Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9548 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

maryesmary's

Apostrophes added or expanded, mostly possessives: gods → god's. Approve one at a time: some places are plurals.

Puritas changed it: 220 times in 99 works
Consistency: 99.1% (220 of 222)
Reach if approved: ~233 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: mary's
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 222 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (220 changes in 99 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 220)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the iuste possessors. Which one thinge is an euident testimonie, howe vnlike our mischeuous MaryesMary's be vnto Debora, vnder whome were strangiers chased owt of Israel, God so raising …
With rule
… the iuste possessors. Which one thinge is an euident testimonie, howe vnlike our mischeuous MaryesMary's be vnto Debora, vnder whome were strangiers chased owt of Israel, God so raising …
John Knox · The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women · Open in the reader
Printed
… Articles, Sermons, and printed Bookes, as the Papists and Popish Prelates did in Queen MaryesMary's dayes: who upon the change of Religion & setting up of Popery, made this their …
With rule
… Articles, Sermons, and printed Bookes, as the Papists and Popish Prelates did in Queen MaryesMary's dayes: who upon the change of Religion & setting up of Popery, made this their …
William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 46 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Lincolne, Doctor Harley Bishop of Hereford, with others, in the entrance of Queene MaryesMary's raigne.
With rule
… of Lincolne, Doctor Harley Bishop of Hereford, with others, in the entrance of Queene MaryesMary's raigne.
Andrew Willet · An Antilogy · p. 66 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſayd of them whych was not to be founde in them euen in Queenes MaryesMary's tyme / when there was yet ſome one almoſte in euerye Churche / whych for feare …
With rule
… ſayd of them whych was not to be founde in them euen in Queenes MaryesMary's tyme / when there was yet ſome one almoſte in euerye Churche / whych for feare …
Thomas Cartwright · A Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift · p. 203 · Open in the reader
Printed
… back, the last Monke that was seen in such habit in England till Queen MaryesMary's dayes.
With rule
… back, the last Monke that was seen in such habit in England till Queen MaryesMary's dayes.
Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 52 · Open in the reader
Printed
… shillings. (279 30 for Impunity, read Impurity. 6 344 15 for Briston, read Bruiton. 369 21 for St. Iohns, read St. MaryesMary's. 7 388 15 for the second, read the sixth. 8 14 39 for Grandchild to Edward the fourth, read great …
With rule
… shillings. (279 30 for Impunity, read Impurity. 6 344 15 for Briston, read Bruiton. 369 21 for St. Iohns, read St. MaryesMary's. 7 388 15 for the second, read the sixth. 8 14 39 for Grandchild to Edward the fourth, read great …
Thomas Fuller · The Appeal of Injured Innocence · Open in the reader
Printed
… and indignation againſt their inſolences, in Iune and Iuly, 1631. in their Sermons at S^r. MaryesMary's uſed ſome bold expreſſions againſt the Arminians and their errors, under the Titles of …
With rule
… and indignation againſt their inſolences, in Iune and Iuly, 1631. in their Sermons at S^r. MaryesMary's uſed ſome bold expreſſions againſt the Arminians and their errors, under the Titles of …
William Prynne · Canterburys Doom · p. 174 · Open in the reader
Printed
Q. MaryesMary's ſpeciall hate to Cranmer 200
With rule
Q. MaryesMary's ſpeciall hate to Cranmer 200
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.