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mentzMainz

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

Puritas changed it
580 times in 206 works
Consistency
99.6% (580 of 582)
Reach if approved
~623 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: mainz
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
593 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (580 changes in 206 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 580)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … but for denying that our L. went to Hel. And the very Ieſuites of MentzMainz in a Grek letter to my ſelf ſay: the Church never beleeued that our …
    With rule
    … but for denying that our L. went to Hel. And the very Ieſuites of MentzMainz in a Grek letter to my ſelf ſay: the Church never beleeued that our …

    Hugh Broughton · Two Epistles in the Year 1599 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … among Christians. For Pope Gregorie the second, in an Epistle to Boniface Archbishop of MentzMainz, commandeth to suppresse those, and to force them to do penance, which had eaten …
    With rule
    … among Christians. For Pope Gregorie the second, in an Epistle to Boniface Archbishop of MentzMainz, commandeth to suppresse those, and to force them to do penance, which had eaten …

    Peter du Moulin Jr · The Buckler of the Faith · p. 255 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … inheriting his firſt chaire I doubt, if Rome were extinct, and the Biſhop of MentzMainz, or Cullen, or Vienna, or Rhemes, or Paris or any other ſhould pretend to …
    With rule
    … inheriting his firſt chaire I doubt, if Rome were extinct, and the Biſhop of MentzMainz, or Cullen, or Vienna, or Rhemes, or Paris or any other ſhould pretend to …

    Richard Baxter · The Safe Religion · p. 294 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    Rabanus Maurus, Bishop of MentzMainz teacheth vs, that the Lord would haue the Sacrament of his body and blood …
    With rule
    Rabanus Maurus, Bishop of MentzMainz teacheth vs, that the Lord would haue the Sacrament of his body and blood …

    Daniel Featley · The Grand Sacrilege of the Church of Rome · p. 96 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … But a subordination of Yorke to Canterburie, of Rhems to Lyons, of Coleyn to MentzMainz, would happely prove in the stomacks of deintie Prelats a matter of such crudity …
    With rule
    … But a subordination of Yorke to Canterburie, of Rhems to Lyons, of Coleyn to MentzMainz, would happely prove in the stomacks of deintie Prelats a matter of such crudity …

    Henry Jacob · To Prince James · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … George the famous, Saint Dunstane of Canterbury, Saint Austin the Monke, Saint Boniface of MentzMainz, Saint Swithine of Winchester, Saint Margaret of Antioch Saint Anne, Saint Giles, Saint Lambert …
    With rule
    … George the famous, Saint Dunstane of Canterbury, Saint Austin the Monke, Saint Boniface of MentzMainz, Saint Swithine of Winchester, Saint Margaret of Antioch Saint Anne, Saint Giles, Saint Lambert …

    William Prynne · Survey and Censure of Mr Cozens · p. 34 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … clearly by the Councell gathered in Fraunce, anno 742. in the which Bonifacius, bishop of MentzMainz was Moderator. In the first Canon of that Councell it was statuted and ordained …
    With rule
    … clearly by the Councell gathered in Fraunce, anno 742. in the which Bonifacius, bishop of MentzMainz was Moderator. In the first Canon of that Councell it was statuted and ordained …

    Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 154 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Pope, why should not he set Cardinalships to sale? for if Iacobus Archbishop of MentzMainz payd 27000. florences for his pall, what thinke you a Cardinals hat is to be …
    With rule
    … Pope, why should not he set Cardinalships to sale? for if Iacobus Archbishop of MentzMainz payd 27000. florences for his pall, what thinke you a Cardinals hat is to be …

    Andrew Willet · A General View of Papistry · p. 197 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

History of the First Ten Persecutions A13296

  • Printed
    … name of AVGVSTINE, Bisshop of HIPPO: but it is knowne that RABANVS, Archbishop of MENTZMAINZ, was the compiler of that foolishe TREATISE, De Antichristo, whereinto the fore-mentioned opinions …
    With rule
    … name of AVGVSTINE, Bisshop of HIPPO: but it is knowne that RABANVS, Archbishop of MENTZMAINZ, was the compiler of that foolishe TREATISE, De Antichristo, whereinto the fore-mentioned opinions …

    Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 59 · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

  • Printed
    … the fourths time, mentioned by Gratian, diſt. 20. c. de libellis, and printed Anno 1526 at MentZMainz, and re-printed at Paris, in octauo, Anno 1609. omits it. The other Collection of …
    With rule
    … the fourths time, mentioned by Gratian, diſt. 20. c. de libellis, and printed Anno 1526 at MentZMainz, and re-printed at Paris, in octauo, Anno 1609. omits it. The other Collection of …

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 765 · Open in the reader