Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1576 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

compassecompass

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

Puritas changed it: 7,470 times in 1,868 works
Consistency: 99.9% (7,470 of 7,477)
Reach if approved: ~7,856 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: compass
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 7,477 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (7,470 changes in 1,868 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 7,470)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… impeachable evidences extant in the booke inti…uled, Harmony of confessions: and I will compassecompass you in both with such a cloud … witnesses that you shall see no way …
With rule
… impeachable evidences extant in the booke inti…uled, Harmony of confessions: and I will compassecompass you in both with such a cloud … witnesses that you shall see no way …
Daniel Featley · Transubstantiation Exploded · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
The other two, helping the compassecompass roving,
With rule
The other two, helping the compassecompass roving,
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wee shall bee kept by the God of peace. The one is the regular CompasseCompass of our life on Earth, the other is the glorious Crowne of our life …
With rule
… wee shall bee kept by the God of peace. The one is the regular CompasseCompass of our life on Earth, the other is the glorious Crowne of our life …
Thomas Adams · The City of Peace · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… receiued their peny in the Gospel, but they onely which had laboured within the compassecompass of the Vinyarde: so no man shal receiue any reward, for any good deede …
With rule
… receiued their peny in the Gospel, but they onely which had laboured within the compassecompass of the Vinyarde: so no man shal receiue any reward, for any good deede …
William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · Open in the reader
Printed
… signifie themselues, as it was wont to doe, Sander wil teach vs, that the compassecompass or formes of bread and wine, are the diuine secrets themselues. For Cyprian saith …
With rule
… signifie themselues, as it was wont to doe, Sander wil teach vs, that the compassecompass or formes of bread and wine, are the diuine secrets themselues. For Cyprian saith …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 409 · Open in the reader
Printed
… can by no meanes bring men eternally unto God: For how ſhall earthly things compaſſecompass heavenly, or things which vaniſh and decay, bring that to paſſe which ſhall laſt …
With rule
… can by no meanes bring men eternally unto God: For how ſhall earthly things compaſſecompass heavenly, or things which vaniſh and decay, bring that to paſſe which ſhall laſt …
George Gifford · Treatise Against the Priesthood and Sacrifice of the Church of Rome · Open in the reader
Printed
… He that will eſcape muſt be ſober, and watch, for a multitude of Diuelles compaſſecompass vs about. It is ſayd further, As a roring Lyon. We are very faſt …
With rule
… He that will eſcape muſt be ſober, and watch, for a multitude of Diuelles compaſſecompass vs about. It is ſayd further, As a roring Lyon. We are very faſt …
George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Lot: they are both found in this Chapter, and therefore come fitly within the compaſſecompass of this diſcourſe.
With rule
… Lot: they are both found in this Chapter, and therefore come fitly within the compaſſecompass of this diſcourſe.
Thomas Goodwin · Aggravation of Sin · p. 51 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

7 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.

A Quench-Coal A10197

Printed
… is evident by Psal. 26. 6. I will wash my hands in innocencie, soe wil I COMPASSECOMPASS thyne Altar … Lord. Wee reade in the 2. Kings 11. 11. that when Jehoash was Crowned, the …
With rule
… is evident by Psal. 26. 6. I will wash my hands in innocencie, soe wil I COMPASSECOMPASS thyne Altar … Lord. Wee reade in the 2. Kings 11. 11. that when Jehoash was Crowned, the …
William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… doest thou not thinke that the Angells stand ROVND ABOVT THIS DREADFVLL TABLE, AND COMPASSECOMPASS IT ON EVERY SIDE with reverence? A cleare Evidence, that the Table was soe …
With rule
… doest thou not thinke that the Angells stand ROVND ABOVT THIS DREADFVLL TABLE, AND COMPASSECOMPASS IT ON EVERY SIDE with reverence? A cleare Evidence, that the Table was soe …
William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Lord anciently stood IN THE MIDST OF THE CHANCLE, so that they might COMPASSECOMPASS IT ROUND: This he proves in the marge…t by Eusebius Eccles. Hist. l …
With rule
… the Lord anciently stood IN THE MIDST OF THE CHANCLE, so that they might COMPASSECOMPASS IT ROUND: This he proves in the marge…t by Eusebius Eccles. Hist. l …
William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 290 · Open in the reader

Canterburys Doom A56144

Printed
… ſt thou not think that the Angels, ſtand Round about this dreadfull TABLE and COMPASSECOMPASS IT ABOVT ON EVERY SIDE? So Athanaſius in the life of Anthony makes …tion …
With rule
… ſt thou not think that the Angels, ſtand Round about this dreadfull TABLE and COMPASSECOMPASS IT ABOVT ON EVERY SIDE? So Athanaſius in the life of Anthony makes …tion …
William Prynne · Canterburys Doom · p. 482 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the Pſalmiſt, I will waſh my hands in Jnnocency, and ſo will I, COMPASSECOMPASS, or go ROVND ABOVT THINE ALTAR. And in the ancient Roman Order in Caſſanders …
With rule
… of the Pſalmiſt, I will waſh my hands in Jnnocency, and ſo will I, COMPASSECOMPASS, or go ROVND ABOVT THINE ALTAR. And in the ancient Roman Order in Caſſanders …
William Prynne · Canterburys Doom · p. 482 · Open in the reader

The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms A56211

Printed
… by the Statute of 25 E. 3. c. 2. it is high Treason for any man to COMPASSECOMPASS OR IMAGIN the death of the King, Queen, Prince, as wel as to slay …
With rule
… by the Statute of 25 E. 3. c. 2. it is high Treason for any man to COMPASSECOMPASS OR IMAGIN the death of the King, Queen, Prince, as wel as to slay …
William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · p. 137 · Open in the reader

The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms Part 3 A91298

Printed
… by the Statute of 25 E. 3. c. 2. it is high Treaſon for any man to COMPASSECOMPASS OR IMAGIN the death of the King, Queen, Prince, as wel as to ſlay …
With rule
… by the Statute of 25 E. 3. c. 2. it is high Treaſon for any man to COMPASSECOMPASS OR IMAGIN the death of the King, Queen, Prince, as wel as to ſlay …
William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms Part 3 · p. 137 · Open in the reader