Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11195 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

gouernoursgovernors

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it: 2,254 times in 485 works
Consistency: 99.9% (2,254 of 2,255)
Reach if approved: ~2,369 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: governors
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,255 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,254 changes in 485 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,254)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… him for his life, first strooke his name out of the Catalogue of the gouernoursgovernors of the Citty, and then articled against him. And when he pleaded the priuiledge …
With rule
… him for his life, first strooke his name out of the Catalogue of the gouernoursgovernors of the Citty, and then articled against him. And when he pleaded the priuiledge …
Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · Open in the reader
Printed
… with what authoritie GOD his father sent him, with the same he sent her gouernoursgovernors, the Apostles, and their successours. And againe, he that shoulde not heare and obey …
With rule
… with what authoritie GOD his father sent him, with the same he sent her gouernoursgovernors, the Apostles, and their successours. And againe, he that shoulde not heare and obey …
William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · Open in the reader
Printed
… time (he meaneth after the history of Esdras) there was no kinges, but chiefe gouernoursgovernors, after the restitutiō & repaire of the temple, till Aristobulus time: of all which time …
With rule
… time (he meaneth after the history of Esdras) there was no kinges, but chiefe gouernoursgovernors, after the restitutiō & repaire of the temple, till Aristobulus time: of all which time …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 211 · Open in the reader
Printed
Ohtirāny intollerable. You haue to long blynded our gouernoursgovernors & made them your butchars and tormentours.
With rule
Ohtirāny intollerable. You haue to long blynded our gouernoursgovernors & made them your butchars and tormentours.
Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · Open in the reader
Printed
… to the Miniſters thereof, whom thou haſt appointed to be the Shepheards, Teachers, and GouernoursGovernors of their ſouls in thy roome and place, till thy comming to iudgement at …
With rule
… to the Miniſters thereof, whom thou haſt appointed to be the Shepheards, Teachers, and GouernoursGovernors of their ſouls in thy roome and place, till thy comming to iudgement at …
Thomas Granger · The Blind Mans Sermon · Open in the reader
Printed
… ys yt that they were thā the Images of the Beast. Apoca. 13. & no godlye gouernoursgovernors, yea, verye Idolles … no kynges, that were vndre soche ghostly fathers. Henricus Huntyngtonensis Archidia …
With rule
… ys yt that they were thā the Images of the Beast. Apoca. 13. & no godlye gouernoursgovernors, yea, verye Idolles … no kynges, that were vndre soche ghostly fathers. Henricus Huntyngtonensis Archidia …
John Bale · The Acts of English Votaries · Open in the reader
Printed
… worship the Beast / which is the great Antichrist. And his Image / which are those gouernoursgovernors that taketh vpon them his blasphemouse titles / names / auctoryte / or defence. If anye manne …
With rule
… worship the Beast / which is the great Antichrist. And his Image / which are those gouernoursgovernors that taketh vpon them his blasphemouse titles / names / auctoryte / or defence. If anye manne …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
For their GouernoursGovernors they haue Kings, which they call Saggamores, some greater, and some lesser, according to …
With rule
For their GouernoursGovernors they haue Kings, which they call Saggamores, some greater, and some lesser, according to …
Francis Higginson · New Englands Plantation · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 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.

Discipline Which Christ Hath Prescribed for the Government of His Church A14184

Printed
¶ TO THE SVPPOSED GOuernoursGovernors of the Church of England, the Archbyshops, lord Byshops, Archdeacons and the rest of …
With rule
¶ TO THE SVPPOSED GOuernoursGovernors of the Church of England, the Archbyshops, lord Byshops, Archdeacons and the rest of …
John Udall · Discipline Which Christ Hath Prescribed for the Government of His Church · Open in the reader