Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50699 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

northfolkeNorfolk

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

Puritas changed it: 77 times in 25 works
Consistency: 98.7% (77 of 78)
Reach if approved: ~82 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: northfolk
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 78 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (77 changes in 25 works, 98.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 77)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… prior of Lenton not farre from Nothyngham. Besydes that was done at Walsyngham in NorthfolkeNorfolk / by syr Nycolas Mylam a Chanon / George Gysborow fryre Peckoc / and other more. But …
With rule
… prior of Lenton not farre from Nothyngham. Besydes that was done at Walsyngham in NorthfolkeNorfolk / by syr Nycolas Mylam a Chanon / George Gysborow fryre Peckoc / and other more. But …
John Bale · A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted · Open in the reader
Printed
… the wic ked euen as it were amongest the rebels. They that dwelled in NorthfolkeNorfolk or Deuonshtere at the tyme of rebellion, they which were faithfull to their king …
With rule
… the wic ked euen as it were amongest the rebels. They that dwelled in NorthfolkeNorfolk or Deuonshtere at the tyme of rebellion, they which were faithfull to their king …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… and the Queene of Scottes: after, for Dukes and Noble men: The Duke of NorthfolkeNorfolk, the Duke of Guiſe, the Duke of Alba, the Duke of Medina, The Earle …
With rule
… and the Queene of Scottes: after, for Dukes and Noble men: The Duke of NorthfolkeNorfolk, the Duke of Guiſe, the Duke of Alba, the Duke of Medina, The Earle …
Josias Nichols · The Plea of the Innocent · p. 151 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sillables, which do lacke cases. Thou liues wickedly, thou speakes naughtely. The rebelles of NorthfolkeNorfolk (ꝙ a most worthie man that made an inuectiue against thē) through slauerie, slew …
With rule
… sillables, which do lacke cases. Thou liues wickedly, thou speakes naughtely. The rebelles of NorthfolkeNorfolk (ꝙ a most worthie man that made an inuectiue against thē) through slauerie, slew …
Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · p. 108 · Open in the reader
Printed
… detained, he was presented to king Edmund, that raigned over the East-Angles in NorthfolkeNorfolk and Suffolke at that time. The King (as hee was a just and good …
With rule
… detained, he was presented to king Edmund, that raigned over the East-Angles in NorthfolkeNorfolk and Suffolke at that time. The King (as hee was a just and good …
Thomas Beard · The Theater of Gods Judgments · p. 208 · Open in the reader
Printed
¶Lady Kneuet in NorthfolkeNorfolk.
With rule
¶Lady Kneuet in NorthfolkeNorfolk.
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 2072 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in his ſteed. The Queene in the interim treated with Thomas Howard Duke of NorthfolkeNorfolk, about a match with him, and to ſeiſe upon the Realm of Scotland, whereupon …
With rule
… in his ſteed. The Queene in the interim treated with Thomas Howard Duke of NorthfolkeNorfolk, about a match with him, and to ſeiſe upon the Realm of Scotland, whereupon …
William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments Part 4 · p. 108 · Open in the reader
Printed
A Letter written by M. Edward Deringe, to his Lord & Maiſter the Duke of NorthfolkeNorfolk.
With rule
A Letter written by M. Edward Deringe, to his Lord & Maiſter the Duke of NorthfolkeNorfolk.
Edward Dering · Certain Godly and Very Comfortable Letters · 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.