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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1264 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

priestespriests

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

Puritas changed it
5,602 times in 444 works
Consistency
99.8% (5,602 of 5,610)
Reach if approved
~5,898 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: priests
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
5,613 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (5,602 changes in 444 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 5,602)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … lesse sin to faine a new God, then to deny the true God. The PriestesPriests call the people Swine, and therefore must not haue those precious pearles. And so …
    With rule
    … lesse sin to faine a new God, then to deny the true God. The PriestesPriests call the people Swine, and therefore must not haue those precious pearles. And so …

    Thomas Adams · Englands Sickness Compared to Israels · p. 33 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … or abrogate, and so the sence afterward falleth out very plaine for the popish PriestesPriests thus: We disanul that Priests should go with out long héere, or vnshauen beards …
    With rule
    … or abrogate, and so the sence afterward falleth out very plaine for the popish PriestesPriests thus: We disanul that Priests should go with out long héere, or vnshauen beards …

    William Fulke · Sermon Preached 12 November 1570 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … of greate force and dealte cruelly. For he destroyed Nob the Citie of the PriestesPriests with the edge of the sworde, hee persecuted Dauid, and had many to set …
    With rule
    … of greate force and dealte cruelly. For he destroyed Nob the Citie of the PriestesPriests with the edge of the sworde, hee persecuted Dauid, and had many to set …

    George Gifford · Discourse of the Subtle Practices of Devils · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … obeye him, commandinge them to murther Ahimelech and the reſt of the Leuites ād PrieſtesPriests: ſo that not to withſtand ſuch rages of Princes in tyme according as the …
    With rule
    … obeye him, commandinge them to murther Ahimelech and the reſt of the Leuites ād PrieſtesPriests: ſo that not to withſtand ſuch rages of Princes in tyme according as the …

    Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 140 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    THat almoſt all Arch-hereticks were eyther Biſhops or PriestesPriests, ſayeth Belarmine, Lib. 1. de Pont. Cap. 8. §. 4.
    With rule
    THat almoſt all Arch-hereticks were eyther Biſhops or PriestesPriests, ſayeth Belarmine, Lib. 1. de Pont. Cap. 8. §. 4.

    William Guild · A Compend of the Controversies of Religion · p. 42 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Serpent assayed to distroy Christes true church. The Apostles he vexed with ye Pharisies & priestespriests, for the first age. With false bretherne and Tyrauntes troubled he theyr successours for …
    With rule
    … Serpent assayed to distroy Christes true church. The Apostles he vexed with ye Pharisies & priestespriests, for the first age. With false bretherne and Tyrauntes troubled he theyr successours for …

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … that he did not know at al that he was the Prince of the PrieſtesPriests, otherwiſe he would haue honoured him. Shal I trouble you with the recitall of …
    With rule
    … that he did not know at al that he was the Prince of the PrieſtesPriests, otherwiſe he would haue honoured him. Shal I trouble you with the recitall of …

    Laurence Humphrey · A View of the Romish Hydra · p. 67 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    Nowe wee come to the actions to bee performed by the PrieſtesPriests. Which likewiſe are of two ſortes. The firſte ſorte are thoſe, which are performed …
    With rule
    Nowe wee come to the actions to bee performed by the PrieſtesPriests. Which likewiſe are of two ſortes. The firſte ſorte are thoſe, which are performed …

    John Forbes · The Doctrine of Justification · p. 115 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

8 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.

Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted A01042

  • Printed
    … of the CHVRCH, wee made no question, to receiue, and vse, the MINISTRIE, of PRIESTESPRIESTS, ordayned by the CHVRCH, which hee calleth ROMANE?
    With rule
    … of the CHVRCH, wee made no question, to receiue, and vse, the MINISTRIE, of PRIESTESPRIESTS, ordayned by the CHVRCH, which hee calleth ROMANE?

    Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 155 · Open in the reader

Answer to Mr Jacobs Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England A04537

  • Printed
    AN ANSWER TO MAISTER H. IACOB HIS TREATISE Concerning the PRIESTESPRIESTS of the Church of England, Made by the PRAELATES, Accepted and ioyned vnto by …
    With rule
    AN ANSWER TO MAISTER H. IACOB HIS TREATISE Concerning the PRIESTESPRIESTS of the Church of England, Made by the PRAELATES, Accepted and ioyned vnto by …

    Francis Johnson · Answer to Mr Jacobs Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · Open in the reader

The Papists Reasons of State and Religion A09881

  • Printed
    5 Briefly in few wordes: Popiſh PRIESTESPRIESTS, are no more the Miniſters of the Goſpell of Ieſus Chriſt: then were the …
    With rule
    5 Briefly in few wordes: Popiſh PRIESTESPRIESTS, are no more the Miniſters of the Goſpell of Ieſus Chriſt: then were the …

    Gabriel Powel · The Papists Reasons of State and Religion · p. 71 · Open in the reader

The Passion Resurrection and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ A11012

  • Printed
    … the Croſſe? Then comes there the Princes of the IEWES, the SCRIBES, the High PRIESTESPRIESTS, and PHARISES, and they taunt Him alſo, ſaying, Thou who ſauedst others, ſaue thy …
    With rule
    … the Croſſe? Then comes there the Princes of the IEWES, the SCRIBES, the High PRIESTESPRIESTS, and PHARISES, and they taunt Him alſo, ſaying, Thou who ſauedst others, ſaue thy …

    Robert Rollock · The Passion Resurrection and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ · p. 144 · Open in the reader

A Revelation of the Apocalypse A16853

  • Printed
    … manner of the Temple, where the LEVITES prayſed GOD with Muſicall Inſtruments, and the PRIESTESPRIESTS had their Pottes and Bowles ſet before the Altar, full of odours, as wee …
    With rule
    … manner of the Temple, where the LEVITES prayſed GOD with Muſicall Inſtruments, and the PRIESTESPRIESTS had their Pottes and Bowles ſet before the Altar, full of odours, as wee …

    Thomas Brightman · A Revelation of the Apocalypse · p. 165 · Open in the reader

The Confutation of the 13 Articles A19657

  • Printed
    PRieſtesPriests beynge once dedicate to God by the ordre of prieſtehod, and al ſuche men …
    With rule
    PRieſtesPriests beynge once dedicate to God by the ordre of prieſtehod, and al ſuche men …

    Robert Crowley · The Confutation of the 13 Articles · Open in the reader

Pseudo-Martyr A20647

  • Printed
    A PREFACE TO The PRIESTESPRIESTS, and IESVITS, and to their Disciples in this KINGDOME.
    With rule
    A PREFACE TO The PRIESTESPRIESTS, and IESVITS, and to their Disciples in this KINGDOME.

    John Donne · Pseudo-Martyr · Open in the reader

Whole Works A68831

  • Printed
    PRieſtesPriests doe mumble, and rore out their Dyriges, and Maſſes in the Church and churchyardes …
    With rule
    PRieſtesPriests doe mumble, and rore out their Dyriges, and Maſſes in the Church and churchyardes …

    William Tyndale · Whole Works · p. 216 · Open in the reader