Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #33968 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sherifesheriff

Two or more mechanical changes in one word: sinne → sin, vnderstande → understand.

Puritas changed it: 99 times in 9 works
Consistency: 75.5% (99 of 131)
Reach if approved: ~138 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sheriff
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 131 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (99 changes in 9 works, 75.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 99)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
1. Mar. cap. 8. No SherifeSheriff ſhall exerciſe the office of a Iuſtice of peace by force of commiſſion, or …
With rule
1. Mar. cap. 8. No SherifeSheriff ſhall exerciſe the office of a Iuſtice of peace by force of commiſſion, or …
Henry Finch · Law · p. 339 · Open in the reader
Printed
… common Pleas, then of a sentence of condemnation in the Court of heauen. The SherifeSheriff is altogether feared, not God: their is no dread of any Execution but his …
With rule
… common Pleas, then of a sentence of condemnation in the Court of heauen. The SherifeSheriff is altogether feared, not God: their is no dread of any Execution but his …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 264 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their authority, and are not to be obeyed, no more than a Conſtable or SherifeSheriff, &c. that goe beyond their office.
With rule
… their authority, and are not to be obeyed, no more than a Conſtable or SherifeSheriff, &c. that goe beyond their office.
William Gouge · Exposition on John 5 · p. 91 · Open in the reader
Printed
… person of her husband Master Bertye, for whom he sent an attachment to the SherifeSheriff of Lincolneshire, with a speciall letter, commaunding him most strictly to attach him, and …
With rule
… person of her husband Master Bertye, for whom he sent an attachment to the SherifeSheriff of Lincolneshire, with a speciall letter, commaunding him most strictly to attach him, and …
Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 123 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and twentieth of May, they were burned at Beckles by Sir Iohn Silliard high SherifeSheriff, without any writ from my Lord Chancellor. As the fire burned about them, they …
With rule
… and twentieth of May, they were burned at Beckles by Sir Iohn Silliard high SherifeSheriff, without any writ from my Lord Chancellor. As the fire burned about them, they …
John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 323 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and by all his ſubiects: ſo that in their whole circuit they haue the SherifeSheriff of the Shire, and all his men, with the reſt of the chiefe knights …
With rule
… and by all his ſubiects: ſo that in their whole circuit they haue the SherifeSheriff of the Shire, and all his men, with the reſt of the chiefe knights …
Nicholas Bownd · Medicines for the Plague · p. 279 · Open in the reader
Printed
… my much honoured and worthily beloued friend and kinsman Sir Anthonie Aucher Knight, high SherifeSheriff of Kent.
With rule
… my much honoured and worthily beloued friend and kinsman Sir Anthonie Aucher Knight, high SherifeSheriff of Kent.
John Boys · The Third Part from John Baptists Nativity · p. 147 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and yet he ſees not how he can Baile him; the other deſires the SherifeSheriff to be good to him, and yet he knowes he muſt doe his Office …
With rule
… and yet he ſees not how he can Baile him; the other deſires the SherifeSheriff to be good to him, and yet he knowes he muſt doe his Office …
John Donne · Eighty Sermons · p. 511 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (32)

25 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 are listed here. 7 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Law A00741

Printed
And therfore if the ſherifesheriff ſuffer a common recouerie, it is error, becauſe hee cannot ſummon himſelfe.
With rule
And therfore if the ſherifesheriff ſuffer a common recouerie, it is error, becauſe hee cannot ſummon himſelfe.
Henry Finch · Law · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
Vpon iuſt cauſe of exception to the ſherifesheriff, proceſſe out of the higher Courts ſhall be directed to the Coroners.
With rule
Vpon iuſt cauſe of exception to the ſherifesheriff, proceſſe out of the higher Courts ſhall be directed to the Coroners.
Henry Finch · Law · p. 244 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to the defendant, the writ De returno habendo ſhal haue this clauſe, (that the ſherifesheriff ſhall not deliuer them without writ, wherein mention ſhall be made of the iudgement …
With rule
… to the defendant, the writ De returno habendo ſhal haue this clauſe, (that the ſherifesheriff ſhall not deliuer them without writ, wherein mention ſhall be made of the iudgement …
Henry Finch · Law · p. 317 · Open in the reader
Printed
9 A writ De magna aſſiſa eligenda to the ſherifesheriff, to ſummon foure knights to chooſe the grand Aſſiſe, when the miſe is ioyned …
With rule
9 A writ De magna aſſiſa eligenda to the ſherifesheriff, to ſummon foure knights to chooſe the grand Aſſiſe, when the miſe is ioyned …
Henry Finch · Law · p. 449 · Open in the reader
Printed
… without writ, or in Court of Record. The ſame to be directed to the ſherifesheriff, if iudgement were giuen before the Baylife in the Hundred or Lords Court, to …
With rule
… without writ, or in Court of Record. The ſame to be directed to the ſherifesheriff, if iudgement were giuen before the Baylife in the Hundred or Lords Court, to …
Henry Finch · Law · p. 492 · Open in the reader