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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #3939 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

byshopbishop

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

Puritas changed it
1,746 times in 164 works
Consistency
99.9% (1,746 of 1,747)
Reach if approved
~1,836 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: bishop
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,747 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,746 changes in 164 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,746)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the worſe, euen lyke as the commons in theſe dayes, being deliuered from ye ByſhopBishop of Rome his lawes and bondage. All men deſire to haue tyranny taken away …
    With rule
    … the worſe, euen lyke as the commons in theſe dayes, being deliuered from ye ByſhopBishop of Rome his lawes and bondage. All men deſire to haue tyranny taken away …

    Martin Luther · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · p. 139 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … saynt Austē is gone and a sayncte. For if he were now alyue & a ByshopBishop agayne, as he was in times paste, and shulde go on visitacion thorow out …
    With rule
    … saynt Austē is gone and a sayncte. For if he were now alyue & a ByshopBishop agayne, as he was in times paste, and shulde go on visitacion thorow out …

    Thomas Becon · An Invective Against Swearing · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … to his Haruest, gleaning and raking what hee could, writing his Letters to euery ByshopBishop or Arch-Deacon, for procurations to beare his charges, and withall, to be spéedily …
    With rule
    … to his Haruest, gleaning and raking what hee could, writing his Letters to euery ByshopBishop or Arch-Deacon, for procurations to beare his charges, and withall, to be spéedily …

    John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 81 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … I hearken to speeches, when I see deedes? Certes if he bee a Christian byshopbishop as he requireth to be accompted, his offence is so much the more haynous …
    With rule
    … I hearken to speeches, when I see deedes? Certes if he bee a Christian byshopbishop as he requireth to be accompted, his offence is so much the more haynous …

    John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … churches haue in Englande, for that purpoſe reade the Panegyricall oration made before Paulinus byſhopbishop of Tyrus. Euſeb. lib. 10. cap. 4. In which is deſcribed the faſhion of that church …
    With rule
    … churches haue in Englande, for that purpoſe reade the Panegyricall oration made before Paulinus byſhopbishop of Tyrus. Euſeb. lib. 10. cap. 4. In which is deſcribed the faſhion of that church …

    William Fulke · Answer to the Proud Challenge of a Counterset Catholic · p. 53 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … with Rycharde ye Bysshop of London. Henrye the Bysshop of Vvynchestre / and Benet the ByshopBishop of Bangor / he called in vnto him his counsell and his offycers / with dyuerse …
    With rule
    … with Rycharde ye Bysshop of London. Henrye the Bysshop of Vvynchestre / and Benet the ByshopBishop of Bangor / he called in vnto him his counsell and his offycers / with dyuerse …

    John Bale · Brief Chronicle Concerning Examination and Death of John Oldcastle · p. 24 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … which they ought to doe: that done, they shal be sent vnto the reuerend▪ ByshopBishop of the dioces or his Chauncellour or officiall, to make the sayd Abiuration and …
    With rule
    … which they ought to doe: that done, they shal be sent vnto the reuerend▪ ByshopBishop of the dioces or his Chauncellour or officiall, to make the sayd Abiuration and …

    François Hotman · The Furious Outrages of France and the Horrible Slaughter · p. CXXIIII · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … paye hym his duti, and if he be such a one cōplaine to the ByshopBishop. We haue complayned to the ordinarye, and he is as negligent as he. Complayne …
    With rule
    … paye hym his duti, and if he be such a one cōplaine to the ByshopBishop. We haue complayned to the ordinarye, and he is as negligent as he. Complayne …

    Hugh Latimer · Sermon 9 October 1550 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.