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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #21694 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

curatscurates

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

Puritas changed it
405 times in 104 works
Consistency
95.7% (405 of 423)
Reach if approved
~444 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: curats
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
423 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (405 changes in 104 works, 95.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 405)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … without the licence of the Dioceſan, firſt requyred & obtayned, yet by the ſame Act, CuratsCurates in their owne Churches, and Parſons priviledged were excepted, and by the Provinciall Conſtitutions …
    With rule
    … without the licence of the Dioceſan, firſt requyred & obtayned, yet by the ſame Act, CuratsCurates in their owne Churches, and Parſons priviledged were excepted, and by the Provinciall Conſtitutions …

    William Bradshaw · A Mild and Just Defense of Certain Arguments · p. 114 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … ſtead ſet up Dioceſans over multitudes of Pariſhes without any Biſhops under them, but CuratsCurates only.
    With rule
    … ſtead ſet up Dioceſans over multitudes of Pariſhes without any Biſhops under them, but CuratsCurates only.

    Richard Baxter · The True Way of Concord of All the Christian Churches · p. 45 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    As to the other Prelats and the CuratsCurates, the ſame Author repreſents them to us after this manner. In theſe Times, ſays …
    With rule
    As to the other Prelats and the CuratsCurates, the ſame Author repreſents them to us after this manner. In theſe Times, ſays …

    Jean Claude · Historical Defense of the Reformation · p. 129 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … People, is the Voice of God. But, both we our selves, and also our CuratsCurates, are gross Intruders, like Hildebrands Hoggs, who being unyoked, break through hedges, and violently …
    With rule
    … People, is the Voice of God. But, both we our selves, and also our CuratsCurates, are gross Intruders, like Hildebrands Hoggs, who being unyoked, break through hedges, and violently …

    Thomas Ford · The Bishops Condemned out of their Own Mouths · p. 27 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … or openly, not being let by Sickneſs, or ſome other urgent cauſe, and though CuratsCurates be appointed being at home, and not otherwiſe reaſonably hindred, to ſay the Prayers …
    With rule
    … or openly, not being let by Sickneſs, or ſome other urgent cauſe, and though CuratsCurates be appointed being at home, and not otherwiſe reaſonably hindred, to ſay the Prayers …

    Henry Hickman · Castigations Given to John Durell · p. 127 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … whatever application it may have to that naughty Company of your insufficient and profane CuratsCurates, or Conformity to the Court; yea, the worlds prejudice against our Lord Jesus, his …
    With rule
    … whatever application it may have to that naughty Company of your insufficient and profane CuratsCurates, or Conformity to the Court; yea, the worlds prejudice against our Lord Jesus, his …

    Robert McWard · The True Non-Conformist · p. 161 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Prayer in the ſame Service may he limited. All cannot, moſt do not keep CuratsCurates; the work of Reading the ordinary firſt and ſecond Service, beſides incidental Offices, as …
    With rule
    … Prayer in the ſame Service may he limited. All cannot, moſt do not keep CuratsCurates; the work of Reading the ordinary firſt and ſecond Service, beſides incidental Offices, as …

    Edward Pearse · The Conformists Third Plea · p. viii · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … townes, or elſewhere, before their owne proper painefull Paſtor, and euen young new vpſtart CuratsCurates, before the graue and learned Rectours of the Church.
    With rule
    … townes, or elſewhere, before their owne proper painefull Paſtor, and euen young new vpſtart CuratsCurates, before the graue and learned Rectours of the Church.

    John Mayer · The English Catechism Explained · p. 310 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (18)

8 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 10 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Mild and Just Defense of Certain Arguments A16615

  • Printed
    … the Wolfe, yea, I knowe ſome that for ſake their owne charges, and are curatscurates elſe where under other. And to whome doe ſome of them leaue their owne …
    With rule
    … the Wolfe, yea, I knowe ſome that for ſake their owne charges, and are curatscurates elſe where under other. And to whome doe ſome of them leaue their owne …

    William Bradshaw · A Mild and Just Defense of Certain Arguments · p. 70 · Open in the reader

Relation of the Sufferings of Ministers in Scotland Since 1660 A29746

  • Printed
    How unlawfull it is, to owne & acknowledge the curatscurates fo… lawfull Ministers, by fourteen reasons: Foure objections answered.
    With rule
    How unlawfull it is, to owne & acknowledge the curatscurates fo… lawfull Ministers, by fourteen reasons: Foure objections answered.

    John Brown · Relation of the Sufferings of Ministers in Scotland Since 1660 · Open in the reader

Review and Examination of the Doctrine A39999

  • Printed
    … should be sent from the court? Let our court prelats mark this: And our curatscurates answere this quere. Now I hope our Informer will not alledge that the people …
    With rule
    … should be sent from the court? Let our court prelats mark this: And our curatscurates answere this quere. Now I hope our Informer will not alledge that the people …

    Thomas Forrester · Review and Examination of the Doctrine · p. 228 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Bishops in the higher seats] they were not then the prelats underlinges as our curatscurates are now; hence he concludes that the Bishop or priest who neglected this duety …
    With rule
    … Bishops in the higher seats] they were not then the prelats underlinges as our curatscurates are now; hence he concludes that the Bishop or priest who neglected this duety …

    Thomas Forrester · Review and Examination of the Doctrine · p. 238 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … posterity. But what memory shall the posterity have of this work if prelats and curatscurates be thus submitted unto? 6. We engadge opposition in our capacity to all prelatick malignant …
    With rule
    … posterity. But what memory shall the posterity have of this work if prelats and curatscurates be thus submitted unto? 6. We engadge opposition in our capacity to all prelatick malignant …

    Thomas Forrester · Review and Examination of the Doctrine · p. 14 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … be abolisht legall dispensation, is far from coming up to his conclusion of owning curatscurates in this our case. …. He answers, that Mr Durham speaks of a ministerial respect …
    With rule
    … be abolisht legall dispensation, is far from coming up to his conclusion of owning curatscurates in this our case. …. He answers, that Mr Durham speaks of a ministerial respect …

    Thomas Forrester · Review and Examination of the Doctrine · p. 95 · Open in the reader

A Hind Let Loose A59963

  • Printed
    … subjected to as the Ministers of Christ in His Church: But the Prelats & their curatscurates do receive & derive their Church Power from, & are subordinate in its exercise to, another …
    With rule
    … subjected to as the Ministers of Christ in His Church: But the Prelats & their curatscurates do receive & derive their Church Power from, & are subordinate in its exercise to, another …

    Alexander Shields · A Hind Let Loose · p. 242 · Open in the reader

The Wrestlings of the Church of Scotland A61639

  • Printed
    … and others, who had been intimate familiars and favourers of Prelats and their Vice-curatscurates, in Sickneſs and at Death did ſo much abhorre their way and loath their …
    With rule
    … and others, who had been intimate familiars and favourers of Prelats and their Vice-curatscurates, in Sickneſs and at Death did ſo much abhorre their way and loath their …

    James Stewart · The Wrestlings of the Church of Scotland · Open in the reader