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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1628 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

townestowns

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

Puritas changed it
2,728 times in 849 works
Consistency
100% (2,728 of 2,728)
Reach if approved
~2,866 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: towns
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
2,728 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,728 changes in 849 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,728)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … all that, hee died a beggar: These Theeues haue such nets to catch whole TownesTowns, Commons, Churches, Steeples and all, but in the end the net breakes, and the …
    With rule
    … all that, hee died a beggar: These Theeues haue such nets to catch whole TownesTowns, Commons, Churches, Steeples and all, but in the end the net breakes, and the …

    Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 64 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … whore of Babilon, in Calabria, Mora…, & Fraunce. Where haue beene whole ci…ties or townestowns of thē, as Merundal, Cabriers &c. Wherefore it is an impudent assertion of Saunder …
    With rule
    … whore of Babilon, in Calabria, Mora…, & Fraunce. Where haue beene whole ci…ties or townestowns of thē, as Merundal, Cabriers &c. Wherefore it is an impudent assertion of Saunder …

    William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 324 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … doe him ſeruice. A fine engine to wheele about, and ſcrue whole families and TownesTowns, by the pully which twineth the long rope of Spiritualls reaching out ad temporalia.
    With rule
    … doe him ſeruice. A fine engine to wheele about, and ſcrue whole families and TownesTowns, by the pully which twineth the long rope of Spiritualls reaching out ad temporalia.

    John Gee · The Foot out of the Snare · p. 74 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … deuoure, deſtroye, ād ouerthrowe all thinges: not your fieldes ād paſtures onely: but villages, TownesTowns, Cities, and Caſtels, yea your ſelues, your wyues, and children, and what ſo euer …
    With rule
    … deuoure, deſtroye, ād ouerthrowe all thinges: not your fieldes ād paſtures onely: but villages, TownesTowns, Cities, and Caſtels, yea your ſelues, your wyues, and children, and what ſo euer …

    Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 176 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … worthy to suffer for the name of Christ: So worldly ioyes are but like TownesTowns and Countries, finely painted in the Map, which as with a little water any …
    With rule
    … worthy to suffer for the name of Christ: So worldly ioyes are but like TownesTowns and Countries, finely painted in the Map, which as with a little water any …

    Walter Balcanquhall · Sermon Preached 14 April 1623 · p. 83 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Livings, or Bookes, or all: wee have all; Magiſtrates, Miniſters, Lawes, Trades, Schooles, Churches, TownesTowns, all, and all of the beſt; of Kings the beſt, of Courts the beſt …
    With rule
    … Livings, or Bookes, or all: wee have all; Magiſtrates, Miniſters, Lawes, Trades, Schooles, Churches, TownesTowns, all, and all of the beſt; of Kings the beſt, of Courts the beſt …

    Robert Harris · Hezekiahs Recovery · p. 10 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … as they had receyued of Popes, but also were berefte of all their landes, townestowns and goodes which they had by inheritaunce. Furthermore he gathered an armye, and pursued …
    With rule
    … as they had receyued of Popes, but also were berefte of all their landes, townestowns and goodes which they had by inheritaunce. Furthermore he gathered an armye, and pursued …

    John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 125 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Scepters paſſe from one hand to another; fenced Cities are made heapes, and walled TownesTowns become as the plowed fields: they which were once faſtened as a nayle in …
    With rule
    … Scepters paſſe from one hand to another; fenced Cities are made heapes, and walled TownesTowns become as the plowed fields: they which were once faſtened as a nayle in …

    Samuel Hieron · The Spiritual Fishing · p. 2 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.