read we of Cato, who ſeeld dronk wine. And being in SpayneSpain, vſed no other then his mariners. Of Noble men therfore requyre I moderate vſe …
With rule
… ſtraunge ſtryfe. Otherwiſe read we of Cato, who ſeeld dronk wine. And being in SpayneSpain, vſed no other then his mariners. Of Noble men therfore requyre I moderate vſe …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader
Printed
… permitted diuerſa eccleſiarum conſuetudo. The Gregorian order hath ben eſtabliſhed a long time in SpayneSpain, yet neuer was there an vniformitie ſo preciſely exacted, but that to this hower …
With rule
… permitted diuerſa eccleſiarum conſuetudo. The Gregorian order hath ben eſtabliſhed a long time in SpayneSpain, yet neuer was there an vniformitie ſo preciſely exacted, but that to this hower …
Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 96 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the inlarging (forsooth) of Saint Peters Patrimonye? What warres hath hee raysed heeretofore in SpayneSpain? What warres hath hee, and at thys present doeth hee manage, and maynteyne in …
With rule
… the inlarging (forsooth) of Saint Peters Patrimonye? What warres hath hee raysed heeretofore in SpayneSpain? What warres hath hee, and at thys present doeth hee manage, and maynteyne in …
Philip Stubbes · A Motive to Good Works · p. 105 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

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

The Image of Both Churches in Revelation A02872

Printed
… the Byble to be abroade in the mother tongue in BRABAND, HOLLANDE, FLAUNDERS, FRAUNCE, SPAYNESPAIN, ITALYE, and other places, yet are they styll as they were Angelles of darkenesse …
With rule
… the Byble to be abroade in the mother tongue in BRABAND, HOLLANDE, FLAUNDERS, FRAUNCE, SPAYNESPAIN, ITALYE, and other places, yet are they styll as they were Angelles of darkenesse …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader

The Practice of Prelates A14151

Printed
… their nede / cā wryte vnto y^e bysshops of Ireland, scotland, denmarke, douchland / fraunce and spayneSpain, promysīg them as good a turne an other tyme / puttyng them in remembraunce that …
With rule
… their nede / cā wryte vnto y^e bysshops of Ireland, scotland, denmarke, douchland / fraunce and spayneSpain, promysīg them as good a turne an other tyme / puttyng them in remembraunce that …
William Tyndale · The Practice of Prelates · Open in the reader
Printed
… bongay / and maried him vnto a wyddowe that was a knyghts wyfe / lest yf spayneSpain and Ingland had bene wyned together / kynge Edward shuld haue recouured fraunce agayn. But …
With rule
… bongay / and maried him vnto a wyddowe that was a knyghts wyfe / lest yf spayneSpain and Ingland had bene wyned together / kynge Edward shuld haue recouured fraunce agayn. But …
William Tyndale · The Practice of Prelates · Open in the reader
Printed
… y^e frenchmen lower. For our meyney were set in the forefronte and borders of spayneSpain towarde Gaskayne: partly to kepe those parties, and partly to feare y^• Gascaynes, & to …
With rule
… y^e frenchmen lower. For our meyney were set in the forefronte and borders of spayneSpain towarde Gaskayne: partly to kepe those parties, and partly to feare y^• Gascaynes, & to …
William Tyndale · The Practice of Prelates · Open in the reader

Answer to Thomas More B16147

Printed
… y^e matter / the churches of fraunce and Italye will not beleue the churches of spayneSpain & douchlonde because they so saye: but will aske how they proue it. Neyther will …
With rule
… y^e matter / the churches of fraunce and Italye will not beleue the churches of spayneSpain & douchlonde because they so saye: but will aske how they proue it. Neyther will …
William Tyndale · Answer to Thomas More · Open in the reader