Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1290 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

customecustom

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

Puritas changed it: 16,540 times in 2,669 works
Consistency: 99.9% (16,540 of 16,546)
Reach if approved: ~17,387 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: custom
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 16,548 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (16,540 changes in 2,669 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 16,540)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… grace and reconciliation by Chriſt, this is a cauſe of deſpair. 4. So alſo inured cuſtomecustom of ſinning is another cauſe. When men are often quickned, and grow dead again …
With rule
… grace and reconciliation by Chriſt, this is a cauſe of deſpair. 4. So alſo inured cuſtomecustom of ſinning is another cauſe. When men are often quickned, and grow dead again …
William Fenner · The Souls Looking Glass 2 · p. 183 · Open in the reader
Printed
No customecustom would she break, or change her setled minde.
With rule
No customecustom would she break, or change her setled minde.
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 95 · Open in the reader
Printed
… them, should bee helde for a Law, and Canon of right Doctrine: for, if customecustom were of force anough to prooue right Doctrine, wee might also imitate them heere …
With rule
… them, should bee helde for a Law, and Canon of right Doctrine: for, if customecustom were of force anough to prooue right Doctrine, wee might also imitate them heere …
Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
… things being gathered as it were into a bundell, lay them downe for a customecustom, in the mindes of the English men.
With rule
… things being gathered as it were into a bundell, lay them downe for a customecustom, in the mindes of the English men.
William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · Open in the reader
Printed
… to celebrate for certaine notorious offenders, geueth vs to witte, that of right and customecustom it belonged in his prouince to others that passed hense in obedience and piety …
With rule
… to celebrate for certaine notorious offenders, geueth vs to witte, that of right and customecustom it belonged in his prouince to others that passed hense in obedience and piety …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 354 · Open in the reader
Printed
… you haue in the whole world, in heauen, or in earth: And nature and customecustom hath taught men this, to call their cheifest and best frends to their Weddings …
With rule
… you haue in the whole world, in heauen, or in earth: And nature and customecustom hath taught men this, to call their cheifest and best frends to their Weddings …
Thomas Gataker · Two Marriage Sermons · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… did heare them and propound queſtions vnto them, Luk. 2. And when hee preached, his cuſtomecustom was to goe into the Synagog vppon the Sabboth, and to reade and expound …
With rule
… did heare them and propound queſtions vnto them, Luk. 2. And when hee preached, his cuſtomecustom was to goe into the Synagog vppon the Sabboth, and to reade and expound …
George Gifford · Short Reply to the Donatists · p. 70 · Open in the reader
Printed
… beare; but they that continue in sinne and all impurity and putrifie in the customecustom thereof, are like him that was foure dayes dead and stanke in the graue …
With rule
… beare; but they that continue in sinne and all impurity and putrifie in the customecustom thereof, are like him that was foure dayes dead and stanke in the graue …
Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · p. 222 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

5 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.

The Drunkards Character A15845

Printed
CUstomeCustom of successe makes men confident in their sinnes, and causes them to mistake an …
With rule
CUstomeCustom of successe makes men confident in their sinnes, and causes them to mistake an …
Richard Younge · The Drunkards Character · p. 241 · Open in the reader

Sin Stigmatized A15847

Printed
CUſtomeCustom of ſucceſſe makes men confident in their ſinnes, and cauſes them to miſtake an …
With rule
CUſtomeCustom of ſucceſſe makes men confident in their ſinnes, and cauſes them to miſtake an …
Richard Younge · Sin Stigmatized · p. 241 · Open in the reader

A Tithing Table A34936

Printed
1 CUſtomeCustom by the Canon Lawes holdeth or faileth, diverſly reſpected: if it be De transferendis …
With rule
1 CUſtomeCustom by the Canon Lawes holdeth or faileth, diverſly reſpected: if it be De transferendis …
William Crashaw · A Tithing Table · p. 33 · Open in the reader

Apology for Indulging Just Christian Liberty A56184

Printed
… DENY the Sacrament TO ANY WHO SHALL DEVOUTLY AND HUMBLY DESIRE IT, ANY LAW, CUSTOMECUSTOM OR ORDINANCE TO THE CONTRARY NOTWITHSTANDING: Onely it directs the Minister, to deliver it …
With rule
… DENY the Sacrament TO ANY WHO SHALL DEVOUTLY AND HUMBLY DESIRE IT, ANY LAW, CUSTOMECUSTOM OR ORDINANCE TO THE CONTRARY NOTWITHSTANDING: Onely it directs the Minister, to deliver it …
William Prynne · Apology for Indulging Just Christian Liberty · p. 78 · Open in the reader

The Levelers Leveled A91210

Printed
… by the Kings command, that it ought not to be done of right OR CUSTOMECUSTOM, BUT ONELY OUT OF THE KINGS SPECIALL GRACE; which the Commons then acknowledged.
With rule
… by the Kings command, that it ought not to be done of right OR CUSTOMECUSTOM, BUT ONELY OUT OF THE KINGS SPECIALL GRACE; which the Commons then acknowledged.
William Prynne · The Levelers Leveled · p. 24 · Open in the reader