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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #7174 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

chancellchancel

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
277 times in 92 works
Consistency
90.8% (277 of 305)
Reach if approved
~320 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: chancel
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
305 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (277 changes in 92 works, 90.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 277)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … his body, and the skirts of his garments, ſo holineſſe ſtayeth not in the ChancellChancel as the head, but deſcendeth to the whole body of the Church and the …
    With rule
    … his body, and the skirts of his garments, ſo holineſſe ſtayeth not in the ChancellChancel as the head, but deſcendeth to the whole body of the Church and the …

    Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 831 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … an apish Imitation of the Leviticall Priest is in the Ministers going into the ChancellChancel; praying with his face turned from the people, as though there were some dissention …
    With rule
    … an apish Imitation of the Leviticall Priest is in the Ministers going into the ChancellChancel; praying with his face turned from the people, as though there were some dissention …

    Alexander Leighton · Appeal to the Parliament · p. 316 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … other Ecclesiasticall Censures by their Ordinary:) but in the body of the Church or ChancellChancel, so as the Communicants may place themselves round about them. Men usually sit round …
    With rule
    … other Ecclesiasticall Censures by their Ordinary:) but in the body of the Church or ChancellChancel, so as the Communicants may place themselves round about them. Men usually sit round …

    William Prynne · Lame Giles Halting · p. 16 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    Why is the Altar lifted vp to the top of the Sanctuary or ChancellChancel, and the Font not admitted ſo much as to the bottome? It is not …
    With rule
    Why is the Altar lifted vp to the top of the Sanctuary or ChancellChancel, and the Font not admitted ſo much as to the bottome? It is not …

    Peter Smart · The Vanity and Downfall of Superstitious Popish Ceremonies · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … a man to vse, at his entrance into the Church, and another for the ChancellChancel. Thus by his Jgnis fatuus ▪ Deuotion he will leade simple m…n through a …
    With rule
    … a man to vse, at his entrance into the Church, and another for the ChancellChancel. Thus by his Jgnis fatuus ▪ Deuotion he will leade simple m…n through a …

    Henry Burton · A Trial of Private Devotions · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … in another place, he neglected that, and goes to the Eaſt end of the ChancellChancel, and boweth himſelf, though his back was upon the table. And you ſhall obſerve …
    With rule
    … in another place, he neglected that, and goes to the Eaſt end of the ChancellChancel, and boweth himſelf, though his back was upon the table. And you ſhall obſerve …

    Jeremiah Burroughs · An Exposition of Hosea 1-3 · p. 402 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … were so true to their Principles, that I meet with this epitaph in the ChancellChancel of St. Sidwells.
    With rule
    … were so true to their Principles, that I meet with this epitaph in the ChancellChancel of St. Sidwells.

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 273 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Temple was at the Weſt end of it: on the contrary with us, the ChancellChancel is ever towards the Eaſt; which was done either in oppoſition to the Jews …
    With rule
    … Temple was at the Weſt end of it: on the contrary with us, the ChancellChancel is ever towards the Eaſt; which was done either in oppoſition to the Jews …

    Samuel Mather · The Figures or Types of Christ · p. 440 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (28)

10 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 18 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture A00593

  • Printed
    … embleme of the body of the Church, and our ſoule of the queere or chancellchancel, wherein God is, or ſhould be worſhipped day and night? The Temple of God …
    With rule
    … embleme of the body of the Church, and our ſoule of the queere or chancellchancel, wherein God is, or ſhould be worſhipped day and night? The Temple of God …

    Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 225 · Open in the reader

A Quench-Coal A10197

  • Printed
    … cloath upon it shall stand IN THE BODY OF THE CHURCH, OR IN THE CHANCELLCHANCEL where morninge prayer and eveninge prayer bee appointed to be said. And the preist …
    With rule
    … cloath upon it shall stand IN THE BODY OF THE CHURCH, OR IN THE CHANCELLCHANCEL where morninge prayer and eveninge prayer bee appointed to be said. And the preist …

    William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 1 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … time the same shalbee placed in so good sort with in THE CHURCH OR CHANCELLCHANCEL, as thereby the Minister maye bee the more conveniently heard of the Communicants in …
    With rule
    … time the same shalbee placed in so good sort with in THE CHURCH OR CHANCELLCHANCEL, as thereby the Minister maye bee the more conveniently heard of the Communicants in …

    William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 2 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … yeare of King Edwards Raigne; Commaunded the Vicar to sett the Table WITHOUT THE CHANCELLCHANCEL againe, neere the place where it stood before for the ministration of the Communion …
    With rule
    … yeare of King Edwards Raigne; Commaunded the Vicar to sett the Table WITHOUT THE CHANCELLCHANCEL againe, neere the place where it stood before for the ministration of the Communion …

    William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 46 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … before the Communion and 82. Canon, saye, with in the body of the Church or chancellchancel, which makes me suspect, that Church was omitted in the printing of these Injunctions …
    With rule
    … before the Communion and 82. Canon, saye, with in the body of the Church or chancellchancel, which makes me suspect, that Church was omitted in the printing of these Injunctions …

    William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 165 · Open in the reader

Conference Between Rainolds and Hart A10345

  • Printed
    … diuision of the sanctuarie and court of the temple: so with you, by the chancellchancel and body of the church. As with them he burned incense at the altar …
    With rule
    … diuision of the sanctuarie and court of the temple: so with you, by the chancellchancel and body of the church. As with them he burned incense at the altar …

    John Rainolds · Conference Between Rainolds and Hart · p. 566 · Open in the reader

A Pattern of True Prayer A12554

  • Printed
    … then the Church, and the high altar more holy than the reſt of the chancellchancel. True it is indeed, that when the Church of God is aſſembled in the …
    With rule
    … then the Church, and the high altar more holy than the reſt of the chancellchancel. True it is indeed, that when the Church of God is aſſembled in the …

    John Smyth · A Pattern of True Prayer · p. 7 · Open in the reader

The Altar of Damascus A17571

  • Printed
    … their holy place for the Priest, and He hath a peculiar dore to this chancellchancel, through which none might passe but himselfe, saith Borrow, For the ch…piters and …
    With rule
    … their holy place for the Priest, and He hath a peculiar dore to this chancellchancel, through which none might passe but himselfe, saith Borrow, For the ch…piters and …

    David Calderwood · The Altar of Damascus · p. 190 · Open in the reader

Canterburys Doom A56144

  • Printed
    … betook himſelfe, to ſit under a cloath of State in an Iſle of the chancellchancel neare the Communion Table, and taking a written book in his hand, (in imitation …
    With rule
    … betook himſelfe, to ſit under a cloath of State in an Iſle of the chancellchancel neare the Communion Table, and taking a written book in his hand, (in imitation …

    William Prynne · Canterburys Doom · p. 114 · Open in the reader

The Life of William Archbishop of Canterbury Examined A67904

  • Printed
    … those elements, and all that was neere them, both the altar, bason, chalice, and chancellchancel to bee urged; many new ceremonies, which for many yeares had beene out of …
    With rule
    … those elements, and all that was neere them, both the altar, bason, chalice, and chancellchancel to bee urged; many new ceremonies, which for many yeares had beene out of …

    Robert Baillie · The Life of William Archbishop of Canterbury Examined · p. 31 · Open in the reader