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geoffryGeoffrey

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

Puritas changed it
135 times in 24 works
Consistency
100% (135 of 135)
Reach if approved
~142 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: geoffrey
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
135 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (135 changes in 24 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 135)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Langham Archbiſhop of Canterbu y, Winifred Biſhop of Coventry, Robert Sherborne Biſhop of Chicheſter, GeoffryGeoffrey Biſhop of S. Aſaph, with ſundry others at home; Lewes ab Eperſtem, Bartholmew Suavenius …
    With rule
    … Langham Archbiſhop of Canterbu y, Winifred Biſhop of Coventry, Robert Sherborne Biſhop of Chicheſter, GeoffryGeoffrey Biſhop of S. Aſaph, with ſundry others at home; Lewes ab Eperſtem, Bartholmew Suavenius …

    William Prynne · The Unbishoping of Timothy and Titus · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … of the greateſt Peers of that age, writes thus of him, This year (an. 1214.) GeoffryGeoffrey Fitz-Peeter Juſticiary of all England, a man of great power and authority, TO …
    With rule
    … of the greateſt Peers of that age, writes thus of him, This year (an. 1214.) GeoffryGeoffrey Fitz-Peeter Juſticiary of all England, a man of great power and authority, TO …

    William Prynne · Plea for the Lords · p. 23 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … of Bath and Wels, Exeter, Worceter, Hereford, Chichester, Rochester, Bangor, and Sant Assaph, Alcredus, GeoffryGeoffrey, Thomas de Corbridge, Alexander Nevill, Richard Scroope, George Nevill, Thomas Woolsie, Edward Lee, Archbishops …
    With rule
    … of Bath and Wels, Exeter, Worceter, Hereford, Chichester, Rochester, Bangor, and Sant Assaph, Alcredus, GeoffryGeoffrey, Thomas de Corbridge, Alexander Nevill, Richard Scroope, George Nevill, Thomas Woolsie, Edward Lee, Archbishops …

    William Prynne · Of the Prelates Intolerable Usurpations · p. 6 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Francis. John L…ufkin. Richard Killingbury. 1343 17 John Hammond. John Steward. John Ayleſham. 1344 18 The ſame. GeoffryGeoffrey Witchingham Thomas Leg. 1345 19 Richard Lazer. Edmund Hemenhall. John of Gloceſter. 1346 20 Geoff. Witchingham. John of …
    With rule
    … Francis. John L…ufkin. Richard Killingbury. 1343 17 John Hammond. John Steward. John Ayleſham. 1344 18 The ſame. GeoffryGeoffrey Witchingham Thomas Leg. 1345 19 Richard Lazer. Edmund Hemenhall. John of Gloceſter. 1346 20 Geoff. Witchingham. John of …

    Thomas De Laune · The Present State of London · p. 232 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … the Roſe, a Book well known in our Country, becauſe of the Tranſlator thereof GeoffryGeoffrey Chaucer. And therefore as Paſquier thinks, that thoſe inferiour Officers are called Sergeans, that …
    With rule
    … the Roſe, a Book well known in our Country, becauſe of the Tranſlator thereof GeoffryGeoffrey Chaucer. And therefore as Paſquier thinks, that thoſe inferiour Officers are called Sergeans, that …

    John Hacket · A Memorial Offered to John Williams · p. 111 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    I Might here set down their… …quivoca…ing and palliating their wickednesse, as one GeoffryGeoffrey Wh…acres of Master Iohnsons Congregation, being found in bed with one Iudith Holder …
    With rule
    I Might here set down their… …quivoca…ing and palliating their wickednesse, as one GeoffryGeoffrey Wh…acres of Master Iohnsons Congregation, being found in bed with one Iudith Holder …

    Ephraim Pagitt · Heresiography · p. 58 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Argenton Knight, said in full Parliament to the said Iohn, That he the said GeoffryGeoffrey was at that time in the said Towne in company of the said Iohn …
    With rule
    … Argenton Knight, said in full Parliament to the said Iohn, That he the said GeoffryGeoffrey was at that time in the said Towne in company of the said Iohn …

    William Prynne · The Doom of Cowardice · p. 5 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … power to break his Oaths and Covenants which he had made with the ſaid GeoffryGeoffrey for the peoples Liberty and Kingdoms peace. Such Pillars and Staies are great and …
    With rule
    … power to break his Oaths and Covenants which he had made with the ſaid GeoffryGeoffrey for the peoples Liberty and Kingdoms peace. Such Pillars and Staies are great and …

    William Prynne · Plea for the Lords and House of Peers · p. 104 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.