Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50283 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

independantsIndependents

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

Puritas changed it: 245 times in 114 works
Consistency: 98.3% (245 of 249)
Reach if approved: ~263 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: independents
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 250 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (245 changes in 114 works, 98.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 245)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Parochial Church, and enjoy a Living, to be willing to have his Brethren the IndependantsIndependents given up to perſecution: And it becomes not the Separatiſt, if he may but …
With rule
… Parochial Church, and enjoy a Living, to be willing to have his Brethren the IndependantsIndependents given up to perſecution: And it becomes not the Separatiſt, if he may but …
John Humfrey · Answer to Dr Stillingfleets Sermon · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Church of England receives no Member into their Communion without Baptiſm, neither do Presbyterians, IndependantsIndependents, nor indeed any ſort of Chriſtians that own Ordinances, admit any as a Church …
With rule
… Church of England receives no Member into their Communion without Baptiſm, neither do Presbyterians, IndependantsIndependents, nor indeed any ſort of Chriſtians that own Ordinances, admit any as a Church …
William Kiffin · Discourse of Right to Church-Communion · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Men may see that the jus divinum, being in this matter our rule, the IndependantsIndependents have not the better of us, as you groundlesly give out.
With rule
… Men may see that the jus divinum, being in this matter our rule, the IndependantsIndependents have not the better of us, as you groundlesly give out.
Robert McWard · The True Non-Conformist · p. 107 · Open in the reader
Printed
… heartily wish, that instead of our large mixt Nationall Covenant; and instead of the IndependantsIndependents Politicall Church-making Covenant, we had the Gospel or New Covenant conditions formally in …
With rule
… heartily wish, that instead of our large mixt Nationall Covenant; and instead of the IndependantsIndependents Politicall Church-making Covenant, we had the Gospel or New Covenant conditions formally in …
Richard Baxter · Aphorisms of Justification · p. 281 · Open in the reader
Printed
5. How far they crept into all Societies under the name of IndependantsIndependents, is opened by ſo many already in Print, that I ſhall add no more …
With rule
5. How far they crept into all Societies under the name of IndependantsIndependents, is opened by ſo many already in Print, that I ſhall add no more …
Richard Baxter · A Key for Catholics · p. 329 · Open in the reader
Printed
… If this will not ſatisfie you, I have proved before (and oft to ſome IndependantsIndependents) that many men are under no obligation to be fixed Members of any Pariſh …
With rule
… If this will not ſatisfie you, I have proved before (and oft to ſome IndependantsIndependents) that many men are under no obligation to be fixed Members of any Pariſh …
Richard Baxter · A Second True Defense of the Nonconformists · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
… done it with a poſſibility of excluſion of all thoſe Anabaptiſts, and of the IndependantsIndependents; and now you have put it into the way, that if a man be …
With rule
… done it with a poſſibility of excluſion of all thoſe Anabaptiſts, and of the IndependantsIndependents; and now you have put it into the way, that if a man be …
Nathaniel Fiennes · Treasons Masterpiece · p. 104 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and disgraced all the Conscientious contenders for it and friends of it whether Presbiterians, IndependantsIndependents, Anabaptists, &c. as giddy foolish sectaryes, and sinful separatists then your self? nay, who …
With rule
… and disgraced all the Conscientious contenders for it and friends of it whether Presbiterians, IndependantsIndependents, Anabaptists, &c. as giddy foolish sectaryes, and sinful separatists then your self? nay, who …
Henry Danvers · Second Reply to Baxter · p. 264 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.