Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9607 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

whitakerswhitaker's

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

Puritas changed it: 260 times in 114 works
Consistency: 95.5% (260 of 272)
Reach if approved: ~286 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 272 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (260 changes in 114 works, 95.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 260)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Scriptures, and by the ancient Fathers of the best and purest times. Iewel, Fulk, WhitakersWhitaker's, Rainolds, Perkins, and manie other, who now sleep in Christ, haue left behinde them …
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… Scriptures, and by the ancient Fathers of the best and purest times. Iewel, Fulk, WhitakersWhitaker's, Rainolds, Perkins, and manie other, who now sleep in Christ, haue left behinde them …
William Crashaw · Sermon Preached 14 February 1607 · p. 42 · Open in the reader
Printed
WhitakersWhitaker's 18 Sermons.
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WhitakersWhitaker's 18 Sermons.
Edward Bury · A Sovereign Antidote Against the Fear of Death · Open in the reader
Printed
… thinke, themselves bound to give an account of them by the Scripture. So D^r WhitakersWhitaker's speaks also the same in that question and controversie of the perfection of the …
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… thinke, themselves bound to give an account of them by the Scripture. So D^r WhitakersWhitaker's speaks also the same in that question and controversie of the perfection of the …
Thomas Edwards · Full Answer to Apologetical Narration · p. 68 · Open in the reader
Printed
… doe the like, morning and euening, not to goe farre for examples abroad. Doctor WhitakersWhitaker's that great light of Cambridge, vſed euer one praier, before and after his Lectures …
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… doe the like, morning and euening, not to goe farre for examples abroad. Doctor WhitakersWhitaker's that great light of Cambridge, vſed euer one praier, before and after his Lectures …
Robert Hill · The Pathway to Prayer and Piety · p. 124 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be ouer-long, and ſo proue tedious. But let the deſirous Reader peruſe D. WhitakersWhitaker's De traditionibus.
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… be ouer-long, and ſo proue tedious. But let the deſirous Reader peruſe D. WhitakersWhitaker's De traditionibus.
Richard Bernard · Reims Against Rome · p. 61 · Open in the reader
Printed
… worthie ſeruant of Ieſus Chriſt, and famous light of the Church of Chriſt, Doctor WhitakersWhitaker's, againſt two ſworne ſlaues of Antichriſt, Campian and Dureus, and I brought them by …
With rule
… worthie ſeruant of Ieſus Chriſt, and famous light of the Church of Chriſt, Doctor WhitakersWhitaker's, againſt two ſworne ſlaues of Antichriſt, Campian and Dureus, and I brought them by …
Richard Stock · The Doctrine and Use of Repentance · Open in the reader
Printed
… other three points, they are not first of my deuising: that worthie professor Master WhitakersWhitaker's, doth so collect Bellarmines sense, contr. 1. quaest. 5. cap. 3. And it seemeth to be Bellarmines …
With rule
… other three points, they are not first of my deuising: that worthie professor Master WhitakersWhitaker's, doth so collect Bellarmines sense, contr. 1. quaest. 5. cap. 3. And it seemeth to be Bellarmines …
Andrew Willet · Discovery of a False Detection · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that a thing is in doing, which alreadie done is ſealed and confirmed, ſayth WhitakersWhitaker's. Fourthly, the nature of the gift is to be conſidered. Any man will behaue …
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… that a thing is in doing, which alreadie done is ſealed and confirmed, ſayth WhitakersWhitaker's. Fourthly, the nature of the gift is to be conſidered. Any man will behaue …
David Calderwood · A Dispute Upon Communicating at our Confused Communions · p. 53 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (12)

12 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 6 are listed here. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Answer to Campian the Jesuit A15057

Printed
… LATINE TONGVE BY THE REVEREND AND faithfull ſeruant of Chriſt and his Church, WILLIAM WHITAKERSWHITAKER'S, Doctor in Diuinitie, and the Kings Profeſſor and publike Reader of Diuinitie in the …
With rule
… LATINE TONGVE BY THE REVEREND AND faithfull ſeruant of Chriſt and his Church, WILLIAM WHITAKERSWHITAKER'S, Doctor in Diuinitie, and the Kings Profeſſor and publike Reader of Diuinitie in the …
William Whitaker · Answer to Campian the Jesuit · Open in the reader
Printed
WILLIAM WHITAKERSWHITAKER'S. The anſwere to the ſecond Reaſon.
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WILLIAM WHITAKERSWHITAKER'S. The anſwere to the ſecond Reaſon.
William Whitaker · Answer to Campian the Jesuit · p. 58 · Open in the reader
Printed
WILLIAM WHITAKERSWHITAKER'S. The anſwere to the fourth Reaſon.
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WILLIAM WHITAKERSWHITAKER'S. The anſwere to the fourth Reaſon.
William Whitaker · Answer to Campian the Jesuit · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
WILLIAM WHITAKERSWHITAKER'S. The anſwere to the ſixth Reaſon, which is the foundation of the Fathers.
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WILLIAM WHITAKERSWHITAKER'S. The anſwere to the ſixth Reaſon, which is the foundation of the Fathers.
William Whitaker · Answer to Campian the Jesuit · p. 149 · Open in the reader
Printed
WILLIAM WHITAKERSWHITAKER'S. The anſwere to the eighth Reaſon, which is the Paradoxes of our aduerſaries.
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WILLIAM WHITAKERSWHITAKER'S. The anſwere to the eighth Reaſon, which is the Paradoxes of our aduerſaries.
William Whitaker · Answer to Campian the Jesuit · p. 191 · Open in the reader

The Four Principal Pillars of Papistry A15431

Printed
… for we will giue you your titles) though that worthie man, be but plaine whitakerswhitaker's with you, that you can finde in your hart to giue vs the vpper …
With rule
… for we will giue you your titles) though that worthie man, be but plaine whitakerswhitaker's with you, that you can finde in your hart to giue vs the vpper …
Andrew Willet · The Four Principal Pillars of Papistry · p. 9 · Open in the reader