Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50879 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

tompsonThompson

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

Puritas changed it: 55 times in 34 works
Consistency: 93.2% (55 of 59)
Reach if approved: ~62 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 59 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (55 changes in 34 works, 93.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 55)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Objections pag. 21. cap. 5. part. 1. I have anſwered in the place before cited. Yet even TompſonThompson denyeth that ever ſins once pardoned do return, or Juſtificationem à peccatis ſ…mel …
With rule
… Objections pag. 21. cap. 5. part. 1. I have anſwered in the place before cited. Yet even TompſonThompson denyeth that ever ſins once pardoned do return, or Juſtificationem à peccatis ſ…mel …
Richard Baxter · Of Justification · p. 393 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Jeſuites, to the number of above 120. of Somervile and his adherents, of Mayne, Nelſon, TompſonThompson, and the reſt of that Crue, of Payne, and his 50. Reſolutes, hired by the …
With rule
… Jeſuites, to the number of above 120. of Somervile and his adherents, of Mayne, Nelſon, TompſonThompson, and the reſt of that Crue, of Payne, and his 50. Reſolutes, hired by the …
Cornelius Burges · Another Sermon Preached to the House of Commons 5 November 1641 · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… there ſprung up a new broode of ſuch as did aſſert Arminianiſme, as Dutch TompſonThompson fellow of Clare-Hall, Mr. William Chappell fellow of Chriſts Colledge, (as the many …
With rule
… there ſprung up a new broode of ſuch as did aſſert Arminianiſme, as Dutch TompſonThompson fellow of Clare-Hall, Mr. William Chappell fellow of Chriſts Colledge, (as the many …
William Fenner · Willful Impenitency · Open in the reader
Printed
… n…r Croston ▪ of Much-Woolton, and the places thereabouts. Richard Mather and William TompsonThompson wish mercy and grace, truth and peace, from God the Father, through our Lord …
With rule
… n…r Croston ▪ of Much-Woolton, and the places thereabouts. Richard Mather and William TompsonThompson wish mercy and grace, truth and peace, from God the Father, through our Lord …
Richard Mather · A Heart-Melting Exhortation · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… London, goeth by the name of Mastor Wilson, but his true name is William TompsonThompson Doctor of Divinity, as some Iesuites have affirmed, but a most furious spirit and …
With rule
… London, goeth by the name of Mastor Wilson, but his true name is William TompsonThompson Doctor of Divinity, as some Iesuites have affirmed, but a most furious spirit and …
William Prynne · Hidden Works of Darkness Brought to Public Light · p. 216 · Open in the reader
Printed
… borne of the Virgin Mary was but a manifestation of the former. Master William TompsonThompson one of the Elders had spent some time with them before in the prison …
With rule
… borne of the Virgin Mary was but a manifestation of the former. Master William TompsonThompson one of the Elders had spent some time with them before in the prison …
Edward Winslow · The Danger of Tolerating Levelers in a Civil State · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
Mr. Will. TompſonThompson de Hillington
With rule
Mr. Will. TompſonThompson de Hillington
William Prynne · The County of Somerset Divided into Several Classes · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… passage from Oxford to London, for any Lord, Lady, Laundresse, &c, as if Col. TompsonThompson our learned Littletous Agent, were bribed to make legges and faces for them.
With rule
… passage from Oxford to London, for any Lord, Lady, Laundresse, &c, as if Col. TompsonThompson our learned Littletous Agent, were bribed to make legges and faces for them.
Francis Cheynell · Aulicus Dream · p. 1 · 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.

A Heart-Melting Exhortation A50250

Printed
… these suffering times. By RICHARD MATHE… Teacher of the Church at Dorchester and WILLIAM TOMPSONTHOMPSON Pastor of the Church at Brain…y in New England.
With rule
… these suffering times. By RICHARD MATHE… Teacher of the Church at Dorchester and WILLIAM TOMPSONTHOMPSON Pastor of the Church at Brain…y in New England.
Richard Mather · A Heart-Melting Exhortation · Open in the reader
Printed
Desirous of your eternal comfort in Christ Jesus, RICHARD MATHER, WILLIAM TOMPSONTHOMPSON▪ Dorchester in New England, the last of December, 1649.
With rule
Desirous of your eternal comfort in Christ Jesus, RICHARD MATHER, WILLIAM TOMPSONTHOMPSON▪ Dorchester in New England, the last of December, 1649.
Richard Mather · A Heart-Melting Exhortation · p. 84 · Open in the reader