Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1499 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

beamesbeams

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

Puritas changed it: 3,045 times in 1,001 works
Consistency: 99.9% (3,045 of 3,046)
Reach if approved: ~3,200 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: beams
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 3,046 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,045 changes in 1,001 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,045)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ſaith David, Pſal. 1. The Lord knowes the way of the Righteous, that is, the beamesbeams of Gods Wiſdome in acknowledging their miſeries are ſo ſettled upon them, that they …
With rule
… ſaith David, Pſal. 1. The Lord knowes the way of the Righteous, that is, the beamesbeams of Gods Wiſdome in acknowledging their miſeries are ſo ſettled upon them, that they …
William Gilbert · The Art of Building Comfort · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſome company with him, were) was borne downe: ſo as both the floores, the beamesbeams, girders, joyces, boards and ſeelings, with all the people on them, fell downe together …
With rule
… ſome company with him, were) was borne downe: ſo as both the floores, the beamesbeams, girders, joyces, boards and ſeelings, with all the people on them, fell downe together …
William Gouge · Gods Three Arrows · p. 396 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and to ſay; Heale mee, O God, for my bones are troubled. If the beamesbeams of a houſe bee unſound and ſhaken, how is it poſſible the houſe ſhould …
With rule
… and to ſay; Heale mee, O God, for my bones are troubled. If the beamesbeams of a houſe bee unſound and ſhaken, how is it poſſible the houſe ſhould …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon Seven Psalms of David · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… interposition of the earth, the Moon is debarred from receiuing light by the Sunne-beamesbeams. And thus in the end, the vnderstanding is conuinced by this demonstration.
With rule
… interposition of the earth, the Moon is debarred from receiuing light by the Sunne-beamesbeams. And thus in the end, the vnderstanding is conuinced by this demonstration.
Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · p. 101 · Open in the reader
Printed
… gathered into one body (the Sunne) and made it as a fountaine, from whose beamesbeams not onely other creatures, but the heavenly lights themselues should borrow all their splendour …
With rule
… gathered into one body (the Sunne) and made it as a fountaine, from whose beamesbeams not onely other creatures, but the heavenly lights themselues should borrow all their splendour …
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 89 · Open in the reader
Printed
… whome so longe as the residews of the starres beholde, resplendishynge with most bright beamesbeams, they …hine ouer the whole worloe: But yf any of them by the enuious …
With rule
… whome so longe as the residews of the starres beholde, resplendishynge with most bright beamesbeams, they …hine ouer the whole worloe: But yf any of them by the enuious …
William Fulke · Anti-Prognostication · Open in the reader
Printed
… is the Church. To the members whereof, the streames of his holy bloud and beamesbeams of his grace, for the remission of sinne & sanctification, be orderly, through the blessed …
With rule
… is the Church. To the members whereof, the streames of his holy bloud and beamesbeams of his grace, for the remission of sinne & sanctification, be orderly, through the blessed …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to her own name in the manner of her apparition, flaſhing out rayes or beamesbeams of light. O Luciam lucidiſsimam, or rather O luculentam fraudem, O lutulentum ſcelus! A …
With rule
… to her own name in the manner of her apparition, flaſhing out rayes or beamesbeams of light. O Luciam lucidiſsimam, or rather O luculentam fraudem, O lutulentum ſcelus! A …
John Gee · New Shreds of the Old Snare · p. 15 · 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.

Beams of Divine Light A12166

Printed
BEAMESBEAMS OF DIVINE LIGHT, Breaking forth from severall places of holy Scripture, as they were …
With rule
BEAMESBEAMS OF DIVINE LIGHT, Breaking forth from severall places of holy Scripture, as they were …
Richard Sibbes · Beams of Divine Light · Open in the reader