Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50205 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

abbiesAbbeys

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

Puritas changed it: 318 times in 157 works
Consistency: 98.4% (318 of 323)
Reach if approved: ~339 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: abbeys
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 323 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (318 changes in 157 works, 98.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 318)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… King Henry the eight of noble memorie, found and ſaw in putting downe of AbbiesAbbeys, hee would eaſily in this point beleeue the papiſt Krantius, where hee ſaith: That …
With rule
… King Henry the eight of noble memorie, found and ſaw in putting downe of AbbiesAbbeys, hee would eaſily in this point beleeue the papiſt Krantius, where hee ſaith: That …
Josias Nichols · Abrahams Faith · p. 293 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and is worse then an infidell. 1. Tim. 5. Therefore before the statute of suppression of AbbiesAbbeys, those that were not meerely Ecclesiasticall persons, yet if they were mixt, or had …
With rule
… and is worse then an infidell. 1. Tim. 5. Therefore before the statute of suppression of AbbiesAbbeys, those that were not meerely Ecclesiasticall persons, yet if they were mixt, or had …
Benjamin Rudyerd · Speech in Behalf of the Clergy · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… cannot bee denied, but many such there were who helped to pull downe the AbbiesAbbeys; not out of any hatred to those vncleane cages, but to reare their owne …
With rule
… cannot bee denied, but many such there were who helped to pull downe the AbbiesAbbeys; not out of any hatred to those vncleane cages, but to reare their owne …
Samuel Ward · A Coal from the Altar to Kindle the Holy Fire of Zeal · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Blacke Monkes and others. Whilſt that I dyd thus take pleaſure in viſiting Fryeties & AbbiesAbbeys, Nunneries & ſuch other deuout places: it pleaſed God to touch my hard hart, and …
With rule
… Blacke Monkes and others. Whilſt that I dyd thus take pleaſure in viſiting Fryeties & AbbiesAbbeys, Nunneries & ſuch other deuout places: it pleaſed God to touch my hard hart, and …
Robert Crowley · Friar John Francis of France · Open in the reader
Printed
… thirteen Arch-biſhops, an hundred and four Biſhops, a thouſand four hundred and fifty AbbiesAbbeys, five hundred and forty Archpriories: twelve thouſand three hundred and twenty Priories, five hundred …
With rule
… thirteen Arch-biſhops, an hundred and four Biſhops, a thouſand four hundred and fifty AbbiesAbbeys, five hundred and forty Archpriories: twelve thouſand three hundred and twenty Priories, five hundred …
Richard Baxter · A Key for Catholics · p. 204 · Open in the reader
Printed
613 Henry the eight, breaking the necks of al AbbiesAbbeys in England, scattered abroad their very bones, past possibility of all recovering them.
With rule
613 Henry the eight, breaking the necks of al AbbiesAbbeys in England, scattered abroad their very bones, past possibility of all recovering them.
Samuel Clarke · The Saints Nosegay · p. 220 · Open in the reader
Printed
… why removed from small Towns to great Cities, b. 3. ¶. 21. Five (on the destruction of AbbiesAbbeys) erected by King Henry the eighth, b. 6. p. 338. ¶. 3.
With rule
… why removed from small Towns to great Cities, b. 3. ¶. 21. Five (on the destruction of AbbiesAbbeys) erected by King Henry the eighth, b. 6. p. 338. ¶. 3.
Thomas Fuller · The Appeal of Injured Innocence · Open in the reader
Printed
… erected. But is there any man so ignorant of the time of suppression of AbbiesAbbeys, that he would thinke all learning was in friers and other papistes? Where I …
With rule
… erected. But is there any man so ignorant of the time of suppression of AbbiesAbbeys, that he would thinke all learning was in friers and other papistes? Where I …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 324 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

3 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.

Rejoinder to Bristows Reply A01324

Printed
… liuings, Abats and Monkes for good pensions receiued this doctrine and gaue vp their abbiesAbbeys to the Prince. But this good hath Luther done, that he separated the good …
With rule
… liuings, Abats and Monkes for good pensions receiued this doctrine and gaue vp their abbiesAbbeys to the Prince. But this good hath Luther done, that he separated the good …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 402 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

Printed
… months after; a prince very zealous in his superstition, who besides building diuers churches, abbiesAbbeys, colledges, & cells, allowed pensions to all such as could in the church say the …
With rule
… months after; a prince very zealous in his superstition, who besides building diuers churches, abbiesAbbeys, colledges, & cells, allowed pensions to all such as could in the church say the …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 234 · Open in the reader

Vindication of Ecclesiastical Volume 3 A70866

Printed
ABbiesAbbeys tranſlated to Biſhops Sees by our Kings prerogative. p. 2.
With rule
ABbiesAbbeys tranſlated to Biſhops Sees by our Kings prerogative. p. 2.
William Prynne · Vindication of Ecclesiastical Volume 3 · Open in the reader