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Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50919 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

archebysshopArchbishop

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

Puritas changed it
48 times in 4 works
Consistency
92.3% (48 of 52)
Reach if approved
~55 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: archbishop
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
52 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (48 changes in 4 works, 92.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (5 of 48)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    Anon the ArchebysshopArchbishop called for a masseboke / and caused all those Prelates and doctours to sweare therevpon …
    With rule
    Anon the ArchebysshopArchbishop called for a masseboke / and caused all those Prelates and doctours to sweare therevpon …

    John Bale · Brief Chronicle Concerning Examination and Death of John Oldcastle · p. 25 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … to the doctrine of Christ and the lyuinge of his Apostles. Thomas Arondell than ArchebysshopArchbishop of Canterberye / beinge both an aduersarye to him and to the verite that he …
    With rule
    … to the doctrine of Christ and the lyuinge of his Apostles. Thomas Arondell than ArchebysshopArchbishop of Canterberye / beinge both an aduersarye to him and to the verite that he …

    John Bale · A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … such strength to the pēne of that reuerend father in God, Tho mas Cranmer ArchebysshopArchbishop of Cā terbury to cut the knottes of deuelyshe Sophistrie lyncked and knyt by …
    With rule
    … such strength to the pēne of that reuerend father in God, Tho mas Cranmer ArchebysshopArchbishop of Cā terbury to cut the knottes of deuelyshe Sophistrie lyncked and knyt by …

    John Knox · A Faithful Admonition · p. 27 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Englande and Irelande immediatly vnder God supreme heed, youre graces humble subiecte & Chaplayne Thomas ArchebysshopArchbishop of Canterbury, wissheth aboundāce of al grace & godlynes with a longe & prosperous raigne.
    With rule
    … Englande and Irelande immediatly vnder God supreme heed, youre graces humble subiecte & Chaplayne Thomas ArchebysshopArchbishop of Canterbury, wissheth aboundāce of al grace & godlynes with a longe & prosperous raigne.

    Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Catechism for Children · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … more ample fourme than there. Specyallye in the great processe which Thomas Arundell the ArchebysshopArchbishop of Caunterburye made than agaynst him / wrytten by his owne notaryes and clar… / tokened …
    With rule
    … more ample fourme than there. Specyallye in the great processe which Thomas Arundell the ArchebysshopArchbishop of Caunterburye made than agaynst him / wrytten by his owne notaryes and clar… / tokened …

    John Bale · Brief Chronicle Concerning Examination and Death of John Oldcastle · p. 3 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.