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reignoldsReynolds

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

Puritas changed it
117 times in 47 works
Consistency
96.6% (117 of 121)
Reach if approved
~127 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: reignold's
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
121 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (117 changes in 47 works, 96.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 117)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … great light unto the church? Read the writings of Cartwright, Dudley Fenner, Hilderſham, John ReignoldsReynolds, Dod, Perkins, Bai…, Parker, Ames, Bradſhaw, &c. Beſides Scots▪ and all Foreigners, ſuch as …
    With rule
    … great light unto the church? Read the writings of Cartwright, Dudley Fenner, Hilderſham, John ReignoldsReynolds, Dod, Perkins, Bai…, Parker, Ames, Bradſhaw, &c. Beſides Scots▪ and all Foreigners, ſuch as …

    Richard Baxter · Whether Parish Congregations be True Christian Churches · p. 21 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … in his diſcourſe againſt Cartwright, has defended the Catholick Cauſe, and accordingly the ſaid ReignoldsReynolds in the preface againſt Whitaker, makes great uſe of Whitgift, and in the book …
    With rule
    … in his diſcourſe againſt Cartwright, has defended the Catholick Cauſe, and accordingly the ſaid ReignoldsReynolds in the preface againſt Whitaker, makes great uſe of Whitgift, and in the book …

    Stephen Lobb · The Harmony Between the Old and Present Non-Conformists · p. 33 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … find that even the old Non-conformiſts (ſuch as Cartwright, Hilderſham, Knewſtube, Dr. Jo. ReignoldsReynolds, Bradſhaw, Paget, Ball, &c.) petitioned for a Reformation, but not an Abolition of it …
    With rule
    … find that even the old Non-conformiſts (ſuch as Cartwright, Hilderſham, Knewſtube, Dr. Jo. ReignoldsReynolds, Bradſhaw, Paget, Ball, &c.) petitioned for a Reformation, but not an Abolition of it …

    Richard Baxter · Judgment of Nonconformists About Difference Between Grace and Morality · p. 101 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … humane, and God hath inſtituted no form of Church Government (as Doctor Stillingfleet, Biſhop ReignoldsReynolds and others think). The Canons of 1640. which ſet up Altars and Rails, and bowing …
    With rule
    … humane, and God hath inſtituted no form of Church Government (as Doctor Stillingfleet, Biſhop ReignoldsReynolds and others think). The Canons of 1640. which ſet up Altars and Rails, and bowing …

    Richard Baxter · The Nonconformists Plea for Peace Part 2 · p. 158 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Command, but all left to prudence as civil Government is: Such was Dr. Edward ReignoldsReynolds and ſome others; ſome were for the ſole Government of the Magiſtracy, called Eraſtians …
    With rule
    … Command, but all left to prudence as civil Government is: Such was Dr. Edward ReignoldsReynolds and ſome others; ſome were for the ſole Government of the Magiſtracy, called Eraſtians …

    Richard Baxter · Answer to Stillingfleets Charge of Separation · p. 83 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … yet the rest of our brethren examined and approved of it, saving that Dr. ReignoldsReynolds disliked the displeasing the Bishops by such large additions, and a Liturgie seeming entire …
    With rule
    … yet the rest of our brethren examined and approved of it, saving that Dr. ReignoldsReynolds disliked the displeasing the Bishops by such large additions, and a Liturgie seeming entire …

    Richard Baxter · A Defense of the Principles of Love · p. 29 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Seal to the Persons nominated on both sides. I intreated Mr. Calamy and Dr. ReignoldsReynolds to leave me out: for though I much desired the Expedition of the Work …
    With rule
    … Seal to the Persons nominated on both sides. I intreated Mr. Calamy and Dr. ReignoldsReynolds to leave me out: for though I much desired the Expedition of the Work …

    Richard Baxter · Baxters Narrative of His Life and Times · p. 303 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … not publickly oppoſe them. Dr. Humphery was allowed Reigus Profeſſour in Oxford: Dr. John ReignoldsReynolds Preſident of Corpus Ch. Col. Mr. Perkins, Lecturer in Cambridge, Mr. Paul Bayne after …
    With rule
    … not publickly oppoſe them. Dr. Humphery was allowed Reigus Profeſſour in Oxford: Dr. John ReignoldsReynolds Preſident of Corpus Ch. Col. Mr. Perkins, Lecturer in Cambridge, Mr. Paul Bayne after …

    Richard Baxter · A Second True Defense of the Nonconformists · p. 39 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

2 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.

Letter to Francis Knolles A57258

  • Printed
    DR. REIGNOLDSREYNOLDS HIS LETTER TO that Worthy Councellor, SIR FRANCIS KNOLLES, Concerning ſome paſſages in Dr …
    With rule
    DR. REIGNOLDSREYNOLDS HIS LETTER TO that Worthy Councellor, SIR FRANCIS KNOLLES, Concerning ſome paſſages in Dr …

    John Rainolds · Letter to Francis Knolles · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    DOCTOR REIGNOLDSREYNOLDS his Letter to Sr. Francis Knolles concerning Dr. Bancrofts Sermon at Pauls croſſe, Feb …
    With rule
    DOCTOR REIGNOLDSREYNOLDS his Letter to Sr. Francis Knolles concerning Dr. Bancrofts Sermon at Pauls croſſe, Feb …

    John Rainolds · Letter to Francis Knolles · p. 1 · Open in the reader