Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #40156 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

fairfaxesfairfax's

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

Puritas changed it: 52 times in 4 works
Consistency: 100% (52 of 52)
Reach if approved: ~55 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 52 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (52 changes in 4 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 52)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… proportion: as for Draughts and Provisions we have said enough before: but Sir Thomas FairfaxesFairfax's Army, when joyned with Cromwell, Rosseter, and when Vermuden not finding the Scots Army …
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… proportion: as for Draughts and Provisions we have said enough before: but Sir Thomas FairfaxesFairfax's Army, when joyned with Cromwell, Rosseter, and when Vermuden not finding the Scots Army …
Edward Bowles · Manifest Truth · p. 44 · Open in the reader
Printed
The matchleſſe Family of the FairfaxesFairfax's in Barford, two miles from Warwick, wherein there are four Generations, and three of …
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The matchleſſe Family of the FairfaxesFairfax's in Barford, two miles from Warwick, wherein there are four Generations, and three of …
Edward Leigh · England Described · Open in the reader
Printed
In the happy Conjunction of the Lord FairfaxesFairfax's Forces, with his moſt valiant and virtuous Son, Sir Thomas Fairfax, whereby their eminent …
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In the happy Conjunction of the Lord FairfaxesFairfax's Forces, with his moſt valiant and virtuous Son, Sir Thomas Fairfax, whereby their eminent …
John Vicars · Gods Ark Overtopping the Worlds Waves · p. 214 · Open in the reader
Printed
… them by valiant Maſſie as aforeſaid, on the day before. Now, when as Generall FairfaxesFairfax's forlornes marched nigh the Enemy (they having divided themſelves on the hill, on which …
With rule
… them by valiant Maſſie as aforeſaid, on the day before. Now, when as Generall FairfaxesFairfax's forlornes marched nigh the Enemy (they having divided themſelves on the hill, on which …
John Vicars · Englands Parliamentary Chronicle · p. 191 · Open in the reader
Printed
… pursuit. The lot of the body of Foot, especially of Scots and my Lord FairfaxesFairfax's, was so promiscuous, some standing, some flying, that I can give no perfect accompt …
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… pursuit. The lot of the body of Foot, especially of Scots and my Lord FairfaxesFairfax's, was so promiscuous, some standing, some flying, that I can give no perfect accompt …
Edward Bowles · Manifest Truth · p. 7 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in Warwickſhire, and Rector of Barford, a memorable obſervation concerning the Family of the FairfaxesFairfax's there, the like whereto is ſcarce to be found in any ſacred or prophane …
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… in Warwickſhire, and Rector of Barford, a memorable obſervation concerning the Family of the FairfaxesFairfax's there, the like whereto is ſcarce to be found in any ſacred or prophane …
Edward Leigh · England Described · Open in the reader
Printed
… or there interlace ſome few materiall circumſtances, extracted out of the moſt noble Lord FairfaxesFairfax's Letter, ſent alſo about the ſame time to the ſaid M^r. Speaker of the …
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… or there interlace ſome few materiall circumſtances, extracted out of the moſt noble Lord FairfaxesFairfax's Letter, ſent alſo about the ſame time to the ſaid M^r. Speaker of the …
John Vicars · Gods Ark Overtopping the Worlds Waves · p. 38 · Open in the reader
Printed
… comming up to Theſe Preſent Times, and to our moſt renowned Generall, Sir Thomas FairfaxesFairfax's late famous Actions, in the Weſt, and the happy (becauſe unbloody) rendition of Oxford …
With rule
… comming up to Theſe Preſent Times, and to our moſt renowned Generall, Sir Thomas FairfaxesFairfax's late famous Actions, in the Weſt, and the happy (becauſe unbloody) rendition of Oxford …
John Vicars · Englands Parliamentary Chronicle · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.