Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #1115 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vniversitiesuniversities

u and v used by position, not sound: haue → have, vnto → unto.

Puritas changed it: 343 times in 160 works
Consistency: 99.1% (343 of 346)
Reach if approved: ~364 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: universities
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 346 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (343 changes in 160 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 343)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… England the opinions and sentences of the most learned men that lived in the VniversitiesUniversities, and Courts of Princes. And in the mean season others sent from the King …
With rule
… England the opinions and sentences of the most learned men that lived in the VniversitiesUniversities, and Courts of Princes. And in the mean season others sent from the King …
Samuel Clarke · The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History · p. 538 · Open in the reader
Printed
… heere-by a notable injurie, what wrong is like-wise done to Learning and VniversitiesUniversities, anie one may easilie perceive.
With rule
… heere-by a notable injurie, what wrong is like-wise done to Learning and VniversitiesUniversities, anie one may easilie perceive.
William Guild · The Humble Address Both of Church and Poor to Britains Monarch · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
Be it knowne vnto all states, Churches, and VniversitiesUniversities vnder heauen; and vnto all men, eyther present or to come, of what estate …
With rule
Be it knowne vnto all states, Churches, and VniversitiesUniversities vnder heauen; and vnto all men, eyther present or to come, of what estate …
Martin Marprelate · Protestation · p. 12 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a Reply: but my desire is to conceale his knowne weaknesse, (if not the VniversitiesUniversities and your owne Oversight) by a timely discovery of his authorized grosse mistakes; which …
With rule
… a Reply: but my desire is to conceale his knowne weaknesse, (if not the VniversitiesUniversities and your owne Oversight) by a timely discovery of his authorized grosse mistakes; which …
William Prynne · Lame Giles Halting · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the vniverſitiesuniversities of the Reformed Churches, either by writing or ſilence, & the ſaid Chriſtian vniverſitiesuniversities have not diſalowed that their confeſſion though long ſince published, their ſilence is therfor …
With rule
… the vniverſitiesuniversities of the Reformed Churches, either by writing or ſilence, & the ſaid Chriſtian vniverſitiesuniversities have not diſalowed that their confeſſion though long ſince published, their ſilence is therfor …
John Smyth · Parallels Censures · p. 127 · Open in the reader
Printed
A PETITION THO THE LORDES CHANcelours of both vniverſitiesuniversities, & to all the noble LL. of Albion & Ierne, to help reformation of errours bred …
With rule
A PETITION THO THE LORDES CHANcelours of both vniverſitiesuniversities, & to all the noble LL. of Albion & Ierne, to help reformation of errours bred …
Hugh Broughton · A Petition to the Lords Chancellors · Open in the reader
Printed
… will the ſtate Eccleſiaſticall runne to ruine. And they are much infringed in our VniverſitiesUniversities, which I am forced to complaine of, with feare, leſt that fall out which …
With rule
… will the ſtate Eccleſiaſticall runne to ruine. And they are much infringed in our VniverſitiesUniversities, which I am forced to complaine of, with feare, leſt that fall out which …
Calybute Downing · A Discourse of the Ecclesiastical State of this Kingdom · p. 91 · Open in the reader
Printed
… bred up to Learning, and Publick work, especially to the Sacred Ministry in the VniversitiesUniversities and Schools.
With rule
… bred up to Learning, and Publick work, especially to the Sacred Ministry in the VniversitiesUniversities and Schools.
Richard Baxter · Compassionate Counsel to All Young Men · p. 108 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

3 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.

Oxfords Plea Refuted A56225

Printed
… of Canterbury; That (in the yeer 1278.) he visited all his Province, and BOTH THE VNIVERSITIESUNIVERSITIES; in which he disputed excellently, and shewed himself in divers kinds of exercise. And …
With rule
… of Canterbury; That (in the yeer 1278.) he visited all his Province, and BOTH THE VNIVERSITIESUNIVERSITIES; in which he disputed excellently, and shewed himself in divers kinds of exercise. And …
William Prynne · Oxfords Plea Refuted · p. 8 · Open in the reader

Truth Maintained A70084

Printed
TO the Two moſt Famous VNIVERSITIESUNIVERSITIES OF ENGLAND
With rule
TO the Two moſt Famous VNIVERSITIESUNIVERSITIES OF ENGLAND
Thomas Fuller · Truth Maintained · Open in the reader

Truth Maintained 2 A85036

Printed
TO the Two moſt Famous VNIVERSITIESUNIVERSITIES OF ENGLAND
With rule
TO the Two moſt Famous VNIVERSITIESUNIVERSITIES OF ENGLAND
Thomas Fuller · Truth Maintained 2 · Open in the reader