Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1984 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

bullesbulls

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

Puritas changed it: 338 times in 153 works
Consistency: 100% (338 of 338)
Reach if approved: ~355 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: bulls
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 338 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (338 changes in 153 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 338)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the scripturs with their sophistrye / sorcerye / wyles / wytchecraftes / decrees / decretals / actes / clementynes / extrauagantes / pryuileges / bullesbulls / & prouinciall synodals / makynge playne merchandyce both of the bodyes and sowles of menne. This …
With rule
… the scripturs with their sophistrye / sorcerye / wyles / wytchecraftes / decrees / decretals / actes / clementynes / extrauagantes / pryuileges / bullesbulls / & prouinciall synodals / makynge playne merchandyce both of the bodyes and sowles of menne. This …
John Bale · A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted · Open in the reader
Printed
… Hath he medled with …, … holy fathers marchaundice? No. Hath he counterfayted our holy Fathers BullesBulls? No. For these were hye treasons. … an other in the eare and sayid: Erat …
With rule
… Hath he medled with …, … holy fathers marchaundice? No. Hath he counterfayted our holy Fathers BullesBulls? No. For these were hye treasons. … an other in the eare and sayid: Erat …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 61 · Open in the reader
Printed
There be papers and bullesbulls of the pope wherin he roryth lyke a lyon (as the angel painteth hym …
With rule
There be papers and bullesbulls of the pope wherin he roryth lyke a lyon (as the angel painteth hym …
Martin Luther · Last Will and Confession · Open in the reader
Printed
To the Queene of England he will alleage, that firſt by the Popes BullesBulls ſhe is denounced an heretique, and therevpon excommunicated: then, that in diuerſe dealinges both …
With rule
To the Queene of England he will alleage, that firſt by the Popes BullesBulls ſhe is denounced an heretique, and therevpon excommunicated: then, that in diuerſe dealinges both …
Phillips Marnix · An Exhortation Concerning the Estate of Christendom · p. 69 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the same? and notwithstanding the counsell of Thuring indicted the contrarie, yet with the bullesbulls I dissanulled that decreement. 208. What should I speake of murther, making it no murther …
With rule
… the same? and notwithstanding the counsell of Thuring indicted the contrarie, yet with the bullesbulls I dissanulled that decreement. 208. What should I speake of murther, making it no murther …
John Foxe · A Blow for the Pope · p. 35 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as Aristotle sheweth in that your selfe mention of his reproving nature for setting bullesbulls hornes vpon their heades, not vpon their shoulders) was devised to checke such as …
With rule
… as Aristotle sheweth in that your selfe mention of his reproving nature for setting bullesbulls hornes vpon their heades, not vpon their shoulders) was devised to checke such as …
John Rainolds · The Overthrow of Stage Plays · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to conclude the common people, yea euen of the verie papistes, do contemne his bullesbulls, and pardons, and deride and mocke his curses, violate & breke his lawes and decrees …
With rule
… to conclude the common people, yea euen of the verie papistes, do contemne his bullesbulls, and pardons, and deride and mocke his curses, violate & breke his lawes and decrees …
William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
… for the quicke and the dead: application of the merites of Christes passion in BullesBulls, application of the merites of all religious orders, & such other moe, specified more at …
With rule
… for the quicke and the dead: application of the merites of Christes passion in BullesBulls, application of the merites of all religious orders, & such other moe, specified more at …
Patrick Hamilton · Concerning the Doctrine of Faith and of the Law · p. 17 · 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.