Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1254 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

readeread

A final e dropped: selfe → self, beene → been, hee → he.

Puritas changed it: 19,157 times in 2,079 works
Consistency: 99.9% (19,157 of 19,162)
Reach if approved: ~20,136 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: read
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 19,164 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (19,157 changes in 2,079 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 19,157)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the Clergie was discussed, the two other suppressed sections in M. Cromptons booke were readeread, the former touching the unlawfulnesse of anie contract of matrimonie betweene parties of a …
With rule
… the Clergie was discussed, the two other suppressed sections in M. Cromptons booke were readeread, the former touching the unlawfulnesse of anie contract of matrimonie betweene parties of a …
Daniel Featley · Learned Decisions · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
… I can performe, it would make a greate volume, it would be tedious to readeread, and perhaps not ſo neceſſarie.
With rule
… I can performe, it would make a greate volume, it would be tedious to readeread, and perhaps not ſo neceſſarie.
Dudley Fenner · Treatise of Lawful and Unlawful Recreations · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
Yet when we readeread the deeds of men inhumed,
With rule
Yet when we readeread the deeds of men inhumed,
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 82 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the teſtimonie of Ieſus. He being deſirous of knowledge, (him ſelfe not able to readeread) ſet his ſonne to ſchoole, to learne to readeread: and vſed to haue him …
With rule
… the teſtimonie of Ieſus. He being deſirous of knowledge, (him ſelfe not able to readeread) ſet his ſonne to ſchoole, to learne to readeread: and vſed to haue him …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 141 · Open in the reader
Printed
… you which knoweth it, and as to any others, I wysh them first to readeread it, and then to iudge of it as they shal finde it. Thus I …
With rule
… you which knoweth it, and as to any others, I wysh them first to readeread it, and then to iudge of it as they shal finde it. Thus I …
William Fulke · A Comfortable Sermon of Faith in Temptations · Open in the reader
Printed
But who so wil readeread the workes of Ierome, may finde yet more places, in which he is bold …
With rule
But who so wil readeread the workes of Ierome, may finde yet more places, in which he is bold …
William Fulke · Sermon Preached 12 November 1570 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which have beene given to violent exercises in their youth, when they are old readeread the admonitions of their former folly in the aches of their bones; so they …
With rule
… which have beene given to violent exercises in their youth, when they are old readeread the admonitions of their former folly in the aches of their bones; so they …
Thomas Fuller · Josephs Party-Colored Coat · p. 79 · Open in the reader
Printed
… should be asked, how he proueth it warrantable to vse a printed booke to readeread on in the Church; hee shall not be able to make other answer then …
With rule
… should be asked, how he proueth it warrantable to vse a printed booke to readeread on in the Church; hee shall not be able to make other answer then …
Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 137 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin A02947

Printed
REadeRead fo. 3. pag. 2. lin. 21. of thers. fo. 4. in marg. conueyaunce. fo. 5. pag. 2. lin. 2. hart. fo …
With rule
REadeRead fo. 3. pag. 2. lin. 21. of thers. fo. 4. in marg. conueyaunce. fo. 5. pag. 2. lin. 2. hart. fo …
John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · Open in the reader

The View and Downfall of Pride A15000

Printed
REadeRead heere the true ſubſtance
With rule
REadeRead heere the true ſubſtance
William Whately · The View and Downfall of Pride · Open in the reader

A New Discovery of Personal Tithes A17271

Printed
1. REadeRead All, or readeread nothing.
With rule
1. REadeRead All, or readeread nothing.
Cornelius Burges · A New Discovery of Personal Tithes · Open in the reader

The True Treasury A63071

Printed
REadeRead it firſt, for it is Gods Epiſtle for our ſakes Written, 1 Cor. 9.10. for our …
With rule
REadeRead it firſt, for it is Gods Epiſtle for our ſakes Written, 1 Cor. 9.10. for our …
John Trapp · The True Treasury · p. 301 · Open in the reader