Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2647 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

bowesbows

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

Puritas changed it: 740 times in 427 works
Consistency: 99.3% (740 of 745)
Reach if approved: ~783 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: bows
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 745 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (740 changes in 427 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 740)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Nomore was captayne Cobler / that valeaūt George on horse backe with his Lyncolne shere bowesbows and baggepypes: yet are they not founde fytt to occupye a rome in this …
With rule
… Nomore was captayne Cobler / that valeaūt George on horse backe with his Lyncolne shere bowesbows and baggepypes: yet are they not founde fytt to occupye a rome in this …
John Bale · A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted · Open in the reader
Printed
… by the courſe of naturall thinges. Too much rancknes beateth downe the corne, and bowesbows are broken with the burden; ouermuch aboundaunce of fruite commeth not to anie ripeneſſe …
With rule
… by the courſe of naturall thinges. Too much rancknes beateth downe the corne, and bowesbows are broken with the burden; ouermuch aboundaunce of fruite commeth not to anie ripeneſſe …
Laurence Humphrey · A View of the Romish Hydra · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wyth wyſedome. As though he woulde ſaye, he ſhall not occupye harnas, ſweardes, gounes, bowesbows and ſpeares, but he ſhall beginne to make men righteous, after a newe and …
With rule
… wyth wyſedome. As though he woulde ſaye, he ſhall not occupye harnas, ſweardes, gounes, bowesbows and ſpeares, but he ſhall beginne to make men righteous, after a newe and …
Martin Luther · Exposition of Jeremiah 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
Ye saye trueth. If men dyd knowe the significaciō of those bowesbows, which they beare in theyr hādes at y^t tyme, they would not so supersticiously …
With rule
Ye saye trueth. If men dyd knowe the significaciō of those bowesbows, which they beare in theyr hādes at y^t tyme, they would not so supersticiously …
Thomas Becon · A Potion for This Holy Time of Lent · Open in the reader
Printed
… every where / but in his Familie) that they make there many swords, halberds, spears, bowesbows & arrows, guns, pellets, powder, armor or harnesse &c. for that the tyrannical oppressors and …
With rule
… every where / but in his Familie) that they make there many swords, halberds, spears, bowesbows & arrows, guns, pellets, powder, armor or harnesse &c. for that the tyrannical oppressors and …
Henry Ainsworth · An Epistle Unto Two Daughters of Warwick · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to be set up against a tree, and commaunded the three sonnes to take bowesbows and arrowes, and to, shoote against their father and to see who could come …
With rule
… to be set up against a tree, and commaunded the three sonnes to take bowesbows and arrowes, and to, shoote against their father and to see who could come …
William Perkins · The Government of the Tongue · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the mark, and offers to shoote further then he looks, but euer fals two bowesbows short, humilitie and discretion.
With rule
… the mark, and offers to shoote further then he looks, but euer fals two bowesbows short, humilitie and discretion.
Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
… remoued, and swallowed vp in the sea; yet he suddenly stilleth all; breaketh their bowesbows, knappeth their speares a sunder, and burneth vp their chariots, and by a generall …
With rule
… remoued, and swallowed vp in the sea; yet he suddenly stilleth all; breaketh their bowesbows, knappeth their speares a sunder, and burneth vp their chariots, and by a generall …
Thomas Gataker · Two Sermons for the Direction for Christian Carriage · p. 46 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Journals of Parliaments A35827

Printed
Revised and Published By PAUL BOWESBOWS, of the MIDDLE-TEMPLE LONDON, Esq
With rule
Revised and Published By PAUL BOWESBOWS, of the MIDDLE-TEMPLE LONDON, Esq
Simonds D Ewes · The Journals of Parliaments · Open in the reader
Printed
Your most Obliged Humble Servant, PAUL BOWESBOWS.
With rule
Your most Obliged Humble Servant, PAUL BOWESBOWS.
Simonds D Ewes · The Journals of Parliaments · Open in the reader

The History of the Worthies of England A40672

Printed
4 GEORGE BOWESBOWS, Mil.]
With rule
4 GEORGE BOWESBOWS, Mil.]
Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 223 · Open in the reader