Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1525 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

headesheads

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

Puritas changed it: 1,913 times in 467 works
Consistency: 97.9% (1,913 of 1,953)
Reach if approved: ~2,052 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: heads
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,953 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,913 changes in 467 works, 97.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,913)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
The 4. principall headesheads or common places of M. Somes book
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The 4. principall headesheads or common places of M. Somes book
Job Throckmorton · Some Laid Open in his Colors · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… you nothing but by his mouth, no not of the couering of your womens headesheads, nor yet the vncouering of your owen headesheads, that be the men, in your …
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… you nothing but by his mouth, no not of the couering of your womens headesheads, nor yet the vncouering of your owen headesheads, that be the men, in your …
George Hay · The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass · Open in the reader
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… knowne, that we haue but the briefe and ſumme, and as it were the headesheads of their ſermons related in the Scripture: for if al that euery one of …
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… knowne, that we haue but the briefe and ſumme, and as it were the headesheads of their ſermons related in the Scripture: for if al that euery one of …
Samuel Hieron · The Preachers Plea · p. 172 · Open in the reader
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… if they be better then the former, abſtayning from thoſe things, haue notwithſtanding their headesheads, hartes, and mouthes, ſo full of worldly things, as they doe not in deede …
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… if they be better then the former, abſtayning from thoſe things, haue notwithſtanding their headesheads, hartes, and mouthes, ſo full of worldly things, as they doe not in deede …
Dudley Fenner · Brief Treatise Upon the First Table of the Law · Open in the reader
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… of the pariſh of Spure were detected by Richarde Ryburne, for holding downe their headesheads at the ſacring time, and when the belles did ring at the feaſt of …
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… of the pariſh of Spure were detected by Richarde Ryburne, for holding downe their headesheads at the ſacring time, and when the belles did ring at the feaſt of …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 4 · Open in the reader
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… the summe of thē: & not rather word for word most plainly, how are the headesheads of them strengthened, or their Princedoms, as in the Greeke also it is most …
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… the summe of thē: & not rather word for word most plainly, how are the headesheads of them strengthened, or their Princedoms, as in the Greeke also it is most …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 461 · Open in the reader
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… doores, Paule, Scripture, Testament, and Christ too: and not to bring into the peoples headesheads or heartes, the feare and loue of God, the holsom precepts of Paules heauenly …
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… doores, Paule, Scripture, Testament, and Christ too: and not to bring into the peoples headesheads or heartes, the feare and loue of God, the holsom precepts of Paules heauenly …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 217 · Open in the reader
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… raging Seas: ſo ſhall your proude waues of your boyling ſtomacks and ouer buſie headesheads, be broken and brought full lowe, where and when it ſhall like the Lorde …
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… raging Seas: ſo ſhall your proude waues of your boyling ſtomacks and ouer buſie headesheads, be broken and brought full lowe, where and when it ſhall like the Lorde …
Anthony Gilby · Of Election and Reprobation · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (40)

27 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 13 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright A01115

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… another Frier, an outlandiſh man, called Doctor Venetus, beſides all the rabble of the HeadesHeads and Doctors: as, Doctor Watſon, Maſter of Chriſtes Colledge, whoſe Scholer Latimer had béene …
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… another Frier, an outlandiſh man, called Doctor Venetus, beſides all the rabble of the HeadesHeads and Doctors: as, Doctor Watſon, Maſter of Chriſtes Colledge, whoſe Scholer Latimer had béene …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 172 · Open in the reader

Nature and Use of Lots A01545

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… assisted therein according to Gods owne appointment by Eleazar the High-preist and the 12. HeadesHeads of the twelue Tribes. Their seuerall Lots in what course they came the holy …
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… assisted therein according to Gods owne appointment by Eleazar the High-preist and the 12. HeadesHeads of the twelue Tribes. Their seuerall Lots in what course they came the holy …
Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 66 · Open in the reader

The Gallants Burden A01573

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… possesse, and be possessed of rest: they sing to Viols, daunce to Measures: their HeadesHeads ake not, Much lesse their Consciences: But (as to Israel, fatte with Quailes) God …
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… possesse, and be possessed of rest: they sing to Viols, daunce to Measures: their HeadesHeads ake not, Much lesse their Consciences: But (as to Israel, fatte with Quailes) God …
Thomas Adams · The Gallants Burden · Open in the reader

The Church of Englands Antithesis to Arminianism A10180

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… full and puctuall euidences, is the ingeminated confession and reiterated protestation of of the HeadesHeads of the Vniuersity of Cambridge, in a memorable Letter of theirs purposely written about …
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… full and puctuall euidences, is the ingeminated confession and reiterated protestation of of the HeadesHeads of the Vniuersity of Cambridge, in a memorable Letter of theirs purposely written about …
William Prynne · The Church of Englands Antithesis to Arminianism · p. 120 · Open in the reader

The Overthrow of Stage Plays A10335

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… Oxford Preachers haue a badd opinion of the Uicechancelour, the Doctours, the Proctors, the HeadesHeads of houses: for they are wont to pray that we may be good; and …
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… Oxford Preachers haue a badd opinion of the Uicechancelour, the Doctours, the Proctors, the HeadesHeads of houses: for they are wont to pray that we may be good; and …
John Rainolds · The Overthrow of Stage Plays · p. 36 · Open in the reader

The Passion Resurrection and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ A11012

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… of the Croſſe, is but fooliſhneſſe to the wiſe of the world: Theſe wiſe HeadesHeads who compaſſe the Worlde with wiſdome, all is but fooliſhneſſe to them. It is …
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… of the Croſſe, is but fooliſhneſſe to the wiſe of the world: Theſe wiſe HeadesHeads who compaſſe the Worlde with wiſdome, all is but fooliſhneſſe to them. It is …
Robert Rollock · The Passion Resurrection and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ · p. 189 · Open in the reader
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… the effect of all preaching? The whole Goſpell is ſummed vp in thoſe two HeadesHeads, Repentance, and Remiſſion of ſinnes. It is not my purpoſe, to inſiſt largely in …
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… the effect of all preaching? The whole Goſpell is ſummed vp in thoſe two HeadesHeads, Repentance, and Remiſſion of ſinnes. It is not my purpoſe, to inſiſt largely in …
Robert Rollock · The Passion Resurrection and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ · p. 424 · Open in the reader

The Practice of Prelates A14151

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… your meruelous fasshyoned▪ playing coates and youre other popystrye, meane, and what your disfigured HeadesHeads▪ and al your appes play meane, ye know not / and yet are they but …
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… your meruelous fasshyoned▪ playing coates and youre other popystrye, meane, and what your disfigured HeadesHeads▪ and al your appes play meane, ye know not / and yet are they but …
William Tyndale · The Practice of Prelates · Open in the reader

The Sum of Christian Religion 2 A14216

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… chriſt is our Heade, and wee his members. Now it is expedient for the HeadesHeads glorifie, that the members bee glorious. Chriſt indeede ſhoulde bee by himſelfe, though hee …
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… chriſt is our Heade, and wee his members. Now it is expedient for the HeadesHeads glorifie, that the members bee glorious. Chriſt indeede ſhoulde bee by himſelfe, though hee …
Zacharias Ursinus · The Sum of Christian Religion 2 · p. 577 · Open in the reader
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… of the world haue many Heads, or one chiefe Heade, and many other inferiour HeadesHeads beſides, and that on earth. The Church hath but one, and that in heauen …
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… of the world haue many Heads, or one chiefe Heade, and many other inferiour HeadesHeads beſides, and that on earth. The Church hath but one, and that in heauen …
Zacharias Ursinus · The Sum of Christian Religion 2 · p. 634 · Open in the reader

A Christian Dictionary A15520

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… of Warre. Also in Chap. 9. verse 14. By foure Angels is meant, the foure chiefe HeadesHeads or Authours of the Turkish Gouernment, ruled by Diuels.
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… of Warre. Also in Chap. 9. verse 14. By foure Angels is meant, the foure chiefe HeadesHeads or Authours of the Turkish Gouernment, ruled by Diuels.
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 5 · Open in the reader
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HeadesHeads of Lyons. sig:
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HeadesHeads of Lyons. sig:
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 67 · Open in the reader
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Seauen hils, and seauen Kings. Reuel. 17, 9. Seauen HeadesHeads, are seauen hilles; They are also seauen Kings.
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Seauen hils, and seauen Kings. Reuel. 17, 9. Seauen HeadesHeads, are seauen hilles; They are also seauen Kings.
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 67 · Open in the reader
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… which had surprized Rome and taken it. Reuel. 13, 3. And I saw one of his HeadesHeads, as it were, Wounded to death.
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… which had surprized Rome and taken it. Reuel. 13, 3. And I saw one of his HeadesHeads, as it were, Wounded to death.
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 170 · Open in the reader

Of the Head Cornerstone A17242

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… them (by all likelyhood) would bee in obeysance vnto those Fathers that were the HeadesHeads ouer those Families in which they were: and, when others tooke vpon them more …
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… them (by all likelyhood) would bee in obeysance vnto those Fathers that were the HeadesHeads ouer those Families in which they were: and, when others tooke vpon them more …
Edmund Bunny · Of the Head Cornerstone · p. 53 · Open in the reader
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… as the elder of them; or else were more left vnto their owne proper HeadesHeads-man, being the chiefe of those three Families. But it is plaine, that the …
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… as the elder of them; or else were more left vnto their owne proper HeadesHeads-man, being the chiefe of those three Families. But it is plaine, that the …
Edmund Bunny · Of the Head Cornerstone · p. 162 · Open in the reader
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… the course and reading of the Text, it seemeth, that Iosuah called in the HeadesHeads of the people two seuerall times about this matter; and some there be, that …
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… the course and reading of the Text, it seemeth, that Iosuah called in the HeadesHeads of the people two seuerall times about this matter; and some there be, that …
Edmund Bunny · Of the Head Cornerstone · p. 222 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Joshua A17638

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2 Then Ioshue called all Israel, and their Elders, and their HeadesHeads, and their Iudges, and their Officers, and said vnto them, I am olde, and …
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2 Then Ioshue called all Israel, and their Elders, and their HeadesHeads, and their Iudges, and their Officers, and said vnto them, I am olde, and …
John Calvin · Commentary on Joshua · Open in the reader
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… it was free for all men to come, but that assemblie was appointed of HeadesHeads and Rulers. And so this later member of the sentence seemeth to me, to …
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… it was free for all men to come, but that assemblie was appointed of HeadesHeads and Rulers. And so this later member of the sentence seemeth to me, to …
John Calvin · Commentary on Joshua · p. 98 · Open in the reader

A Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift A18078

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… to trip / as it were / and to paſſe ouer with a light foote / the HeadesHeads / and Summes of things / then to number the faultes which are almoſt / as many …
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… to trip / as it were / and to paſſe ouer with a light foote / the HeadesHeads / and Summes of things / then to number the faultes which are almoſt / as many …
Thomas Cartwright · A Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift · p. 220 · Open in the reader

A Treasury of Similes A18271

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Newly collected into HeadesHeads and Common places: By Robert Cawdray.
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Newly collected into HeadesHeads and Common places: By Robert Cawdray.
Robert Cawdrey · A Treasury of Similes · Open in the reader

Canterburys Doom A56144

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… my L. Duke of Bucking a little tract ABOVT DOCTRINALL PVRJTANISME, in ſome ten HeadesHeads, which his Grace had ſpoken to me that I would draw for him, that …
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… my L. Duke of Bucking a little tract ABOVT DOCTRINALL PVRJTANISME, in ſome ten HeadesHeads, which his Grace had ſpoken to me that I would draw for him, that …
William Prynne · Canterburys Doom · p. 156 · Open in the reader
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What a Plague and Poyſon theſe Arminian, Popiſh Prelates, Deanes, Prebends, HeadesHeads of houſes, Parſons and Vicars thus advanced by him proved to our Church, how …
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What a Plague and Poyſon theſe Arminian, Popiſh Prelates, Deanes, Prebends, HeadesHeads of houſes, Parſons and Vicars thus advanced by him proved to our Church, how …
William Prynne · Canterburys Doom · p. 361 · Open in the reader

Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 A67927

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HeadesHeads of children 6000. found in the Popes motes thorough the restraint of Priests lawfull mariage. 139.1155
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HeadesHeads of children 6000. found in the Popes motes thorough the restraint of Priests lawfull mariage. 139.1155
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · Open in the reader

Whole Works A68831

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HeadesHeads and gouerners are ordeined of God, and are euen the gifte of God, whether …
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HeadesHeads and gouerners are ordeined of God, and are euen the gifte of God, whether …
William Tyndale · Whole Works · p. 118 · Open in the reader

Commentaries A68840

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HeadesHeads couered, in token that they haue authority aboue them. 93
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HeadesHeads couered, in token that they haue authority aboue them. 93
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentaries · Open in the reader

The Wisemans Forecast Against the Evil Time A72475

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… peruert all equitie. They build vp Sion with bloud, and Ieruſalem with iniquitie; The HeadesHeads thereof iudge for reward: Therefore ſhall Sion for your ſake be plowed as a …
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… peruert all equitie. They build vp Sion with bloud, and Ieruſalem with iniquitie; The HeadesHeads thereof iudge for reward: Therefore ſhall Sion for your ſake be plowed as a …
Thomas Barnes · The Wisemans Forecast Against the Evil Time · p. 24 · Open in the reader