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bromtonBrompton

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

Puritas changed it
201 times in 16 works
Consistency
99.5% (201 of 202)
Reach if approved
~212 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
202 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (201 changes in 16 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 201)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … pillage and oppress the English: Huntindon wri…es, it was but 21 thousand pounds; and BromtonBrompton avers… that it was Cnute, not Ethelred, who commanded it to be paid to …
    With rule
    … pillage and oppress the English: Huntindon wri…es, it was but 21 thousand pounds; and BromtonBrompton avers… that it was Cnute, not Ethelred, who commanded it to be paid to …

    William Prynne · The Exact Recorder · p. 201 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … then brought them to Croyland Abby, publiſhed by Mr. Iohn Selden, nor yet in BromtonBrompton, I cannot but reject it as counterfeit, and eſteem it rather, a Declaration of …
    With rule
    … then brought them to Croyland Abby, publiſhed by Mr. Iohn Selden, nor yet in BromtonBrompton, I cannot but reject it as counterfeit, and eſteem it rather, a Declaration of …

    William Prynne · Demurrer to the Jews · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Language called Algiva; and so, out of two Names, they have made two Queens. BromtonBrompton leaves the matter in Dispute, and saith some affirm, The Mother of Edmond was …
    With rule
    … Language called Algiva; and so, out of two Names, they have made two Queens. BromtonBrompton leaves the matter in Dispute, and saith some affirm, The Mother of Edmond was …

    Edward Stillingfleet · Unreasonableness of a New Separation Because of Oaths · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … unius pueri aperte viderunt tranſmutari: Puero dextra elevata primo Regem, poſtea Comitem benedicente; So BromtonBrompton. Sacraque dextera ſuper Regem extenſa, ſignum Sanctae Crucis eum benedicendo impinxit. At Rex dimiſſo …
    With rule
    … unius pueri aperte viderunt tranſmutari: Puero dextra elevata primo Regem, poſtea Comitem benedicente; So BromtonBrompton. Sacraque dextera ſuper Regem extenſa, ſignum Sanctae Crucis eum benedicendo impinxit. At Rex dimiſſo …

    William Prynne · Vindication of Ecclesiastical Volume 3 · p. 72 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … flouriſhing and writing in that age, Matthew Paris, Florentius Wigornienſis, two Engliſh Monks, Johannis BromtonBrompton, Radulphus de Diceto, Aventinus, and ſundry others out of them, reciting this Popes Decrees …
    With rule
    … flouriſhing and writing in that age, Matthew Paris, Florentius Wigornienſis, two Engliſh Monks, Johannis BromtonBrompton, Radulphus de Diceto, Aventinus, and ſundry others out of them, reciting this Popes Decrees …

    William Prynne · Chronological History of Popes Intolerable Usurpations · p. 291 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … in deriſion of Christian Religion, as Matthew VVeſtminſter, Flores Hiſtoriarum, Ann. 1145. p. 39. Chronicon Johannis BromtonBrompton; Col. 1048. Hygden in his Polychronicon; Antoninus: Centuriae Magdeburgenſes: Cent. 12. c. 14. Mr. John Fox in …
    With rule
    … in deriſion of Christian Religion, as Matthew VVeſtminſter, Flores Hiſtoriarum, Ann. 1145. p. 39. Chronicon Johannis BromtonBrompton; Col. 1048. Hygden in his Polychronicon; Antoninus: Centuriae Magdeburgenſes: Cent. 12. c. 14. Mr. John Fox in …

    William Prynne · Demurrer to the Jews 2 · p. 6 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … this, ſo you may have more out of the ſame Infallible Author, viz. Jo. BromtonBrompton. in Chronico ſuo. At a Council Aſſembled at Mantua by the Emperour Henry the …
    With rule
    … this, ſo you may have more out of the ſame Infallible Author, viz. Jo. BromtonBrompton. in Chronico ſuo. At a Council Aſſembled at Mantua by the Emperour Henry the …

    John Godolphin · Abridgment of Ecclesiastical Laws · p. 66 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … pleaded his right; and by the powerfull influence of Godwin was accepted. Others, as BromtonBrompton, with no probability write, that Godwin at this time was fled into Denmarke, for …
    With rule
    … pleaded his right; and by the powerfull influence of Godwin was accepted. Others, as BromtonBrompton, with no probability write, that Godwin at this time was fled into Denmarke, for …

    John Milton · The History of Britain · p. 276 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 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.

Historical Vindication Part 3 A91297

  • Printed
    … writes Malmesbury; the common fame being he was murdered, by Edric as aforeſaid. And bromtonBrompton, who recites all three opinions, concludes thus, Sed primus modus, videlice…, quod rex Edmundus …
    With rule
    … writes Malmesbury; the common fame being he was murdered, by Edric as aforeſaid. And bromtonBrompton, who recites all three opinions, concludes thus, Sed primus modus, videlice…, quod rex Edmundus …

    William Prynne · Historical Vindication Part 3 · p. 219 · Open in the reader