Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10928 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

iackeJack

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

Puritas changed it: 98 times in 62 works
Consistency: 98.0% (98 of 100)
Reach if approved: ~105 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: jack
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 100 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (98 changes in 62 works, 98.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 98)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… might haue reckoned vp many Iackes, as IackeJack Strawe, or Wat Tiler, Iack Miller, IackeJack Carter, againſt King Richard the ſecond, and alſo Iack Cade of Kent, who was …
With rule
… might haue reckoned vp many Iackes, as IackeJack Strawe, or Wat Tiler, Iack Miller, IackeJack Carter, againſt King Richard the ſecond, and alſo Iack Cade of Kent, who was …
Laurence Humphrey · A View of the Romish Hydra · p. 117 · Open in the reader
Printed
… crabtree cudgell. The lieader cannot chuse but haue as great delight therein / as a IackeJack an Apes hath in a whip: he hath so thumped the cause with crosse …
With rule
… crabtree cudgell. The lieader cannot chuse but haue as great delight therein / as a IackeJack an Apes hath in a whip: he hath so thumped the cause with crosse …
Martin Marprelate · Read John Bridges · Open in the reader
Printed
… Friers. So did Geffery Chaucer about the ſame time (namely in his Dialogue called IackeJack Vpland) very ſaltly taunt, and deride the vanity of your frierly ſuperſtition. In the …
With rule
… Friers. So did Geffery Chaucer about the ſame time (namely in his Dialogue called IackeJack Vpland) very ſaltly taunt, and deride the vanity of your frierly ſuperſtition. In the …
Thomas Sparke · Answer to John De Albines · p. 56 · Open in the reader
Printed
… him, then Ier…hoham had of his withered hand; hee is like the dumbe IackeJack in a Virginall, for he hath not so much as a voice in the …
With rule
… him, then Ier…hoham had of his withered hand; hee is like the dumbe IackeJack in a Virginall, for he hath not so much as a voice in the …
Richard Younge · The Drunkards Character · p. 74 · Open in the reader
Printed
Why IackeJack (quod this riche man)
With rule
Why IackeJack (quod this riche man)
Robert Crowley · Thirty-One Epigrams · Open in the reader
Printed
… of war, plague, peſtilence, and famine, and like viſitation is among them: then their IackeJack in the boxe goeth abroad in ſolemne proceſsions to be ſeene, which is the …
With rule
… of war, plague, peſtilence, and famine, and like viſitation is among them: then their IackeJack in the boxe goeth abroad in ſolemne proceſsions to be ſeene, which is the …
William Attersoll · The New Covenant · p. 386 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thē they ſpare not to ſay, that the Preacher hath learned his leſſon in IackeJack an apes court: doing as much as lyeth in them, to make other men …
With rule
… thē they ſpare not to ſay, that the Preacher hath learned his leſſon in IackeJack an apes court: doing as much as lyeth in them, to make other men …
Thomas Lever · Sermon Preached Fourth Sunday in Lent · Open in the reader
Printed
… was vnpoſſible, that any prieſt could make the body of Chriſt. 3. That he ſaid, IackeJack Baker of Briſtow had as much power to make the like body of Chriſt …
With rule
… was vnpoſſible, that any prieſt could make the body of Chriſt. 3. That he ſaid, IackeJack Baker of Briſtow had as much power to make the like body of Chriſt …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 299 · 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.

The Anatomy of Abuses Part 2 A13091

Printed
… of his regall throne of maiestie and glorie, making an Officiperda of him, a iackeJack out of office, & to pul him (as it were) E caelis, Out of the …
With rule
… of his regall throne of maiestie and glorie, making an Officiperda of him, a iackeJack out of office, & to pul him (as it were) E caelis, Out of the …
Philip Stubbes · The Anatomy of Abuses Part 2 · Open in the reader

Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 A67927

Printed
… seeke not his owne, but Christes glory, I had leauer haue the suffrage of iackeJack of the skullery which in his calling doth exercise both fayth and charitye: but …
With rule
… seeke not his owne, but Christes glory, I had leauer haue the suffrage of iackeJack of the skullery which in his calling doth exercise both fayth and charitye: but …
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1742 · Open in the reader