Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8807 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

seuenteeneseventeen

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

Puritas changed it: 106 times in 55 works
Consistency: 93.8% (106 of 113)
Reach if approved: ~119 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: seventeen
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 113 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (106 changes in 55 works, 93.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 106)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… myne accompt, endyng the 410. in the firſt of Nebucadnezar: ſo making his 18. to be ſeuenteeneseventeen more, that is 427. for the Temples ancientie. And this authoritie of his daſheth all …
With rule
… myne accompt, endyng the 410. in the firſt of Nebucadnezar: ſo making his 18. to be ſeuenteeneseventeen more, that is 427. for the Temples ancientie. And this authoritie of his daſheth all …
Hugh Broughton · Order of the World · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a penalty: and maſters are bound to teach children, and ſeruants, from ſeuen to ſeuenteeneseventeen therein. Heere Maſters are inſtructed, not in the vſe of the Bow onely, but …
With rule
… a penalty: and maſters are bound to teach children, and ſeruants, from ſeuen to ſeuenteeneseventeen therein. Heere Maſters are inſtructed, not in the vſe of the Bow onely, but …
John Davenport · A Royal Edict for Military Exercises · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… were in ſuffering the paines. There were in this perſecutiō within thirtie daies aboue ſeuenteeneseventeen thouſand Chriſtians killed moſt ſpitefully. But Conſtantine the good Emperour became a Chriſtian, ſet …
With rule
… were in ſuffering the paines. There were in this perſecutiō within thirtie daies aboue ſeuenteeneseventeen thouſand Chriſtians killed moſt ſpitefully. But Conſtantine the good Emperour became a Chriſtian, ſet …
Andrew Kingsmill · For the Troubled in Mind or Afflicted in Body · Open in the reader
Printed
THE PROTESTANTS APOLOGIE, written by Brerely, reprinted and ſold for ſeuenteeneseventeen ſhillings, and might bee afforded for ſix ſhillings, or leſſe.
With rule
THE PROTESTANTS APOLOGIE, written by Brerely, reprinted and ſold for ſeuenteeneseventeen ſhillings, and might bee afforded for ſix ſhillings, or leſſe.
John Gee · The Foot out of the Snare · p. 92 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thouſands of Martyrs: but theſe, innumerable multitudes. And to the purpoſe, Damaſus numbreth vp ſeuenteeneseventeen thouſand Chriſtians, that were ſlaine in one month vnder Diocleſian. And Bellarmine reckoneth amongſt …
With rule
… thouſands of Martyrs: but theſe, innumerable multitudes. And to the purpoſe, Damaſus numbreth vp ſeuenteeneseventeen thouſand Chriſtians, that were ſlaine in one month vnder Diocleſian. And Bellarmine reckoneth amongſt …
Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 66 · Open in the reader
Printed
… dayes. And though it be true that Phisitions affirme, that a man may liue seuenteeneseventeen dayes without meate, yet he cannot endure longer, as twentie or thirtie dayes. Now …
With rule
… dayes. And though it be true that Phisitions affirme, that a man may liue seuenteeneseventeen dayes without meate, yet he cannot endure longer, as twentie or thirtie dayes. Now …
William Perkins · Satans Sophistry Answered · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for one hundreth yeares, no not beyonde the yeare one thouſand fiue hundreth and ſeuenteeneseventeen, we affirme that both in the one, and in the other, herein you write …
With rule
… for one hundreth yeares, no not beyonde the yeare one thouſand fiue hundreth and ſeuenteeneseventeen, we affirme that both in the one, and in the other, herein you write …
Thomas Sparke · Answer to John De Albines · p. 54 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Aanh found out mules: hote waters, saith the Latine. Genes. 37. 2. Ioseph was septendecim annorum, seuenteeneseventeen yeere old: sedecim, 16. yeere old, say they. Diuers hundred of such places might bee …
With rule
… Aanh found out mules: hote waters, saith the Latine. Genes. 37. 2. Ioseph was septendecim annorum, seuenteeneseventeen yeere old: sedecim, 16. yeere old, say they. Diuers hundred of such places might bee …
Andrew Willet · Discovery of a False Detection · p. 89 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Antichrist the Pope of Rome A06098

Printed
2. SeuenteeneSeventeen thouſand reported by Damaſus to haue beene ſlaine vnder Diocleſian in one moneth, and …
With rule
2. SeuenteeneSeventeen thouſand reported by Damaſus to haue beene ſlaine vnder Diocleſian in one moneth, and …
Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 213 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

Printed
… which the Alcoran came sliding from heauen. Sixteene, are the legions of the Cherubims. SeuenteeneSeventeen, are the names of GOD betweene the bottome of the earth and hell, which …
With rule
… which the Alcoran came sliding from heauen. Sixteene, are the legions of the Cherubims. SeuenteeneSeventeen, are the names of GOD betweene the bottome of the earth and hell, which …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 215 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Citie and suppliants; the like fate befalling the first and last Queenes of Carthage. SeuenteeneSeventeen dayes together did Carthage burne, seuen hundred yeares after the first building.
With rule
… Citie and suppliants; the like fate befalling the first and last Queenes of Carthage. SeuenteeneSeventeen dayes together did Carthage burne, seuen hundred yeares after the first building.
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 498 · Open in the reader