Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1770 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

heireheir

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

Puritas changed it: 3,505 times in 961 works
Consistency: 99.8% (3,505 of 3,511)
Reach if approved: ~3,689 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: heir
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 3,511 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,505 changes in 961 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,505)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
MADAM, Your right is greateſt to this Sermon, as being heireheir to the man, though not to his lands: what he was, I neede not …
With rule
MADAM, Your right is greateſt to this Sermon, as being heireheir to the man, though not to his lands: what he was, I neede not …
Robert Harris · Samuels Funeral · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Chimney corner, that his HeireHeir may frequent Ordinaries: hee drinkes water, that his HeireHeir may drinke wine, and that to drunkennesse. Though hee be richer then Diues, he …
With rule
… the Chimney corner, that his HeireHeir may frequent Ordinaries: hee drinkes water, that his HeireHeir may drinke wine, and that to drunkennesse. Though hee be richer then Diues, he …
Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 81 · Open in the reader
Printed
This Pope made Robert Guichard (diſplacing the right heireheir) Duke of Apulia, Calabria, Sycilia, and Captaine generall of Saint Peters landes: that through …
With rule
This Pope made Robert Guichard (diſplacing the right heireheir) Duke of Apulia, Calabria, Sycilia, and Captaine generall of Saint Peters landes: that through …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 130 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Gods fauour: write in thy will, that our Lorde may be named a fellowe heireheir with thy children and kinnesfolkes. Neuerthelesse, let no man take occasion hereby, to be …
With rule
… Gods fauour: write in thy will, that our Lorde may be named a fellowe heireheir with thy children and kinnesfolkes. Neuerthelesse, let no man take occasion hereby, to be …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 242 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Sonnes, ſaith the Apoſtle, we are Heires too; euen coheires with Chriſt, who is HeireHeir of all.
With rule
… Sonnes, ſaith the Apoſtle, we are Heires too; euen coheires with Chriſt, who is HeireHeir of all.
Thomas Gataker · True Contentment in the Gain of Godliness · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which came for fruites, euen the Prophets, vntill they had killed the ſonne and heireheir himſelfe. Now the naturall braunches are broken off, and the wilde oliues, euen the …
With rule
… which came for fruites, euen the Prophets, vntill they had killed the ſonne and heireheir himſelfe. Now the naturall braunches are broken off, and the wilde oliues, euen the …
George Gifford · Short Treatise Against the Donatists of England · p. 49 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be giuen by God. It is with Saints as with an onely child and heireheir while his father liueth: though he haue a right to all that his father …
With rule
… be giuen by God. It is with Saints as with an onely child and heireheir while his father liueth: though he haue a right to all that his father …
William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 102 · Open in the reader
Printed
… godlines, to giue testimonie of a good conscience, yet though the man be an heireheir, it wil not deliuer his soule; this onely the word of God can do …
With rule
… godlines, to giue testimonie of a good conscience, yet though the man be an heireheir, it wil not deliuer his soule; this onely the word of God can do …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 553 · 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.

Law A00741

Printed
HEireHeir what, 116. in what caſe he ſhall bee bound by his anceſtor, 119. Hereditaments what. 111, 134. Hereſie …
With rule
HEireHeir what, 116. in what caſe he ſhall bee bound by his anceſtor, 119. Hereditaments what. 111, 134. Hereſie …
Henry Finch · Law · Open in the reader

Commentary on Isaiah A17640

Printed
TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTIE PRINCE, HENRIE, PRINCE OF GREAT BRITTAINE, SONNE AND HEIREHEIR APPARANT TO our Soueraigne Lord, IAMES King of Great Brittaine, &c. AND TO THE …
With rule
TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTIE PRINCE, HENRIE, PRINCE OF GREAT BRITTAINE, SONNE AND HEIREHEIR APPARANT TO our Soueraigne Lord, IAMES King of Great Brittaine, &c. AND TO THE …
John Calvin · Commentary on Isaiah · Open in the reader

Sermon on the History of Melchizedek A17696

Printed
… had giuen him his word before. For he ſaid (HE SHALL NOT BE THINE HEIREHEIR, but one ſhall come out of thine own bowels, he ſhalbe thine heireheir. No …
With rule
… had giuen him his word before. For he ſaid (HE SHALL NOT BE THINE HEIREHEIR, but one ſhall come out of thine own bowels, he ſhalbe thine heireheir. No …
John Calvin · Sermon on the History of Melchizedek · p. 95 · Open in the reader

The Resurrection Revealed A44277

Printed
… come upon the Gentiles; That the promiſe to Abraham, that he ſhould be THE HEIREHEIR OF THE WORLD was not to Abraham, and his ſeed through the Law, but …
With rule
… come upon the Gentiles; That the promiſe to Abraham, that he ſhould be THE HEIREHEIR OF THE WORLD was not to Abraham, and his ſeed through the Law, but …
Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 142 · Open in the reader

A Body of Divinity A64622

Printed
… art no more a servant but a SON, and if a SON, then an HEIREHEIR of God through Christ: intimating thereby, that what relation Christ hath unto God by …
With rule
… art no more a servant but a SON, and if a SON, then an HEIREHEIR of God through Christ: intimating thereby, that what relation Christ hath unto God by …
James Ussher · A Body of Divinity · p. 3 · Open in the reader