Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2450 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

fowlesfowls

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

Puritas changed it: 1,354 times in 567 works
Consistency: 99.7% (1,354 of 1,357)
Reach if approved: ~1,427 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: fowls
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,358 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,354 changes in 567 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,354)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and proviſion of it both; all the moveables. (So Pſal. 50. 11, 12.) The cattell and the fowlesfowls upon a thouſand hills are mine, ſayes hee; and alſo all the ſtanding goods …
With rule
… and proviſion of it both; all the moveables. (So Pſal. 50. 11, 12.) The cattell and the fowlesfowls upon a thouſand hills are mine, ſayes hee; and alſo all the ſtanding goods …
Thomas Goodwin · Aggravation of Sin · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and enemie of his seruants, who seeketh not to giue their bodies to the fowlesfowls of the ayre, but their precious soules to the hell-crowes of sinne, and …
With rule
… and enemie of his seruants, who seeketh not to giue their bodies to the fowlesfowls of the ayre, but their precious soules to the hell-crowes of sinne, and …
William Guild · A Young Mans Inquisition · p. 230 · Open in the reader
Printed
… The dead bodies of thy ſeruants haue they giuen to bee meate vnto the fowlesfowls of heauen, and the fleſh of thy Saints vnto the beaſts of the earth …
With rule
… The dead bodies of thy ſeruants haue they giuen to bee meate vnto the fowlesfowls of heauen, and the fleſh of thy Saints vnto the beaſts of the earth …
Robert Hill · The Pathway to Prayer and Piety · p. 185 · Open in the reader
Printed
… dore of euery creature in the earth: mountaines, green things, wells, ſeas, floods, whales; fowlesfowls, beaſts, particularly ſummoning men: more particularly Iſrael: among them the Lords Prieſts and ſeruants …
With rule
… dore of euery creature in the earth: mountaines, green things, wells, ſeas, floods, whales; fowlesfowls, beaſts, particularly ſummoning men: more particularly Iſrael: among them the Lords Prieſts and ſeruants …
William Hubbock · Great Britains Resurrection · Open in the reader
Printed
… God made a couenant with him, Genesis. 15. Diuides and diuides not his beasts and fowlesfowls, iust as God commands, Leu. 1.6.17. and so of the rest. Fathers could teach their …
With rule
… God made a couenant with him, Genesis. 15. Diuides and diuides not his beasts and fowlesfowls, iust as God commands, Leu. 1.6.17. and so of the rest. Fathers could teach their …
John Lightfoot · Miscellanies Christian and Judaical · p. 186 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Not a Sparrow falls to the ground but by his will. He feeds the fowlesfowls of the arre, and cloathes the flowers of the field. How can we then …
With rule
… Not a Sparrow falls to the ground but by his will. He feeds the fowlesfowls of the arre, and cloathes the flowers of the field. How can we then …
Samuel Balmford · The Right Way to Go to Work · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to such grounds, as are either stony, and resist it; or haunted with ravenous fowlesfowls which devoure it, or over-runne with thornes and briars which choake it. And …
With rule
… to such grounds, as are either stony, and resist it; or haunted with ravenous fowlesfowls which devoure it, or over-runne with thornes and briars which choake it. And …
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 191 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is not Caro consolidata; and sure there is a time, before which Beasts and FowlesFowls are not sollid, fast, and lawfull to bee eaten. I must confesse, wee are …
With rule
… is not Caro consolidata; and sure there is a time, before which Beasts and FowlesFowls are not sollid, fast, and lawfull to bee eaten. I must confesse, wee are …
Thomas Fuller · Josephs Party-Colored Coat · p. 145 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

3 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
… yet your heavenly Father feedeth them: ARE NOT YEE MVCH BETTER THEN THEY? THEN FOWLESFOWLS? And Luke 12. 6. 7. Mat. 10. 29. 30. 31. Are not two sparrowes sold for a farthing? and not one …
With rule
… yet your heavenly Father feedeth them: ARE NOT YEE MVCH BETTER THEN THEY? THEN FOWLESFOWLS? And Luke 12. 6. 7. Mat. 10. 29. 30. 31. Are not two sparrowes sold for a farthing? and not one …
William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · p. 17 · Open in the reader

Suspension Suspended A91293

Printed
… Levit. 20. 25, 26. Ye ſhall therefore PUT DIFFERENCE between CLEAN AND UNCLEAN BEASTS, and between UNCLEANE FOWLESFOWLS AND CLEANE, &c. And ye ſhall be holy unto me, for I the Lord …
With rule
… Levit. 20. 25, 26. Ye ſhall therefore PUT DIFFERENCE between CLEAN AND UNCLEAN BEASTS, and between UNCLEANE FOWLESFOWLS AND CLEANE, &c. And ye ſhall be holy unto me, for I the Lord …
William Prynne · Suspension Suspended · p. 38 · Open in the reader

The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms Part 3 A91298

Printed
… yet your heavenly Father feedeth them: ARE NOT YEE MVCH BETTER THEN THEY? THEN FOWLESFOWLS? And Luke 12. 6. 7. Mat. 10. 29. 30. 31. Are not two ſparrowes ſold for a farthing? and not one …
With rule
… yet your heavenly Father feedeth them: ARE NOT YEE MVCH BETTER THEN THEY? THEN FOWLESFOWLS? And Luke 12. 6. 7. Mat. 10. 29. 30. 31. Are not two ſparrowes ſold for a farthing? and not one …
William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms Part 3 · p. 17 · Open in the reader