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westmorelandWestmorland

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

Puritas changed it
31 times in 14 works
Consistency
100% (31 of 31)
Reach if approved
~33 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
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Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
31 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (31 changes in 14 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 31)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    BErnard Gilpin was born at Kentmire in the County of WestmorelandWestmorland Anno Christi 1517. of an ancient, and honorable family: when he was but a child …
    With rule
    BErnard Gilpin was born at Kentmire in the County of WestmorelandWestmorland Anno Christi 1517. of an ancient, and honorable family: when he was but a child …

    Thomas Fuller · The Dead Yet Speaking · p. 352 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Inhabitants of the Land; not Gods Meſsengers, Miniſters, ſent thence to ſave mens Souls. 2. WeſtmorelandWestmorland is well known, to have abounded with Jeſuites, Popiſh Prieſt… Fryers, Recuſants, and perſons …
    With rule
    … Inhabitants of the Land; not Gods Meſsengers, Miniſters, ſent thence to ſave mens Souls. 2. WeſtmorelandWestmorland is well known, to have abounded with Jeſuites, Popiſh Prieſt… Fryers, Recuſants, and perſons …

    William Prynne · The Quakers Unmasked 2 · p. 36 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … and their owne ſpirits and conſciences will beare me witneſſe. 3. A godly Miniſter in WeſtmorelandWestmorland wrote to us, that one of his charge being perverted to become a Quaker …
    With rule
    … and their owne ſpirits and conſciences will beare me witneſſe. 3. A godly Miniſter in WeſtmorelandWestmorland wrote to us, that one of his charge being perverted to become a Quaker …

    Thomas Weld · Further Discovery of the Quakers · p. 30 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … That they all came from the North, that their birth and beeing was in WeſtmorelandWestmorland neer Kendal, where they lived and walked, none of them having ever been out …
    With rule
    … That they all came from the North, that their birth and beeing was in WeſtmorelandWestmorland neer Kendal, where they lived and walked, none of them having ever been out …

    William Prynne · The Quakers Unmasked · p. 36 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Warmſtree and Dr. Good conſented to till Dr. Guning drew them off again. And WeſtmorelandWestmorland, Cumberland, Dorſetſhire, Wiltſhire, Hampſhire, Eſſex, and Dublin all imitated us, ſo that we were …
    With rule
    … Warmſtree and Dr. Good conſented to till Dr. Guning drew them off again. And WeſtmorelandWestmorland, Cumberland, Dorſetſhire, Wiltſhire, Hampſhire, Eſſex, and Dublin all imitated us, ſo that we were …

    Richard Baxter · Penitent Confession and Vindication in Answer to a Book · p. 34 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … who received sitting, p. 157, &c. A Letter from the associated Ministers in Cumberland and WestmorelandWestmorland, to the associated Ministers in Worcestershire, p. 162. an Answer to it, p. 164. Many other …
    With rule
    … who received sitting, p. 157, &c. A Letter from the associated Ministers in Cumberland and WestmorelandWestmorland, to the associated Ministers in Worcestershire, p. 162. an Answer to it, p. 164. Many other …

    Richard Baxter · Baxters Narrative of His Life and Times · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … at Northallerton in Yorkeshire seeking their Draughts this Winter, and the Yorkeshire, Cumberland, and WestmorelandWestmorland men, were forced to give money for releasing their Draughts, and some to sell …
    With rule
    … at Northallerton in Yorkeshire seeking their Draughts this Winter, and the Yorkeshire, Cumberland, and WestmorelandWestmorland men, were forced to give money for releasing their Draughts, and some to sell …

    Edward Bowles · Manifest Truth · p. 36 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … year about five a clock in the afternoon in the Countries of Cumberland, and WestmorelandWestmorland, was a general Earth-quake, wherewith the people were so affrighted that many of …
    With rule
    … year about five a clock in the afternoon in the Countries of Cumberland, and WestmorelandWestmorland, was a general Earth-quake, wherewith the people were so affrighted that many of …

    Samuel Clarke · A Mirror both for Saints and Sinners · p. 518 · 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.