Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2136 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

beamebeam

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

Puritas changed it: 1,193 times in 590 works
Consistency: 99.9% (1,193 of 1,194)
Reach if approved: ~1,255 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: beam
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,194 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,193 changes in 590 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,193)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… earnestly endeavour to take out the mote out of your eye, and leave the beamebeam in his mothers eye the church of Rome, is your credit dearer to him …
With rule
… earnestly endeavour to take out the mote out of your eye, and leave the beamebeam in his mothers eye the church of Rome, is your credit dearer to him …
Daniel Featley · Transubstantiation Exploded · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sight to see a mote in other mens eies, but can not see a beamebeam in your owne. You make your demonstration by the Caluinists and Puritans at home …
With rule
… sight to see a mote in other mens eies, but can not see a beamebeam in your owne. You make your demonstration by the Caluinists and Puritans at home …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſtone, do not weigh them out in the Ballance of the Sanctuarie, at the BeameBeam of Gods word: and therefore no maruaile, if they take the falſe Riches for …
With rule
… ſtone, do not weigh them out in the Ballance of the Sanctuarie, at the BeameBeam of Gods word: and therefore no maruaile, if they take the falſe Riches for …
Thomas Gataker · True Contentment in the Gain of Godliness · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… by himſelfe. If the Kingsmaners diſpleaſe thee, looke to thy ſelfe, and conſider the beamebeam that is in thine owne eyes. For thou in thy ſtate and dealings, and …
With rule
… by himſelfe. If the Kingsmaners diſpleaſe thee, looke to thy ſelfe, and conſider the beamebeam that is in thine owne eyes. For thou in thy ſtate and dealings, and …
Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · p. 277 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not se, or els that he seyth a smal moate, and leteth the great beamebeam passe by, as ded the hypocrytes, Math. vii. He hath a strayght eye to …
With rule
… not se, or els that he seyth a smal moate, and leteth the great beamebeam passe by, as ded the hypocrytes, Math. vii. He hath a strayght eye to …
John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · p. xxviii · Open in the reader
Printed
… vs, to make the written word, as it were the ſtandard or the kings beamebeam, by which to try all doctrine that is tendred to vs, accepting none for …
With rule
… vs, to make the written word, as it were the ſtandard or the kings beamebeam, by which to try all doctrine that is tendred to vs, accepting none for …
Samuel Hieron · The Dignity of the Scripture · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is with rotten buildings, which are all painted over, but have ſcarce a ſound beamebeam, or any other timber to beare up the houſe: ſo it is in this …
With rule
… is with rotten buildings, which are all painted over, but have ſcarce a ſound beamebeam, or any other timber to beare up the houſe: ſo it is in this …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Implantation into the Natural Olive · p. 75 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and ſo his greaues and target, the ſtaffe of his ſpeare like a weauers beamebeam, the head of it weighing ſixe hundred ſhekels of yron: what inequalitie was here …
With rule
… and ſo his greaues and target, the ſtaffe of his ſpeare like a weauers beamebeam, the head of it weighing ſixe hundred ſhekels of yron: what inequalitie was here …
Robert Jenison · The Christians Apparelling · p. 250 · 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.

A Beam of Light Darted Through the Clouds A50858

Printed
A BEAMEBEAM OF LIGHT DARTED Thorough the Clouds: OR, Truth breaking forth from under a Veil.
With rule
A BEAMEBEAM OF LIGHT DARTED Thorough the Clouds: OR, Truth breaking forth from under a Veil.
Joshua Miller · A Beam of Light Darted Through the Clouds · Open in the reader