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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8133 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

baggebag

Two or more mechanical changes in one word: sinne → sin, vnderstande → understand.

Puritas changed it
464 times in 265 works
Consistency
90.6% (464 of 512)
Reach if approved
~539 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: bag
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
513 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (464 changes in 265 works, 90.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 464)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    A baggebag sure seal'd: his word, Much better sav'd, then spill'd.
    With rule
    A baggebag sure seal'd: his word, Much better sav'd, then spill'd.

    Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 114 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    And shaketh out ther baggebag
    With rule
    And shaketh out ther baggebag

    John Bale · Answer to a Papistical Exhortation · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … hazard. I doubt not but some of them send the Scriptures before, trusse vp baggebag and baggage, make themselues in a readinesse, that they may flye from Citie to …
    With rule
    … hazard. I doubt not but some of them send the Scriptures before, trusse vp baggebag and baggage, make themselues in a readinesse, that they may flye from Citie to …

    Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 103 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … ought not to pray for the dead; I ſend them to my mans cloak-baggebag horſe, euen to my mans horſe, to learne their leſſon. This Aſſe-like reaſon …
    With rule
    … ought not to pray for the dead; I ſend them to my mans cloak-baggebag horſe, euen to my mans horſe, to learne their leſſon. This Aſſe-like reaſon …

    Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 336 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … of the ballances of iuſtice, belong to the Lord, all the weights of the baggebag, are his worke.
    With rule
    … of the ballances of iuſtice, belong to the Lord, all the weights of the baggebag, are his worke.

    Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · p. 135 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … a meere forgerie, and cannot be proued out of the word of God. The baggebag which Iudas carried, doeth prooue the contrary; for, he was (as it were) the …
    With rule
    … a meere forgerie, and cannot be proued out of the word of God. The baggebag which Iudas carried, doeth prooue the contrary; for, he was (as it were) the …

    William Perkins · A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses · p. 289 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … for destruction, was neuer truly regenerated. Thirdly, hee was alwaies couetous, he loued the baggebag better then the poore at first, and that made him loue it better then …
    With rule
    … for destruction, was neuer truly regenerated. Thirdly, hee was alwaies couetous, he loued the baggebag better then the poore at first, and that made him loue it better then …

    William Prynne · The Perpetuity of a Regenerate Mans Estate · p. 391 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … man: and a man without faith, is as an emptie veſſell, and as a baggebag of winde: his joye is light, and proceedes onely from the ſwarfe of the …
    With rule
    … man: and a man without faith, is as an emptie veſſell, and as a baggebag of winde: his joye is light, and proceedes onely from the ſwarfe of the …

    Robert Rollock · The Passion Resurrection and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ · p. 405 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (48)

29 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 19 are listed here. 19 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Gallants Burden A01573

  • Printed
    … by death, who sweepes all (Beggar and Prince) with his impartiall Beesome, into one BaggeBag: and when Iudgement comes, they are made odde and vnequall againe; for then, the …
    With rule
    … by death, who sweepes all (Beggar and Prince) with his impartiall Beesome, into one BaggeBag: and when Iudgement comes, they are made odde and vnequall againe; for then, the …

    Thomas Adams · The Gallants Burden · Open in the reader

A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin A02947

  • Printed
    BaggeBag wyth bokes deſcrybed. 45. b
    With rule
    BaggeBag wyth bokes deſcrybed. 45. b

    John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    BaggeBag worthye condempnacyon. 43. a
    With rule
    BaggeBag worthye condempnacyon. 43. a

    John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · Open in the reader

The White Devil A02959

  • Printed
    … holy Mountaine. Others blunder in their verdict, that I haue too violently baited the BaggeBag at the stake of Reproch, and all because I want it: I will not …
    With rule
    … holy Mountaine. Others blunder in their verdict, that I haue too violently baited the BaggeBag at the stake of Reproch, and all because I want it: I will not …

    Thomas Adams · The White Devil · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Giue me leaue, yet ere I leaue, to speake a word of the BaggeBag, first his meanes, and secondly his maintenance. I will ioyne them together, a fit …
    With rule
    Giue me leaue, yet ere I leaue, to speake a word of the BaggeBag, first his meanes, and secondly his maintenance. I will ioyne them together, a fit …

    Thomas Adams · The White Devil · p. 53 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … of his BaggeBag tie his heart faster then he ties the strings of his BaggeBag. He is a Iaylour to his Iaylour, a prisoner to his prisoner, he iayles …
    With rule
    … of his BaggeBag tie his heart faster then he ties the strings of his BaggeBag. He is a Iaylour to his Iaylour, a prisoner to his prisoner, he iayles …

    Thomas Adams · The White Devil · p. 53 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    2. The BaggeBag is most vsually giuen to the worst men: of all the Apostles, he that …
    With rule
    2. The BaggeBag is most vsually giuen to the worst men: of all the Apostles, he that …

    Thomas Adams · The White Devil · p. 55 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … their Quailes, then eaten them with such sawce. Iudas had better beene without the BaggeBag, then haue had the BaggeBag, and the Deuill with it.
    With rule
    … their Quailes, then eaten them with such sawce. Iudas had better beene without the BaggeBag, then haue had the BaggeBag, and the Deuill with it.

    Thomas Adams · The White Devil · p. 56 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

  • Printed
    … battaile. Gunnes seemed to them, for their hideous noyse, to be of the Deuill. BaggeBag-pipes they thought to be a liuing creature, that thus sang in variable accents …
    With rule
    … battaile. Gunnes seemed to them, for their hideous noyse, to be of the Deuill. BaggeBag-pipes they thought to be a liuing creature, that thus sang in variable accents …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 539 · Open in the reader

An ABC for Laymen A15621

  • Printed
    BaggeBag.
    With rule
    BaggeBag.

    Clergy George Wither · An ABC for Laymen · p. 10 · Open in the reader

The Last Battle of the Soul A16539

  • Printed
    … token of Gods mercies: If it had beene otherwise, Christ had neuer cast the BaggeBag vnto Iudas.
    With rule
    … token of Gods mercies: If it had beene otherwise, Christ had neuer cast the BaggeBag vnto Iudas.

    Zacharie Boyd · The Last Battle of the Soul · p. 49 · Open in the reader

An Expository Comment on 2 Corinthians 1 A30238

  • Printed
    … his faithfull ones. If there be any Judas, who followeth Chriſt becauſe of the BaggeBag; If there be any who believe in Chriſt, yet love the glory of men …
    With rule
    … his faithfull ones. If there be any Judas, who followeth Chriſt becauſe of the BaggeBag; If there be any who believe in Chriſt, yet love the glory of men …

    Anthony Burgess · An Expository Comment on 2 Corinthians 1 · p. 483 · Open in the reader

Articles Agreed Upon at the Surrender of Bristol A34506

  • Printed
    2. That there may be Carriages allowed and provided, to carry away their BaggeBag and Baggage, and ſicke and hurt Souldiers.
    With rule
    2. That there may be Carriages allowed and provided, to carry away their BaggeBag and Baggage, and ſicke and hurt Souldiers.

    Nathaniel Fiennes · Articles Agreed Upon at the Surrender of Bristol · p. 4 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … in the City, may if they pleaſe, with their Goods, Wives and Families, Horſes, BaggeBag and Ba…gage, have free Liberty to returne to their owne homes, or elſe …
    With rule
    … in the City, may if they pleaſe, with their Goods, Wives and Families, Horſes, BaggeBag and Ba…gage, have free Liberty to returne to their owne homes, or elſe …

    Nathaniel Fiennes · Articles Agreed Upon at the Surrender of Bristol · p. 4 · Open in the reader

The History of the Worthies of England A40672

  • Printed
    Willielmi BaggeBag
    With rule
    Willielmi BaggeBag

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 342 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Amos 4-9 A45333

  • Printed
    … by spending on the poor; and if Idolaters will lavish gold out of the BaggeBag, and spend their choysest treasures on Idols and Images, and if the Israelites could …
    With rule
    … by spending on the poor; and if Idolaters will lavish gold out of the BaggeBag, and spend their choysest treasures on Idols and Images, and if the Israelites could …

    Thomas Hall · Exposition of Amos 4-9 · p. 37 · Open in the reader

Relation of the Prosecution of Nathaniel Fiennes A91306

  • Printed
    … not ſo much as aſſaulted, much leſſe entred) even with their Colours diſplayed, their BaggeBag, Baggage, Armes, and reſtitution of their Priſoners taken by the Enemy; which conditions were …
    With rule
    … not ſo much as aſſaulted, much leſſe entred) even with their Colours diſplayed, their BaggeBag, Baggage, Armes, and reſtitution of their Priſoners taken by the Enemy; which conditions were …

    William Prynne · Relation of the Prosecution of Nathaniel Fiennes · p. 90 · Open in the reader

Englands Parliamentary Chronicle A95892

  • Printed
    … Armes at all againſt him. All Montroſſes Carriages and Ammunition were taken, all his BaggeBag and Baggage, and above 4000 Armes.
    With rule
    … Armes at all againſt him. All Montroſſes Carriages and Ammunition were taken, all his BaggeBag and Baggage, and above 4000 Armes.

    John Vicars · Englands Parliamentary Chronicle · p. 272 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … divers Coaches with Gentry, and their Wives and many the day before with Carriages BaggeBag and Baggage, but the maine body marched not forth untill about two in the …
    With rule
    … divers Coaches with Gentry, and their Wives and many the day before with Carriages BaggeBag and Baggage, but the maine body marched not forth untill about two in the …

    John Vicars · Englands Parliamentary Chronicle · p. 446 · Open in the reader