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Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50656 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

majestratesMagistrates

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

Puritas changed it
84 times in 27 works
Consistency
98.8% (84 of 85)
Reach if approved
~89 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: magistrates
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
85 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (84 changes in 27 works, 98.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 84)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    The 4th. is, That Princes and temporall MajeſtratesMagistrates cannot inflict inward and ſpirituall, but only temporall and externall puniſhments. Therefore they cannot …
    With rule
    The 4th. is, That Princes and temporall MajeſtratesMagistrates cannot inflict inward and ſpirituall, but only temporall and externall puniſhments. Therefore they cannot …

    William Prynne · Truth Triumphing Over Falsehood · p. 123 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    If I come where the MajeſtratesMagistrates are ſitting, and have civill juſtice there adminiſtred to me; Albeit by this going …
    With rule
    If I come where the MajeſtratesMagistrates are ſitting, and have civill juſtice there adminiſtred to me; Albeit by this going …

    John Canne · A Stay Against Straying · p. 64 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … the elder towards the younger: if you ſtand in a private, or publick place, MajeſtratesMagistrates, or Subjects; if you profeſs godlineſs, manifeſt in your Converſations in performing the duties …
    With rule
    … the elder towards the younger: if you ſtand in a private, or publick place, MajeſtratesMagistrates, or Subjects; if you profeſs godlineſs, manifeſt in your Converſations in performing the duties …

    Jeremiah Burroughs · Gospel Conversation · p. 25 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Paul in regard of the Corinthians present distresse and necessity for want of Christian MajestratesMagistrates to punish this incestuous, person with death and civill Censures adviseth the Church of …
    With rule
    … Paul in regard of the Corinthians present distresse and necessity for want of Christian MajestratesMagistrates to punish this incestuous, person with death and civill Censures adviseth the Church of …

    William Prynne · Diotrephes Catechized · p. 11 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … the Christian faith, or any generall open profession made of it by the Princes, MajestratesMagistrates and Major part of any Nation, Kingdome, Republique, who were then all generally Pagans …
    With rule
    … the Christian faith, or any generall open profession made of it by the Princes, MajestratesMagistrates and Major part of any Nation, Kingdome, Republique, who were then all generally Pagans …

    William Prynne · Twelve Considerable Serious Questions · p. 5 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    Secondly, to teach all Chriſtians (MajeſtratesMagistrates and Miniſters moſt eſpecially) as induſtry ſo patience, daily to doe, and conſtantly to …
    With rule
    Secondly, to teach all Chriſtians (MajeſtratesMagistrates and Miniſters moſt eſpecially) as induſtry ſo patience, daily to doe, and conſtantly to …

    Thomas Fuller · Truth Maintained · p. 73 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    Beſides Chriſtian, MajeſtratesMagistrates ſtand upon the vantage ground, having the great-ſumminary of ſacred writ to ſublinate …
    With rule
    Beſides Chriſtian, MajeſtratesMagistrates ſtand upon the vantage ground, having the great-ſumminary of ſacred writ to ſublinate …

    John Cook · The Vindication of the Law · p. 84 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … when the firſt ſheet is done off, others are printed by the ſame ſtamps. MajeſtratesMagistrates are publike fountains of good or evil, to the people over whom they are …
    With rule
    … when the firſt ſheet is done off, others are printed by the ſame ſtamps. MajeſtratesMagistrates are publike fountains of good or evil, to the people over whom they are …

    Thomas Manton · Commentary on Jude · p. 327 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.