Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39791 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

spainesspain's

Apostrophes added or expanded, mostly possessives: gods → god's. Approve one at a time: some places are plurals.

Puritas changed it: 94 times in 53 works
Consistency: 97.9% (94 of 96)
Reach if approved: ~101 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: spain's
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 (94 changes in 53 works, 97.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 94)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… for the Navy shortly after returning, brought together with the Bride, the King of SpainesSpain's letters Patents for the setling of the Spa…sh Inquisition in the Belgick Provinces …
With rule
… for the Navy shortly after returning, brought together with the Bride, the King of SpainesSpain's letters Patents for the setling of the Spa…sh Inquisition in the Belgick Provinces …
Samuel Clarke · The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History · p. 857 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the performance of them, even by King Iames, King Charles, and the King of SpainesSpain's regall words, Seales, Oathes: That these Articles were to be confirmed by the Privie …
With rule
… the performance of them, even by King Iames, King Charles, and the King of SpainesSpain's regall words, Seales, Oathes: That these Articles were to be confirmed by the Privie …
William Prynne · The Popish Royal Favorite · p. 43 · Open in the reader
Printed
… refined: Rebellion at home extinguiſhed: France, neer ruin'd by inteſtine miſchiefes, relieved: Netherland ſupported: SpainesSpain's Armado vanquiſhed: Ireland with Spaniards expulſion and traitors correction quieted: Both Univerſities revenewes by …
With rule
… refined: Rebellion at home extinguiſhed: France, neer ruin'd by inteſtine miſchiefes, relieved: Netherland ſupported: SpainesSpain's Armado vanquiſhed: Ireland with Spaniards expulſion and traitors correction quieted: Both Univerſities revenewes by …
William Gouge · Mercys Memorial · p. 25 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and Signets, by publique Acts of State, as the Hollanders did the King of SpainesSpain's, when they caſt off his Government for his Tyranny (which they, and Popiſh Authors …
With rule
… and Signets, by publique Acts of State, as the Hollanders did the King of SpainesSpain's, when they caſt off his Government for his Tyranny (which they, and Popiſh Authors …
William Prynne · The Opening of the Great Seal of England · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
… when Henry 4. that late Great king of France, was told of the king of SpainesSpain's ample dominions: as first he is king of Castile, and I (quoth Henry) am …
With rule
… when Henry 4. that late Great king of France, was told of the king of SpainesSpain's ample dominions: as first he is king of Castile, and I (quoth Henry) am …
Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… if this biſhop (when hee is through your ſilence and at the king of SpainesSpain's purſuite growne to ſuch aucthority) doth renewe, as vndoubtedly he will: how many wofull …
With rule
… if this biſhop (when hee is through your ſilence and at the king of SpainesSpain's purſuite growne to ſuch aucthority) doth renewe, as vndoubtedly he will: how many wofull …
Phillips Marnix · An Exhortation Concerning the Estate of Christendom · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
… businesse, was to bleare his eyes, that hee should not see the growth of SpainesSpain's greatnesse in Germanie. This is Apostolicke simplicitie forsooth, or rather a too great simplicitie …
With rule
… businesse, was to bleare his eyes, that hee should not see the growth of SpainesSpain's greatnesse in Germanie. This is Apostolicke simplicitie forsooth, or rather a too great simplicitie …
William Struther · A Looking Glass for Princes and Peoples Delivered · p. 152 · Open in the reader
Printed
… world that vanquisheth all the wicked? Blesse God for this conquest. The King of SpainesSpain's overcomming the Indies was nothing to it. If Satan had knowne his afflicting of …
With rule
… world that vanquisheth all the wicked? Blesse God for this conquest. The King of SpainesSpain's overcomming the Indies was nothing to it. If Satan had knowne his afflicting of …
Richard Younge · The Victory of Patience · p. 12 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 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.