Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1574 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

almesalms

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

Puritas changed it: 5,907 times in 1,332 works
Consistency: 99.9% (5,907 of 5,913)
Reach if approved: ~6,214 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: alms
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 5,914 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (5,907 changes in 1,332 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 5,907)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… are abolished and made of no effect, except these sacrifices of * prayse & thankesgiuing, of almesalms conteining the spirituall worship of the kingly priesthod which are perpetuall amongst al Christians …
With rule
… are abolished and made of no effect, except these sacrifices of * prayse & thankesgiuing, of almesalms conteining the spirituall worship of the kingly priesthod which are perpetuall amongst al Christians …
John Field · A Caveat for Parsons Howlet · Open in the reader
Printed
… if mo fell in a towne, than it was able to mainteine, the ſaid almesalms houſes to reléeue ſuch townes.
With rule
… if mo fell in a towne, than it was able to mainteine, the ſaid almesalms houſes to reléeue ſuch townes.
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 309 · Open in the reader
Printed
… geuer, and the person for whose sake it is geuen. And this kinde of almesalms is it, which good Tobie did commende vnto his sonne, being so much more …
With rule
… geuer, and the person for whose sake it is geuen. And this kinde of almesalms is it, which good Tobie did commende vnto his sonne, being so much more …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 244 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the prayers, ſacrifices, preachings, contemplations, faſtings, watchings, pilgrimages, vowes, obedience, chaſtity, pouerty, patience, mercy, almesalms, and of all other ſpirituall labours, trauels, paines, exerciſes, &c. that bee done either …
With rule
… the prayers, ſacrifices, preachings, contemplations, faſtings, watchings, pilgrimages, vowes, obedience, chaſtity, pouerty, patience, mercy, almesalms, and of all other ſpirituall labours, trauels, paines, exerciſes, &c. that bee done either …
John Gee · New Shreds of the Old Snare · p. 110 · Open in the reader
Printed
… worketh righteouſneſſe, is accepted of Him, (for the prayers of Cornelius, Act. 10. and his almesalms came up for a memoriall before God, before he heard the Goſpel preached by …
With rule
… worketh righteouſneſſe, is accepted of Him, (for the prayers of Cornelius, Act. 10. and his almesalms came up for a memoriall before God, before he heard the Goſpel preached by …
Alexander Gill · The Sacred Philosophy of the Holy Scripture · p. 109 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Fryery, Nunnery, Hermitage, or the like: going up and downe to beg: living on almesalms: offering ſuch and ſuch ſummes of money at ſuch and ſuch religious places: forbearing …
With rule
… Fryery, Nunnery, Hermitage, or the like: going up and downe to beg: living on almesalms: offering ſuch and ſuch ſummes of money at ſuch and ſuch religious places: forbearing …
William Gouge · Gods Three Arrows · p. 44 · Open in the reader
Printed
… expected? and so thy visitation may bee far…e from charity. Thou mayst build AlmesAlms-houses; and give great revenues to maintaine them; yet their is a leaven of …
With rule
… expected? and so thy visitation may bee far…e from charity. Thou mayst build AlmesAlms-houses; and give great revenues to maintaine them; yet their is a leaven of …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Lords Prayer · p. 160 · Open in the reader
Printed
… taken away; but, not so much left as the verie Crumbes of the Poores AlmesAlms vnsnatched vp greedilie.
With rule
… taken away; but, not so much left as the verie Crumbes of the Poores AlmesAlms vnsnatched vp greedilie.
William Guild · The Humble Address Both of Church and Poor to Britains Monarch · p. 19 · 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.

Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue A01309

Printed
… he) as though a mā might aske, what iustice? he addeth. WHEN THOVDOST AN ALMESALMS DEEDS. He signified therefore, that almesalms are the works of iustice. And in the …
With rule
… he) as though a mā might aske, what iustice? he addeth. WHEN THOVDOST AN ALMESALMS DEEDS. He signified therefore, that almesalms are the works of iustice. And in the …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 375 · Open in the reader

Miscellanies Christian and Judaical A05462

Printed
ALmesAlms in Rabbin Hebrew are called foreign Tsedhakah righteousnesse, which word the Syrian Translator vseth, Mat …
With rule
ALmesAlms in Rabbin Hebrew are called foreign Tsedhakah righteousnesse, which word the Syrian Translator vseth, Mat …
John Lightfoot · Miscellanies Christian and Judaical · p. 138 · Open in the reader

The Plea of the Poor A20764

Printed
OR A TREATISE OF BENEFICENCE AND ALMESALMS-DEEDS: teaching how theſe Chriſtian duties are rightly to be performed, and perſwading to …
With rule
OR A TREATISE OF BENEFICENCE AND ALMESALMS-DEEDS: teaching how theſe Chriſtian duties are rightly to be performed, and perſwading to …
John Downame · The Plea of the Poor · Open in the reader

Commentary on the Epistles and Revelation of John A63065

Printed
… of mercy, Mat 6.1. whereas our Saviour ſaith, Take heed that you doe not you ALMESALMS before men, the Syriack Tranſlatour renders it, Take heed that you do not your …
With rule
… of mercy, Mat 6.1. whereas our Saviour ſaith, Take heed that you doe not you ALMESALMS before men, the Syriack Tranſlatour renders it, Take heed that you do not your …
John Trapp · Commentary on the Epistles and Revelation of John · p. 635 · Open in the reader

A Plea for Alms A96106

Printed
A PLEA FOR ALMESALMS.
With rule
A PLEA FOR ALMESALMS.
Thomas Watson · A Plea for Alms · p. 1 · Open in the reader