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williāWilliam

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

Puritas changed it
41 times in 19 works
Consistency
95.3% (41 of 43)
Reach if approved
~45 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
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Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
43 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
williā (2)
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (41 changes in 19 works, 95.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 41)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … at Auynyon vnder Pope Innocent the sixth? What other cause did consume to ashes WilliāWilliam Sawtre…, Swinderbie, Thorpe, G…alter, Bruite a very learned young man, Iohn Badbie, Lorde …
    With rule
    … at Auynyon vnder Pope Innocent the sixth? What other cause did consume to ashes WilliāWilliam Sawtre…, Swinderbie, Thorpe, G…alter, Bruite a very learned young man, Iohn Badbie, Lorde …

    John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … enimyes, no heretike agaynst God once mentioned. No more dyd Thomas Smith, Richard Dallison, WilliāWilliam Stawne, Steuē Prowet, Fryer Adriā, Quarrie the Pardoner, with suche other blynde Popish Poetes …
    With rule
    … enimyes, no heretike agaynst God once mentioned. No more dyd Thomas Smith, Richard Dallison, WilliāWilliam Stawne, Steuē Prowet, Fryer Adriā, Quarrie the Pardoner, with suche other blynde Popish Poetes …

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … wil diſpēſe wt any oth. Adrian the Pope the fourth of that name excōmunicated WilliāWilliam King of Sicily, and aſſoiled al thoſe that were ſubiect to his gouernmēt frō …
    With rule
    … wil diſpēſe wt any oth. Adrian the Pope the fourth of that name excōmunicated WilliāWilliam King of Sicily, and aſſoiled al thoſe that were ſubiect to his gouernmēt frō …

    Laurence Humphrey · A View of the Romish Hydra · p. 24 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    TO THE RIGHT worshipfull, my very worthy and Christian friend, Sir WilliāWilliam Gee, knight, one of his Maiesties honorable Counsel in the North. Recorder of the …
    With rule
    TO THE RIGHT worshipfull, my very worthy and Christian friend, Sir WilliāWilliam Gee, knight, one of his Maiesties honorable Counsel in the North. Recorder of the …

    William Perkins · Exposition of Zephaniah 2 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … kings, of other countries &c. What but naughtie demeanour of the Pope made King WilliāWilliam in his time alleadge: yt no Archebishop nor Bishop of his Reahne should haue …
    With rule
    … kings, of other countries &c. What but naughtie demeanour of the Pope made King WilliāWilliam in his time alleadge: yt no Archebishop nor Bishop of his Reahne should haue …

    Perceval Wiburn · Reproof of Howlets Untimely Shrieking · p. 41 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Capuce into Germanie, who calling the princes together to Colon, caused them to chuse WilliāWilliam Earle of Holland, king, agaynst Friderike & Conrade. Which thing wrought new broyles in the …
    With rule
    … Capuce into Germanie, who calling the princes together to Colon, caused them to chuse WilliāWilliam Earle of Holland, king, agaynst Friderike & Conrade. Which thing wrought new broyles in the …

    Henrich Bullinger · Confutation of the Popes Bull · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … the backe thereof, so long till the very smowes crackt a sūder. Witnes hereof WilliāWilliam Kandler then dwelling in Muchbently, which was there presēt and saw it. Also Mistres …
    With rule
    … the backe thereof, so long till the very smowes crackt a sūder. Witnes hereof WilliāWilliam Kandler then dwelling in Muchbently, which was there presēt and saw it. Also Mistres …

    John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 2007 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    Iulie. 30 WilliāWilliam Ailewarde died in priſō.
    With rule
    Iulie. 30 WilliāWilliam Ailewarde died in priſō.

    John Knox · Letter to Ministers in Geneva · p. 113 · 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.