Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50288 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

chancelloursChancellors

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

Puritas changed it: 246 times in 111 works
Consistency: 97.2% (246 of 253)
Reach if approved: ~266 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: chancellors
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 253 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (246 changes in 111 works, 97.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 246)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the flesh. If they are uncharitable against all that are not for Diocesans, Lay-ChancelloursChancellors Excommunications, Symbolical Crossing of Children as a Covenanting sign of Christianity, and all the …
With rule
… the flesh. If they are uncharitable against all that are not for Diocesans, Lay-ChancelloursChancellors Excommunications, Symbolical Crossing of Children as a Covenanting sign of Christianity, and all the …
Richard Baxter · Cain and Abel Malignity · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… or People, that ſay that it is againſt Gods word for Lay Civilians or ChancelloursChancellors to govern by the Church Keyes, excommunicate or abſolve: And all that think it …
With rule
… or People, that ſay that it is againſt Gods word for Lay Civilians or ChancelloursChancellors to govern by the Church Keyes, excommunicate or abſolve: And all that think it …
Richard Baxter · Schism Detected in Both Extremes · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
That their ChancelloursChancellors be removed from them, and their overſwa…ing waſterfulneſſe in their Courts be taken …
With rule
That their ChancelloursChancellors be removed from them, and their overſwa…ing waſterfulneſſe in their Courts be taken …
Richard Bernard · A Short View of the Prelatical Church of England 2 · p. 7 · Open in the reader
Printed
… pag. 32. Sect. 10.) cites concil. Hispall. 2. Cyprian Epist. 28. against this deputation of prelats power to ChancelloursChancellors, Commissaries &c. and Brings in Bishop Dounham aknowledging (Defens. Lib. 1.) that in Ambrose time …
With rule
… pag. 32. Sect. 10.) cites concil. Hispall. 2. Cyprian Epist. 28. against this deputation of prelats power to ChancelloursChancellors, Commissaries &c. and Brings in Bishop Dounham aknowledging (Defens. Lib. 1.) that in Ambrose time …
Thomas Forrester · Review and Examination of the Doctrine · p. 132 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Cenſure of Excommunication may not be denounced or executed for ſmall matters, nor by ChancelloursChancellors, Commiſſaries, or Officials, but by the Biſhops themſelves, with the aſsiſtance of ſome grave …
With rule
… Cenſure of Excommunication may not be denounced or executed for ſmall matters, nor by ChancelloursChancellors, Commiſſaries, or Officials, but by the Biſhops themſelves, with the aſsiſtance of ſome grave …
John Norton · Apology for Non-Conformists · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… making the Church of God a cypher; a Hangby wanting an honest heart, like ChancelloursChancellors and Officials captivating of the Church; either marked servants of the Pope, or such …
With rule
… making the Church of God a cypher; a Hangby wanting an honest heart, like ChancelloursChancellors and Officials captivating of the Church; either marked servants of the Pope, or such …
Ephraim Pagitt · Heresiography · p. 70 · Open in the reader
Printed
The Answers of the Lords Bishops and ChancelloursChancellors that are now present, to the Articles of grievance lately by your Lordships imparted …
With rule
The Answers of the Lords Bishops and ChancelloursChancellors that are now present, to the Articles of grievance lately by your Lordships imparted …
William Prynne · Hidden Works of Darkness Brought to Public Light · p. 104 · Open in the reader
Printed
… you; commending your Errours to your owne castigation, and your selfe to Mr. Vice-ChancelloursChancellors better instruction: and so I rest
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… you; commending your Errours to your owne castigation, and your selfe to Mr. Vice-ChancelloursChancellors better instruction: and so I rest
William Prynne · Lame Giles Halting · p. 14 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The History of the Worthies of England A40672

Printed
Lord CHANCELLOURSCHANCELLORS.
With rule
Lord CHANCELLOURSCHANCELLORS.
Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 16 · Open in the reader

The True Dissenter B26109

Printed
… whom they might, and whom they might not Excommunicate, and for this reason Lay-chancelloursChancellors have been ever since entrusted with this Power.
With rule
… whom they might, and whom they might not Excommunicate, and for this reason Lay-chancelloursChancellors have been ever since entrusted with this Power.
Stephen Lobb · The True Dissenter · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Bishops, Deans, Archdeacons and the rest that bear Office in the same, [namely, Lay-chancelloursChancellors, Officials, Commissaries &c.] is Antichristian or repugnant to the word of God, is excommunicated …
With rule
… Bishops, Deans, Archdeacons and the rest that bear Office in the same, [namely, Lay-chancelloursChancellors, Officials, Commissaries &c.] is Antichristian or repugnant to the word of God, is excommunicated …
Stephen Lobb · The True Dissenter · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Constitution of the Government as it was by Archbishops, Bishops, Deans, Archdeacons, Lay-chancelloursChancellors &c. asserting all these offices to be repugnant to the word of God and …
With rule
… the Constitution of the Government as it was by Archbishops, Bishops, Deans, Archdeacons, Lay-chancelloursChancellors &c. asserting all these offices to be repugnant to the word of God and …
Stephen Lobb · The True Dissenter · p. 28 · Open in the reader