Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50317 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

surplissesSurplices

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

Puritas changed it: 214 times in 12 works
Consistency: 98.6% (214 of 217)
Reach if approved: ~228 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: surplices
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 217 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (214 changes in 12 works, 98.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 214)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… seised upon by force, imprisoned and tortured; and when neer 200 of them in their SurplissesSurplices and Priests habits came all together to the Kings place in London barefoot, imploring …
With rule
… seised upon by force, imprisoned and tortured; and when neer 200 of them in their SurplissesSurplices and Priests habits came all together to the Kings place in London barefoot, imploring …
William Prynne · A Brief Register Calendar Part 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and other ſcandalous, unclean Offendors, they cauſe them to ſtand in white Sheets or SurpliſſesSurplices in the Church before all the Congregation to their ſhame, by way, of puniſhment …
With rule
… and other ſcandalous, unclean Offendors, they cauſe them to ſtand in white Sheets or SurpliſſesSurplices in the Church before all the Congregation to their ſhame, by way, of puniſhment …
William Prynne · Why Some do Not Conform to Common Prayer · p. 81 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Sacrifice with ſtately Altars, Altar-cloaths, Tapers, Pavements, Aſcents, Prieſts in rich embroidered Copes, SurpliſſesSurplices, Cringings and Bowings, Elevation of the Hoſt, as it is fond and ſuperſtitiouſly called …
With rule
… Sacrifice with ſtately Altars, Altar-cloaths, Tapers, Pavements, Aſcents, Prieſts in rich embroidered Copes, SurpliſſesSurplices, Cringings and Bowings, Elevation of the Hoſt, as it is fond and ſuperſtitiouſly called …
Richard Byfield · The Gospels Glory · p. 248 · Open in the reader
Printed
… perhaps glaſſe windowes, and Church walls amended, Bells broken, and Ropes prepared, Pulpits, Seats, SurpliſſesSurplices, and Communion Tables to be all fit; weighty matters.
With rule
… perhaps glaſſe windowes, and Church walls amended, Bells broken, and Ropes prepared, Pulpits, Seats, SurpliſſesSurplices, and Communion Tables to be all fit; weighty matters.
Calybute Downing · The Clear Antithesis · p. 7 · Open in the reader
Printed
… defaced, and none other hereafter ſet up in their places; And that all Copes, SurpliſſesSurplices, Superſtious Veſtments, Roods, and Fonts aforeſaid, be likewiſe utterly defaced, whereunto all perſons within …
With rule
… defaced, and none other hereafter ſet up in their places; And that all Copes, SurpliſſesSurplices, Superſtious Veſtments, Roods, and Fonts aforeſaid, be likewiſe utterly defaced, whereunto all perſons within …
John Vicars · Gods Ark Overtopping the Worlds Waves · p. 222 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their wafer Cake? If any ſcrupte ſhall ariſe hereupon, touching the Croſſe, Copes and SurpliſſesSurplices, vſed in the Church of England. It may well bee ſaid, that they were …
With rule
… their wafer Cake? If any ſcrupte ſhall ariſe hereupon, touching the Croſſe, Copes and SurpliſſesSurplices, vſed in the Church of England. It may well bee ſaid, that they were …
John Mayer · The English Catechism Explained · p. 226 · Open in the reader
Printed
… can they reſiſt his ordinances, in matters of religion? why weare they not veſtments, SurpliſſesSurplices, the Cap, and Tippet? why refuſe they to baptiſe with the ſigne of the …
With rule
… can they reſiſt his ordinances, in matters of religion? why weare they not veſtments, SurpliſſesSurplices, the Cap, and Tippet? why refuſe they to baptiſe with the ſigne of the …
Anthony Wotton · Answer to a Popish Pamphlet · p. 54 · Open in the reader
Printed
… book, or book of homilys? There did hang a while agone abundance of Copes, SurpliſſesSurplices, Alters, Crucifixes, Images, and ſuch traſh, til they were taken down by a ſtrong …
With rule
… book, or book of homilys? There did hang a while agone abundance of Copes, SurpliſſesSurplices, Alters, Crucifixes, Images, and ſuch traſh, til they were taken down by a ſtrong …
John Carter · The Nail and the Wheel · p. 22 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 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.

Answer to a Popish Pamphlet A15733

Printed
The Proteſtants in fine will vſe Veſtments, Muſicke, Organes, ſurpliſſesSurplices, and diuerſe other ceremonies, in diuine ſeruice, and adminiſtration of ſacraments: all which the …
With rule
The Proteſtants in fine will vſe Veſtments, Muſicke, Organes, ſurpliſſesSurplices, and diuerſe other ceremonies, in diuine ſeruice, and adminiſtration of ſacraments: all which the …
Anthony Wotton · Answer to a Popish Pamphlet · p. 57 · Open in the reader