Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2428 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

bankesbanks

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

Puritas changed it: 432 times in 276 works
Consistency: 99.5% (432 of 434)
Reach if approved: ~456 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: banks
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 434 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (432 changes in 276 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 432)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Makyng a rode, where bankesbanks on euery ſyde,
With rule
Makyng a rode, where bankesbanks on euery ſyde,
Petrus Ramus · The Logic Newly Translated · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… honeſter of the two / then Oueries and his wife / becauſe they dwel O the bankesbanks ſide. But good Tom tubtrimmer / tell me what you meane by the chiefe of …
With rule
… honeſter of the two / then Oueries and his wife / becauſe they dwel O the bankesbanks ſide. But good Tom tubtrimmer / tell me what you meane by the chiefe of …
Martin Marprelate · Work for a Cooper 2 · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… land, as it did in the first creation, were it not withheld within his bankesbanks by diuine power? whether the deepenes of the Sea, doth exceede the height of …
With rule
… land, as it did in the first creation, were it not withheld within his bankesbanks by diuine power? whether the deepenes of the Sea, doth exceede the height of …
William Pemble · A Brief Introduction to Geography · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… upon the shoare; so all generations and ages in the end, are split on bankesbanks of death, and this is the condition of every man? Is it not our …
With rule
… upon the shoare; so all generations and ages in the end, are split on bankesbanks of death, and this is the condition of every man? Is it not our …
John Preston · The Saints Qualification · p. 56 · Open in the reader
Printed
… or restraint, but it breaketh all bonds, and like a raging sea overrunneth the bankesbanks. They declare their sinne as Sodome, saith the Prophet, and hide it not: woe …
With rule
… or restraint, but it breaketh all bonds, and like a raging sea overrunneth the bankesbanks. They declare their sinne as Sodome, saith the Prophet, and hide it not: woe …
Edward Reynolds · Explication of Psalm 110 · p. 504 · Open in the reader
Printed
… It is recorded of Iordan that even in harvest he over-flowed all his bankesbanks: so is it with those waters of the true Israell of God, they flow …
With rule
… It is recorded of Iordan that even in harvest he over-flowed all his bankesbanks: so is it with those waters of the true Israell of God, they flow …
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 135 · Open in the reader
Printed
Thus farre have we march'd by the bankesbanks of Nile,
With rule
Thus farre have we march'd by the bankesbanks of Nile,
William Gouge · The Saints Sacrifice · Open in the reader
Printed
… and flowes perpetually: ſometimes (at a Springtyde) it ſwels to that bigneſſe, that the bankesbanks cannot containe it; ſometimes againe, it falles backe ſo low, that a man muſt …
With rule
… and flowes perpetually: ſometimes (at a Springtyde) it ſwels to that bigneſſe, that the bankesbanks cannot containe it; ſometimes againe, it falles backe ſo low, that a man muſt …
Samuel Hieron · The Spiritual Fishing · p. 2 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 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.

The Souls Conflict With Itself A12198

Printed
Sir IOHN BANKESBANKS Knight, the Kings Majesties Attourney Generall,
With rule
Sir IOHN BANKESBANKS Knight, the Kings Majesties Attourney Generall,
Richard Sibbes · The Souls Conflict With Itself · Open in the reader