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mathewesMatthews

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

Puritas changed it
76 times in 49 works
Consistency
100% (76 of 76)
Reach if approved
~80 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: matthew's
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
76 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (76 changes in 49 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 76)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    The second Edition, corrected and amended. LONDON Printed by Augustine MathewesMatthews, for Iohn Marriot and Iohn Grismand, and are to be sold at their Shops …
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    The second Edition, corrected and amended. LONDON Printed by Augustine MathewesMatthews, for Iohn Marriot and Iohn Grismand, and are to be sold at their Shops …

    Samuel Ward · The Life of Faith · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Ioſephs ſon, for the right of the kingdome. Therefore the Geneveans litle knewe Saint MathewesMatthews purpoſe: As. Calvin and Beza miſſed as the Iewes concerning the Romanes: falſlie holden …
    With rule
    … Ioſephs ſon, for the right of the kingdome. Therefore the Geneveans litle knewe Saint MathewesMatthews purpoſe: As. Calvin and Beza miſſed as the Iewes concerning the Romanes: falſlie holden …

    Hugh Broughton · A Defense of A Consent of Scripture · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    LONDON, Printed by Aug. MathewesMatthews for Humphrey Robinſon, at the ſigne of the three Pigeons in Pauls Church-yard.
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    LONDON, Printed by Aug. MathewesMatthews for Humphrey Robinſon, at the ſigne of the three Pigeons in Pauls Church-yard.

    Peter du Moulin Jr · A Learned Treatise of Traditions · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … imployed in this County by the Houſe of Commons (as tis commonly taken) one MathewesMatthews a man active and of ſtrong parts; he boldly and confidently denies the Scriptures …
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    … imployed in this County by the Houſe of Commons (as tis commonly taken) one MathewesMatthews a man active and of ſtrong parts; he boldly and confidently denies the Scriptures …

    Thomas Edwards · Gangrena Part 3 · p. 66 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … vnto them, or that they thought the Catholike church stood against thē. Looke Thomas MathewesMatthews Bible, in the Canticles of Salomon, & vpon the 16. of S. MathewesMatthews Gospell, the 18. verse …
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    … vnto them, or that they thought the Catholike church stood against thē. Looke Thomas MathewesMatthews Bible, in the Canticles of Salomon, & vpon the 16. of S. MathewesMatthews Gospell, the 18. verse …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 93 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … of the holie Gost. The wordes of our master spokē in the 24, chapter of MathewesMatthews Gospell serue nothing for your purpose. for in that place our Sauiour Christ Iesus …
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    … of the holie Gost. The wordes of our master spokē in the 24, chapter of MathewesMatthews Gospell serue nothing for your purpose. for in that place our Sauiour Christ Iesus …

    John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 308 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    Read the xxv. chapt. of S. MathewesMatthews Gospell.
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    Read the xxv. chapt. of S. MathewesMatthews Gospell.

    Thomas Becon · The Principles of Christian Religion · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … that by this doctrine, it had beene a sinne (before the writing of Saint MathewesMatthews Gospell) for any man to have done to others as he would they should …
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    … that by this doctrine, it had beene a sinne (before the writing of Saint MathewesMatthews Gospell) for any man to have done to others as he would they should …

    Robert Sanderson · Two Sermons · p. 68 · 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.