Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #3941 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ymagesimages

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

Puritas changed it: 324 times in 50 works
Consistency: 98.7% (324 of 328)
Reach if approved: ~345 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: images
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 328 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (324 changes in 50 works, 98.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 324)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… a chaplayne whych popyshly mynystred in hys hyred benefyce. Secōdly by conueyaunce of certen ymagesimages in hope of a change; And thirdlye in iudgyng it a fowle heresye to …
With rule
… a chaplayne whych popyshly mynystred in hys hyred benefyce. Secōdly by conueyaunce of certen ymagesimages in hope of a change; And thirdlye in iudgyng it a fowle heresye to …
John Bale · An Expostulation Against the Blasphemies of a Frantic Papist · Open in the reader
Printed
… god is but a lytell worke in his eyes, in comparyſon of theſe great ymagesimages, ymagened by his owne workes, in the whiche ꝑaduenture he prayſeth hym ſelfe more …
With rule
… god is but a lytell worke in his eyes, in comparyſon of theſe great ymagesimages, ymagened by his owne workes, in the whiche ꝑaduenture he prayſeth hym ſelfe more …
Martin Luther · Treatise of Good Works · Open in the reader
Printed
… Gregory going about to excuse the matter, although in deede that holye man alloweth ymagesimages and not the worshypping of thē. But the commaundement of God, which plainly forbiddeth …
With rule
… Gregory going about to excuse the matter, although in deede that holye man alloweth ymagesimages and not the worshypping of thē. But the commaundement of God, which plainly forbiddeth …
Thomas Becon · The Relics of Rome · Open in the reader
Printed
… taken awaye / bycauſe he fereth that thoſe weake perſones / which now ſuperſticiouſly do worſhippe / ymagesimages / wolde be offended with the puttinge downe of ymagesimages: this man douteleſſe / whyles he …
With rule
… taken awaye / bycauſe he fereth that thoſe weake perſones / which now ſuperſticiouſly do worſhippe / ymagesimages / wolde be offended with the puttinge downe of ymagesimages: this man douteleſſe / whyles he …
Martin Bucer · Images Not to be Suffered in Churches · Open in the reader
Printed
… with a good wyl left he hys own natyue countre, all ydols and all ymagesimages: all myſfortune honger & miſerye toke he paciently: he was not harde agagynſt Loth hys …
With rule
… with a good wyl left he hys own natyue countre, all ydols and all ymagesimages: all myſfortune honger & miſerye toke he paciently: he was not harde agagynſt Loth hys …
Henrich Bullinger · The Old Faith an Evident Probation out of the Holy Scripture · Open in the reader
Printed
Again they that be greued with takyng downe of ymagesimages out of the churches, will parchaunce say. We worshipped not y^e image but the …
With rule
Again they that be greued with takyng downe of ymagesimages out of the churches, will parchaunce say. We worshipped not y^e image but the …
Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Catechism for Children · Open in the reader
Printed
… or bowynge of the heade, or vaylynge of the bonet, or ſettynge vp of ymagesimages or pictures, wyth buyldynge of temples or chappels, the which wycked men can do …
With rule
… or bowynge of the heade, or vaylynge of the bonet, or ſettynge vp of ymagesimages or pictures, wyth buyldynge of temples or chappels, the which wycked men can do …
Martin Luther · Exposition of Marys Magnificat · Open in the reader
Printed
… with thanksgiuing, of matrimony not free, nor graū ted indifferently to al men, of ymagesimages setvp to bee woorshipped? or out of what puddle were plumped first their proude …
With rule
… with thanksgiuing, of matrimony not free, nor graū ted indifferently to al men, of ymagesimages setvp to bee woorshipped? or out of what puddle were plumped first their proude …
John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · p. 51 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

2 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.

Answer to Epistle by Renat Benedict A00685

Printed
… not Christe him selfe frome you, haue ye not expelled him first in his YmagesImages? and thereafter in the euchariste and masse. And last of all in exponing the …
With rule
… not Christe him selfe frome you, haue ye not expelled him first in his YmagesImages? and thereafter in the euchariste and masse. And last of all in exponing the …
David Fergusson · Answer to Epistle by Renat Benedict · Open in the reader

The Vocation of John Bale to the Bishopric A68157

Printed
… sett vp the golden calues in Samaria / or mayntayne the popysh religyon agayne / in YmagesImages / Aulters / ydle ceremonyes / and blasphemouse supersticions. Yet doubt I it not / but a faytfull …
With rule
… sett vp the golden calues in Samaria / or mayntayne the popysh religyon agayne / in YmagesImages / Aulters / ydle ceremonyes / and blasphemouse supersticions. Yet doubt I it not / but a faytfull …
John Bale · The Vocation of John Bale to the Bishopric · Open in the reader