Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #25070 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

levyedlevied

ie for a final y, y for i: mercie → mercy, tyme → time.

Puritas changed it: 243 times in 80 works
Consistency: 95.2% (243 of 255)
Reach if approved: ~268 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: levied
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 255 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (243 changes in 80 works, 95.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 243)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… of the words insisted on, this their tendency, aime, and accommodation to the objection levyedlevied against the Righteousnesse of God in dealing with that people, this their rise, and …
With rule
… of the words insisted on, this their tendency, aime, and accommodation to the objection levyedlevied against the Righteousnesse of God in dealing with that people, this their rise, and …
John Owen · The Doctrine of the Saints Perseverance · p. 405 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Folio Volume) without any Parliament or legall Act of Parliament; ordering them to be levyedlevied, by fines, forfeitures, sales of the refusers reall and personal es…ates, imprisonments, soldiers …
With rule
… Folio Volume) without any Parliament or legall Act of Parliament; ordering them to be levyedlevied, by fines, forfeitures, sales of the refusers reall and personal es…ates, imprisonments, soldiers …
William Prynne · A Brief Register Calendar Part 1 · p. 442 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for the managing of the warre; in what manner and time it should be levyedlevied; to what hands it should be paid; and how disbursed: which appeares by all …
With rule
… for the managing of the warre; in what manner and time it should be levyedlevied; to what hands it should be paid; and how disbursed: which appeares by all …
William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Dominions; jealouſies raiſed and fomented betwixt the King and his people; a Popiſh Army levyedlevied in Ireland, and two Armies brought into the bowels of this Kingdom, to the …
With rule
… Dominions; jealouſies raiſed and fomented betwixt the King and his people; a Popiſh Army levyedlevied in Ireland, and two Armies brought into the bowels of this Kingdom, to the …
William Prynne · The Dissonant Harmony of Sacred Public Oaths · p. 7 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Servants, but ſo great is our wickedneſſe, that unleſſe a new ſupply be duly levyedlevied out for us daily, to the oppoſing the ſame, that for any baſe reward …
With rule
… Servants, but ſo great is our wickedneſſe, that unleſſe a new ſupply be duly levyedlevied out for us daily, to the oppoſing the ſame, that for any baſe reward …
Thomas Brightman · Four Sermons · p. 102 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Subſidy, Loan, Cuſtom, Impoſition, or other Aſſeſment whatſoever, ſhall or may be impoſed, or levyedlevied on the Subjects, without common conſent of the Lords and Commons in full Parliament …
With rule
… Subſidy, Loan, Cuſtom, Impoſition, or other Aſſeſment whatſoever, ſhall or may be impoſed, or levyedlevied on the Subjects, without common conſent of the Lords and Commons in full Parliament …
William Prynne · The True State of the Secluded Members · p. 49 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a strong Army; that the Queen of Scots was escaped out of Prison, and levyedlevied an armed Power; that the Northern men had raised a Rebellion; that there was …
With rule
… a strong Army; that the Queen of Scots was escaped out of Prison, and levyedlevied an armed Power; that the Northern men had raised a Rebellion; that there was …
Samuel Clarke · The History of the Life Reign and Death of Queen Elizabeth · p. 181 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Pikes] Hauriant Argent,] quartered, with their own Armes of the Percies. And for it levyedlevied a Fine, in the Court of King Richard the second.
With rule
… Pikes] Hauriant Argent,] quartered, with their own Armes of the Percies. And for it levyedlevied a Fine, in the Court of King Richard the second.
Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 222 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (12)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 9 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Lives and Deaths of Persons Surnamed Great A33329

Printed
… and they found Charles in a Posture fit to invade Italy: For he had LevyedLevied a goodly Army to suppress the rebellious Saxons, who (impatient of the French yoke …
With rule
… and they found Charles in a Posture fit to invade Italy: For he had LevyedLevied a goodly Army to suppress the rebellious Saxons, who (impatient of the French yoke …
Samuel Clarke · The Lives and Deaths of Persons Surnamed Great · p. 285 · Open in the reader

Nonconformity Not Inconsistent with Loyalty A47052

Printed
… of many Perſons by the aforeſaid Statute, much more then the Sums of Money LevyedLevied have been taken away, and the Goods Sold without making any Return of the …
With rule
… of many Perſons by the aforeſaid Statute, much more then the Sums of Money LevyedLevied have been taken away, and the Goods Sold without making any Return of the …
James Jones · Nonconformity Not Inconsistent with Loyalty · p. 18 · Open in the reader

Vindication of Ecclesiastical Volume 3 A70866

Printed
… imployed to redeem the revenues that are ſold impoſing a Quadruple penalty to be LevyedLevied as well upon Receivers, as thoſe that had gotten any aſsignation of the ſaid …
With rule
… imployed to redeem the revenues that are ſold impoſing a Quadruple penalty to be LevyedLevied as well upon Receivers, as thoſe that had gotten any aſsignation of the ſaid …
William Prynne · Vindication of Ecclesiastical Volume 3 · p. 322 · Open in the reader