Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11438 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

cattellcattle

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

Puritas changed it: 2,885 times in 839 works
Consistency: 99.9% (2,885 of 2,886)
Reach if approved: ~3,034 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: cattle
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,888 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,885 changes in 839 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,885)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… men in the East: Yet when the Shabeans came violently and tooke away his cattellcattle; when the fier of God falling from heauen, burnt vp his sheepe and his …
With rule
… men in the East: Yet when the Shabeans came violently and tooke away his cattellcattle; when the fier of God falling from heauen, burnt vp his sheepe and his …
Richard Greenham · Two Treatises Comforting an Afflicted Conscience · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… bee you would thinke it a loſſe to part with ſo much goods and cattellcattle ſo ſoone, to be worth a thouſand pound in the morning, and to haue …
With rule
… bee you would thinke it a loſſe to part with ſo much goods and cattellcattle ſo ſoone, to be worth a thouſand pound in the morning, and to haue …
Robert Harris · Absoloms Funeral · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… prefered to all other exercise and lauboure, by the antiquitie. The feading of the CattellCattle wes no les honest then profitable, yea, and this whole lyfe, as it is …
With rule
… prefered to all other exercise and lauboure, by the antiquitie. The feading of the CattellCattle wes no les honest then profitable, yea, and this whole lyfe, as it is …
George Hay · The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass · Open in the reader
Printed
… persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left; and also much cattellcattle, verse 11.
With rule
… persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left; and also much cattellcattle, verse 11.
Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · p. 330 · Open in the reader
Printed
… onely their sauour, but their nutriment. He causeth the grasse to growe for the cattellcattle, and herbe for the seruice of man: that he may bring food out of …
With rule
… onely their sauour, but their nutriment. He causeth the grasse to growe for the cattellcattle, and herbe for the seruice of man: that he may bring food out of …
Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 64 · Open in the reader
Printed
… feared the word of God tooke warning, and caused both their seruants and their cattellcattle to take and keepe house for the preuenting of that perill.
With rule
… feared the word of God tooke warning, and caused both their seruants and their cattellcattle to take and keepe house for the preuenting of that perill.
Thomas Gataker · Two Sermons for the Direction for Christian Carriage · p. 121 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fellowship. For which of you, saith our Master, having a servant plowing or feeding cattellcattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field …
With rule
… fellowship. For which of you, saith our Master, having a servant plowing or feeding cattellcattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field …
George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · p. 85 · Open in the reader
Printed
… haue a purchaſe to pay for. They haue layd all out vpon houſe, land, cattellcattle, they will hereafter do ſomething. When they die, they will make a bequeſt to …
With rule
… haue a purchaſe to pay for. They haue layd all out vpon houſe, land, cattellcattle, they will hereafter do ſomething. When they die, they will make a bequeſt to …
Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · p. 295 · 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.

The Resurrection Revealed A44277

Printed
… OF THY HANDS, IN THE FRVIT OF THY BODY, in the fruit of thy CATTELLCATTLE, in the fruit of thy LAND: (and marke) FOR THY GOOD. And the Lord …
With rule
… OF THY HANDS, IN THE FRVIT OF THY BODY, in the fruit of thy CATTELLCATTLE, in the fruit of thy LAND: (and marke) FOR THY GOOD. And the Lord …
Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 151 · Open in the reader