Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #3827 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

toolestools

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

Puritas changed it: 388 times in 262 works
Consistency: 89.6% (388 of 433)
Reach if approved: ~455 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: tools
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 433 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (388 changes in 262 works, 89.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 388)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… For I am persuaded they cannot set them artificially inough without some kind of toolestools?
With rule
… For I am persuaded they cannot set them artificially inough without some kind of toolestools?
Philip Stubbes · The Anatomy of Abuses Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… without his ſword, or a ſcriuener without his penne, or a ſmith without his toolestools: ſo is a Chriſtian without prayer. What maruell is it if diuels which neuer …
With rule
… without his ſword, or a ſcriuener without his penne, or a ſmith without his toolestools: ſo is a Chriſtian without prayer. What maruell is it if diuels which neuer …
Francis Trigge · The True Catholic · p. 379 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to the heart, and therefore they suffer their children to play with these dull toolestools, though not to handle the two-edged Sword of Gods Word. 3. Romanists will never …
With rule
… to the heart, and therefore they suffer their children to play with these dull toolestools, though not to handle the two-edged Sword of Gods Word. 3. Romanists will never …
Thomas Fuller · Josephs Party-Colored Coat · p. 38 · Open in the reader
Printed
His working toolestools are suche vnsauerie sophismes, problemes, elēches, corolaries, quydities, subtylties, seconde intentions, intrincycall moods, wyth …
With rule
His working toolestools are suche vnsauerie sophismes, problemes, elēches, corolaries, quydities, subtylties, seconde intentions, intrincycall moods, wyth …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Lord (I ſay) command them to be as a Surgeons knife, or an Husbandmans toolestools, to cut them off, to root them out (like infectious members from the body …
With rule
… Lord (I ſay) command them to be as a Surgeons knife, or an Husbandmans toolestools, to cut them off, to root them out (like infectious members from the body …
Thomas Barnes · An Alarm to War · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of any of her powers, as a Craftsman continueth a Craftsman though he want toolestools to worke withal: And finally, that this Soule is a substance that continueth of …
With rule
… of any of her powers, as a Craftsman continueth a Craftsman though he want toolestools to worke withal: And finally, that this Soule is a substance that continueth of …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 286 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his shoppe? No. What is the cause of that? he vseth not onely his toolestools in his worke, but thereunto adioyneth his owne hand, by which he handleth and …
With rule
… his shoppe? No. What is the cause of that? he vseth not onely his toolestools in his worke, but thereunto adioyneth his owne hand, by which he handleth and …
William Perkins · Four Great Liars Striving · Open in the reader
Printed
Fiftly, Fooles are very deſperate, they are ſtill a medling Property. 5 with edge toolestools, and playing with kniues and fire-brands, and neuer reſt vntill they haue miſchieft …
With rule
Fiftly, Fooles are very deſperate, they are ſtill a medling Property. 5 with edge toolestools, and playing with kniues and fire-brands, and neuer reſt vntill they haue miſchieft …
Nehemiah Rogers · The True Convert · p. 31 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (45)

10 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 35 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Journal of the Beginning of the English Plantation at Plymouth A09810

Printed
… and then wrest it vp with leavers, for we had forgot to bring other ToolesTools; whilst we were in this imployment, foule weather being towards, Master Iones was earnest …
With rule
… and then wrest it vp with leavers, for we had forgot to bring other ToolesTools; whilst we were in this imployment, foule weather being towards, Master Iones was earnest …
William Bradford · Journal of the Beginning of the English Plantation at Plymouth · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
3. That if any of our ToolesTools were taken away when our people were at worke, he should cause them to …
With rule
3. That if any of our ToolesTools were taken away when our people were at worke, he should cause them to …
William Bradford · Journal of the Beginning of the English Plantation at Plymouth · p. 37 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

Printed
ToolesTools.
With rule
ToolesTools.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader
Printed
To take the ToolesTools of a poore handicrafts man to pawne, is an exceeding great crueltie.
With rule
To take the ToolesTools of a poore handicrafts man to pawne, is an exceeding great crueltie.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader

Commentary Upon Philemon A22481

Printed
… fire, and caſt a veſſell in the mould, & begun to hammer it with his ToolesTools, if he lay it aſide at night, the next day when he commeth to …
With rule
… fire, and caſt a veſſell in the mould, & begun to hammer it with his ToolesTools, if he lay it aſide at night, the next day when he commeth to …
William Attersoll · Commentary Upon Philemon · p. 130 · Open in the reader

Gods Providence A34527

Printed
… God is not like the Children of Men, who can do nothing without their ToolesTools; he can work above meanes, and he can work against meanes: sometimes he disableth …
With rule
… God is not like the Children of Men, who can do nothing without their ToolesTools; he can work above meanes, and he can work against meanes: sometimes he disableth …
Edward Corbet · Gods Providence · p. 24 · Open in the reader

The History of the Worthies of England A40672

Printed
… making himself merry with the Stake. But though it be ill Jesting with edged ToolesTools (whereof Death is the sharpest,) yet since our Saviour hath blounted it, his servants …
With rule
… making himself merry with the Stake. But though it be ill Jesting with edged ToolesTools (whereof Death is the sharpest,) yet since our Saviour hath blounted it, his servants …
Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 57 · Open in the reader

Gods Masterpiece A89567

Printed
… what Instruments doe you thinke the Lord doth build it? and what are their ToolesTools? who are his Work-men? you'll wonder by that time I have told you …
With rule
… what Instruments doe you thinke the Lord doth build it? and what are their ToolesTools? who are his Work-men? you'll wonder by that time I have told you …
Stephen Marshall · Gods Masterpiece · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… haſt thou ordained ſtrength, to quell the enemy and the avenger. And truely their ToolesTools wherewith they work are no more promiſing then the Work-men; The great Engine …
With rule
… haſt thou ordained ſtrength, to quell the enemy and the avenger. And truely their ToolesTools wherewith they work are no more promiſing then the Work-men; The great Engine …
Stephen Marshall · Gods Masterpiece · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Bread and drinking Wine in a Sacrament; Praying to God: ſuch kind of ToolesTools as theſe are, are the inſtruments wherewith theſe unlikely Work-men are furniſhed; far …
With rule
… of Bread and drinking Wine in a Sacrament; Praying to God: ſuch kind of ToolesTools as theſe are, are the inſtruments wherewith theſe unlikely Work-men are furniſhed; far …
Stephen Marshall · Gods Masterpiece · p. 18 · Open in the reader