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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6841 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

coblercobbler

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
175 times in 131 works
Consistency
87.9% (175 of 199)
Reach if approved
~209 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: cobbler
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
199 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (175 changes in 131 works, 87.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 175)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … accuſed for making ſome of them, together with the Printers, and Humfry Newman a CoblerCobbler, chief diſperſer of them. The Star-chamber deeply fined Sir Richard Knightly, and Sir …
    With rule
    … accuſed for making ſome of them, together with the Printers, and Humfry Newman a CoblerCobbler, chief diſperſer of them. The Star-chamber deeply fined Sir Richard Knightly, and Sir …

    William Gearing · The History of the Church of Great Britain · p. 250 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … no Bethel, gaue her ſuch a blow, and ſo coniured downe that Cacodemon, that CoblerCobbler and tinker of Babell, that ſhe will neuer be able to outgrow it, nor …
    With rule
    … no Bethel, gaue her ſuch a blow, and ſo coniured downe that Cacodemon, that CoblerCobbler and tinker of Babell, that ſhe will neuer be able to outgrow it, nor …

    John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … late Canons, & of diuers other things. It is alſo againſt reaſon, that the baſeſt CoblerCobbler and Tinker cannot bee eiected from his free hold of but ten ſhillings by …
    With rule
    … late Canons, & of diuers other things. It is alſo againſt reaſon, that the baſeſt CoblerCobbler and Tinker cannot bee eiected from his free hold of but ten ſhillings by …

    Gabriel Powel · The Deprived and Silenced Ministers Arguments · p. 36 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … modell of their owne apprehensions. Who is there, that cannot fault anothers worke? The CoblerCobbler could espy something amisse in Apelles his master-piece; because the picture was not …
    With rule
    … modell of their owne apprehensions. Who is there, that cannot fault anothers worke? The CoblerCobbler could espy something amisse in Apelles his master-piece; because the picture was not …

    Robert Sanderson · Two Sermons at Pauls Cross · p. 10 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … that Vrban the fourth was begotten, ex patre ſutore veteramentario: that is, of a CoblerCobbler. That Iohn the 22. was filius veteramentarij, reſarcitoris videlicet ſotelarium. That is, the ſonne of …
    With rule
    … that Vrban the fourth was begotten, ex patre ſutore veteramentario: that is, of a CoblerCobbler. That Iohn the 22. was filius veteramentarij, reſarcitoris videlicet ſotelarium. That is, the ſonne of …

    Alexander Cooke · Pope Joan · p. 76 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Ministers are in too many Parishes of England? I will not imtate the Gloscester CoblerCobbler in gathering up their Faults; but only ask you if for Instance Mr. Corbet …
    With rule
    … Ministers are in too many Parishes of England? I will not imtate the Gloscester CoblerCobbler in gathering up their Faults; but only ask you if for Instance Mr. Corbet …

    Richard Baxter · Baxters Narrative of His Life and Times · p. 100 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … up above thousands in outward mercies. What a shame is it for a poore CoblerCobbler to doe more service for God, than it may be some of you doe …
    With rule
    … up above thousands in outward mercies. What a shame is it for a poore CoblerCobbler to doe more service for God, than it may be some of you doe …

    Edmund Calamy · Gods Free Mercy to England · p. 40 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … hear and obey them as well as they him: And now if How the CoblerCobbler were alive again, Cretensis and he would have no more Disputation and difference about …
    With rule
    … hear and obey them as well as they him: And now if How the CoblerCobbler were alive again, Cretensis and he would have no more Disputation and difference about …

    Thomas Edwards · Gangrena Part 1 and 2 · p. 51 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (24)

7 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 17 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Twenty-Seven Sermons A05143

  • Printed
    … and godly liuing is much regarded before god, in so much that this poore coblercobbler, doyng his duety diligently was made S. Anthonies fellow. So it appeareth that we …
    With rule
    … and godly liuing is much regarded before god, in so much that this poore coblercobbler, doyng his duety diligently was made S. Anthonies fellow. So it appeareth that we …

    Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 34 · Open in the reader

Display of Popish Practices A09918

  • Printed
    … aunſooered in thrée wordes (as hée was a man of fewe wordes) incontinente the coblercobbler exalting hymſelfe, as if with diſplayed wings, he woulde flye aboue the Cloudes, he …
    With rule
    … aunſooered in thrée wordes (as hée was a man of fewe wordes) incontinente the coblercobbler exalting hymſelfe, as if with diſplayed wings, he woulde flye aboue the Cloudes, he …

    Theodore Beza · Display of Popish Practices · p. 86 · Open in the reader

The Anatomy of Abuses A13086

  • Printed
    … Artificer, or Craftsman shoulde make any thing belōging to his art or science & a coblercobbler should presume to correct the same: would not ye other think him self abused …
    With rule
    … Artificer, or Craftsman shoulde make any thing belōging to his art or science & a coblercobbler should presume to correct the same: would not ye other think him self abused …

    Philip Stubbes · The Anatomy of Abuses · Open in the reader

A Defense of the Sabbath Day A16567

  • Printed
    … garments, yet it is altogether inſufferable, for any to play the botch er and coblercobbler with Gods lawes: the new peece wherewithall they would fill vp this rent, & make …
    With rule
    … garments, yet it is altogether inſufferable, for any to play the botch er and coblercobbler with Gods lawes: the new peece wherewithall they would fill vp this rent, & make …

    Theophilus Brabourne · A Defense of the Sabbath Day · p. 517 · Open in the reader

The Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy A56127

  • Printed
    … If there be never a wise man, make a water-bearer, a tinker, a coblercobbler, a slave, a page controller of the Mint: Make a meane Gentleman, a Groome …
    With rule
    … If there be never a wise man, make a water-bearer, a tinker, a coblercobbler, a slave, a page controller of the Mint: Make a meane Gentleman, a Groome …

    William Prynne · The Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy · p. 424 · Open in the reader

The Protestant School A64677

  • Printed
    cob-ler coblercobbler
    With rule
    cob-ler coblercobbler

    James Ussher · The Protestant School · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    ale, the coblercobbler loves
    With rule
    ale, the coblercobbler loves

    James Ussher · The Protestant School · p. 124 · Open in the reader