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caunterburieCanterbury

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

Puritas changed it
29 times in 9 works
Consistency
100% (29 of 29)
Reach if approved
~30 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: canterbury
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
29 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (29 changes in 9 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 29)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Henrie Golde, Bacheler of diuinitie; Richard Maſter, Parſon of Aldington; Edwarde Bocking, Monke of CaunterburieCanterbury; Iohn Dearing, Monke of CaunterburieCanterbury; Hugh Ritch, Frier, Warden of the Graye friers of …
    With rule
    … Henrie Golde, Bacheler of diuinitie; Richard Maſter, Parſon of Aldington; Edwarde Bocking, Monke of CaunterburieCanterbury; Iohn Dearing, Monke of CaunterburieCanterbury; Hugh Ritch, Frier, Warden of the Graye friers of …

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 29 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … arise. Most liuely was this fulfilled such tyme, as William Courteney the Archbishoppe of CaunterburieCanterbury with Antichristes sinagoge of sorcerers sate in cōsistorie against Christes doctrine in Iohn Wycleue …
    With rule
    … arise. Most liuely was this fulfilled such tyme, as William Courteney the Archbishoppe of CaunterburieCanterbury with Antichristes sinagoge of sorcerers sate in cōsistorie against Christes doctrine in Iohn Wycleue …

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

  3. Printed
    … the right of the Archebishoprike, and translated it by the same Augustines meanes to CaunterburieCanterbury. Al these thinges did Gregorie as Patriarke of Rome, and died a confessour, Anno …
    With rule
    … the right of the Archebishoprike, and translated it by the same Augustines meanes to CaunterburieCanterbury. Al these thinges did Gregorie as Patriarke of Rome, and died a confessour, Anno …

    John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … who haue broken the yee before. King Stephen perceiuing that Theobald Arch-Biſhoppe of CaunterburieCanterbury brought Popiſh laws from Rome into Englande, by decree of Parliament condemneth them, & burned …
    With rule
    … who haue broken the yee before. King Stephen perceiuing that Theobald Arch-Biſhoppe of CaunterburieCanterbury brought Popiſh laws from Rome into Englande, by decree of Parliament condemneth them, & burned …

    Laurence Humphrey · A View of the Romish Hydra · p. 125 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    ¶To the moste reuerende father in God, Thomas Archbishop of CaunterburieCanterbury, Primate of al Englande and Metropolitane, Thomas Beacon his humble and faythefull seruaunte wisheth …
    With rule
    ¶To the moste reuerende father in God, Thomas Archbishop of CaunterburieCanterbury, Primate of al Englande and Metropolitane, Thomas Beacon his humble and faythefull seruaunte wisheth …

    Thomas Becon · A Fruitful Treatise · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … royles or rigges, (as it please you to tearme them) Wolues berries, Belflowres, and CaunterburieCanterbury tales. Also a litle further from the Bee hiue, whither commonlie they go to …
    With rule
    … royles or rigges, (as it please you to tearme them) Wolues berries, Belflowres, and CaunterburieCanterbury tales. Also a litle further from the Bee hiue, whither commonlie they go to …

    Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · p. 341 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … him, calling him all kinde of opprobrious names. In the end my Lorde of CaunterburieCanterbury seeming to rise and goe hys waies, the fond priest fell downe on his …
    With rule
    … him, calling him all kinde of opprobrious names. In the end my Lorde of CaunterburieCanterbury seeming to rise and goe hys waies, the fond priest fell downe on his …

    John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1863 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … bleare the eyes of foolish Papistes: As if one shoulde saye, the Bishops of CaunterburieCanterbury haue beene borne, some in Yorke shire, some in Durham, some in Chester, some …
    With rule
    … bleare the eyes of foolish Papistes: As if one shoulde saye, the Bishops of CaunterburieCanterbury haue beene borne, some in Yorke shire, some in Durham, some in Chester, some …

    William Fulke · Three Pillars and Arch-patriarchs of the Popish Synagogues · p. 545 · 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.