Waiting for reviewi / jCandidate #26853 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

iackjack

i standing for j: Iesus → Jesus, iudge → judge.

Puritas changed it: 90 times in 55 works
Consistency: 95.7% (90 of 94)
Reach if approved: ~101 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: jack
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 96 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (90 changes in 55 works, 95.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 90)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Reigne, and all indictments made by Duresse, through the Rebellion, Tyranny, and Menaces of IackJack Cade and his rebellious rout of Traytors) and by 39. H. 6. c. 1. 15. E. 3. stat. 2. and …
With rule
… Reigne, and all indictments made by Duresse, through the Rebellion, Tyranny, and Menaces of IackJack Cade and his rebellious rout of Traytors) and by 39. H. 6. c. 1. 15. E. 3. stat. 2. and …
William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · p. 85 · Open in the reader
Printed
And mumme (good IackJack) and catch the Mouse.
With rule
And mumme (good IackJack) and catch the Mouse.
Robert Wild · The Incomparable Poem · p. 7 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Crown, might be encouraged, as well as Jack Cade? But the name of IackJack Cade he thinks may ſerve for a ſtumbling block to a blind Reader, whereas …
With rule
… the Crown, might be encouraged, as well as Jack Cade? But the name of IackJack Cade he thinks may ſerve for a ſtumbling block to a blind Reader, whereas …
Antony Ascham · A Combat Between Two Seconds · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of crosses / behynde and before and wythe reuerence on the very arses ād (as IackJack off napis whē he claweth him selfe) ploucke vp theyr legges ād crosse so …
With rule
… of crosses / behynde and before and wythe reuerence on the very arses ād (as IackJack off napis whē he claweth him selfe) ploucke vp theyr legges ād crosse so …
William Tyndale · Answer to Thomas More · Open in the reader
Printed
… or Wat Tiler, IackJack Miller, Iacke Carter, againſt King Richard the ſecond, and alſo IackJack Cade of Kent, who was in a cart brought to London, taken before in …
With rule
… or Wat Tiler, IackJack Miller, Iacke Carter, againſt King Richard the ſecond, and alſo IackJack Cade of Kent, who was in a cart brought to London, taken before in …
Laurence Humphrey · A View of the Romish Hydra · p. 117 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as were received in the Primitiue Church; & to convince the Antichristian enemy, who like IackJack Bragger boasteth of antiquity, when in comparison of Gods booke, his beliefe is nothing …
With rule
… as were received in the Primitiue Church; & to convince the Antichristian enemy, who like IackJack Bragger boasteth of antiquity, when in comparison of Gods booke, his beliefe is nothing …
Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 418 · Open in the reader
Printed
This year happened the barbarous Rebellion of IackJack Cade in Kent. This Sheriff, unable with the posse Comitatus, to resist their numerousness …
With rule
This year happened the barbarous Rebellion of IackJack Cade in Kent. This Sheriff, unable with the posse Comitatus, to resist their numerousness …
Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 95 · Open in the reader
Printed
… unto any Articles of their Religion, as unto that of the real presence. D. IackJack. Epist. to the Read.
With rule
… unto any Articles of their Religion, as unto that of the real presence. D. IackJack. Epist. to the Read.
Edward Leigh · Body of Divinity · p. 695 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

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

Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 A67927

Printed
… other waye. But the more the Gentleman entreated, the more fierce was the sely iackjack vpon him: and drawing and holding him by the arme, woold needes hale him …
With rule
… other waye. But the more the Gentleman entreated, the more fierce was the sely iackjack vpon him: and drawing and holding him by the arme, woold needes hale him …
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 2027 · Open in the reader