Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1961 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

captainescaptains

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

Puritas changed it: 2,195 times in 708 works
Consistency: 99.9% (2,195 of 2,196)
Reach if approved: ~2,308 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: captains
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,197 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,195 changes in 708 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,195)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… For euery faith, is not a sauing faith. The King of Syria commanded his CaptainesCaptains, ^y Fight neither with small nor great, saue onely with the King of Israel …
With rule
… For euery faith, is not a sauing faith. The King of Syria commanded his CaptainesCaptains, ^y Fight neither with small nor great, saue onely with the King of Israel …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 429 · Open in the reader
Printed
… shut out of dores: They say, the Italian Ducades make their Priestes Duces, Princes, CaptainesCaptains, braue fellowes. The Spanish Pistolets make their Priestes terrours to be feared, the word …
With rule
… shut out of dores: They say, the Italian Ducades make their Priestes Duces, Princes, CaptainesCaptains, braue fellowes. The Spanish Pistolets make their Priestes terrours to be feared, the word …
Thomas Adams · Heaven and Earth Reconciled · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
To the well deseruing Captaine EDWARD PANTON, the CaptainesCaptains and truly generous Gentlemen, Citizens of London, of the Societie of ARMES, practising in …
With rule
To the well deseruing Captaine EDWARD PANTON, the CaptainesCaptains and truly generous Gentlemen, Citizens of London, of the Societie of ARMES, practising in …
Thomas Adams · The Soldiers Honor · Open in the reader
Printed
They are CaptainesCaptains, and therefore it is their part to fight Gods battailes: and as good leaders …
With rule
They are CaptainesCaptains, and therefore it is their part to fight Gods battailes: and as good leaders …
Samuel Hieron · Aarons Bells · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for deali… ſo, or they to be conde… ned: they are the D… vils CaptainesCaptains, and giv… preſſe money: as if a Wife Childe, or Servant begi… to looke …
With rule
… for deali… ſo, or they to be conde… ned: they are the D… vils CaptainesCaptains, and giv… preſſe money: as if a Wife Childe, or Servant begi… to looke …
Thomas Hooker · Three Sermons · p. 102 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſacring Bel, holy water bucket, and ſprinkle, beeds, and other Popiſh traſh, & the chiefe captainescaptains moſt diſloial carried to London to be executed.
With rule
… ſacring Bel, holy water bucket, and ſprinkle, beeds, and other Popiſh traſh, & the chiefe captainescaptains moſt diſloial carried to London to be executed.
Laurence Humphrey · A View of the Romish Hydra · p. 120 · Open in the reader
Printed
… where the Pope did hide himſelfe, becauſe he was borne in the towne, the captainescaptains of which armie was one Schaira brother to the foreſaid cardinals, and another William …
With rule
… where the Pope did hide himſelfe, becauſe he was borne in the towne, the captainescaptains of which armie was one Schaira brother to the foreſaid cardinals, and another William …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 239 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Sacramentis, which he cited last before as Ambroses. So that he doth herein as CaptainesCaptains, that wanting of their full number borrow one of an other, and so produce …
With rule
… Sacramentis, which he cited last before as Ambroses. So that he doth herein as CaptainesCaptains, that wanting of their full number borrow one of an other, and so produce …
Thomas Gataker · Discussion of the Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation · p. 62 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 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.

The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms A56211

Printed
… ADVISE OF HIS SAGE COVNSELL, h…e would ordaine SVRE (or trusty) and SVFFICIENT CAPTAINESCAPTAINS and GARDIANS OF HIS CASTLES and FORTRESSES as well in Engla…d as in …
With rule
… ADVISE OF HIS SAGE COVNSELL, h…e would ordaine SVRE (or trusty) and SVFFICIENT CAPTAINESCAPTAINS and GARDIANS OF HIS CASTLES and FORTRESSES as well in Engla…d as in …
William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · p. 62 · Open in the reader