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hovedenHowden

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it
360 times in 71 works
Consistency
99.4% (360 of 362)
Reach if approved
~380 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
362 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (360 changes in 71 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 360)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Nigell Worker, Gilbert Holland, Benet de Peterborough… William Parvus a Monke of Newburgh, Roger HovedenHowden, Hubert Walter, Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, Alexander Theologus, Gervasius Tilberiensis, Gyraldus Cambrensis, Iohannes Devonius …
    With rule
    … Nigell Worker, Gilbert Holland, Benet de Peterborough… William Parvus a Monke of Newburgh, Roger HovedenHowden, Hubert Walter, Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, Alexander Theologus, Gervasius Tilberiensis, Gyraldus Cambrensis, Iohannes Devonius …

    Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 104 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    6. HovedenHowden.
    With rule
    6. HovedenHowden.

    Thomas Fuller · The Appeal of Injured Innocence · p. 72 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … bad expreſſion of theſe Writers, to define this fight, whether by Sea or Land; HovedenHowden terms it a Sea fight. Nevertheleſs with 50 Ships (Aſſer and others add 300) they enterd …
    With rule
    … bad expreſſion of theſe Writers, to define this fight, whether by Sea or Land; HovedenHowden terms it a Sea fight. Nevertheleſs with 50 Ships (Aſſer and others add 300) they enterd …

    John Milton · The History of Britain · p. 192 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    Florentius Wigorniensis, Roger de HovedenHowden, Simeou Dunelmensis, Radulphus de Diceto, Mr. Fox, and others relate, That the innocent Princes …
    With rule
    Florentius Wigorniensis, Roger de HovedenHowden, Simeou Dunelmensis, Radulphus de Diceto, Mr. Fox, and others relate, That the innocent Princes …

    William Prynne · The Exact Recorder · p. 249 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Agilmarus, Bishop of the East Angles, and several others, without any evident Reason, saith HovedenHowden, but only to make way for the Normans: This was in Concilio Magno, saith …
    With rule
    … Agilmarus, Bishop of the East Angles, and several others, without any evident Reason, saith HovedenHowden, but only to make way for the Normans: This was in Concilio Magno, saith …

    Edward Stillingfleet · Concerning the Illegality of the Ecclesiastical Commission · p. 16 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … notjudge of Tythes, or Churches, nor bring Clergymen to examination at their Barr! Rog HovedenHowden H. 2. p. 285. And the same Prelate of Canterbury Epist. ad suffragan. absolveth all Bishops …
    With rule
    … notjudge of Tythes, or Churches, nor bring Clergymen to examination at their Barr! Rog HovedenHowden H. 2. p. 285. And the same Prelate of Canterbury Epist. ad suffragan. absolveth all Bishops …

    Richard Baxter · A Holy Commonwealth · p. 359 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Harde Cnute, and that Earl Godwin ſhould be their Captain in military affairs. Roger HovedenHowden, and others record, That Harold being elected King by the conſent of the major …
    With rule
    … Harde Cnute, and that Earl Godwin ſhould be their Captain in military affairs. Roger HovedenHowden, and others record, That Harold being elected King by the conſent of the major …

    William Prynne · Vindication of Fundamental Rights and Governments of English Freemen · p. 246 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … his heyres to bee their KINGS and Lords for ever. At Waterford (saith Roger HovedenHowden) all the Archbishops, Bishops, and Abbots of Ireland came unto the King of England …
    With rule
    … his heyres to bee their KINGS and Lords for ever. At Waterford (saith Roger HovedenHowden) all the Archbishops, Bishops, and Abbots of Ireland came unto the King of England …

    James Ussher · The Religion Anciently Professed by the Irish and British · p. 123 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The History of the Holy War A01342

  • Printed
    Rog. HOVEDENHOWDEN; Francofurti, 1601 in fol.
    With rule
    Rog. HOVEDENHOWDEN; Francofurti, 1601 in fol.

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Holy War · Open in the reader

The History of the Worthies of England A40672

  • Printed
    ROGER HOVEDENHOWDEN was born in this County, of the Illustrious Family of the Hovedens, saith my …
    With rule
    ROGER HOVEDENHOWDEN was born in this County, of the Illustrious Family of the Hovedens, saith my …

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 206 · Open in the reader