Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4007 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

byshopsbishops

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

Puritas changed it: 1,140 times in 138 works
Consistency: 100% (1,140 of 1,140)
Reach if approved: ~1,198 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: bishops
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,140 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,140 changes in 138 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,140)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… but downe with them. But within a whyle after, the same Abbottes were made byshopsbishops as there be some of them yet a lyue to saue and redeme theyr …
With rule
… but downe with them. But within a whyle after, the same Abbottes were made byshopsbishops as there be some of them yet a lyue to saue and redeme theyr …
Hugh Latimer · The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader
Printed
… and feders bothe in worde & deede. Graunte agayne, that the parishners may reuerence the byshopsbishops & other spirituall ministers, geuing them no lesse honour then the childe geueth the father …
With rule
… and feders bothe in worde & deede. Graunte agayne, that the parishners may reuerence the byshopsbishops & other spirituall ministers, geuing them no lesse honour then the childe geueth the father …
Thomas Becon · The Flower of Godly Prayers · p. lix · Open in the reader
Printed
The dutie of ByshopsBishops and Ministers of Gods worde.
With rule
The dutie of ByshopsBishops and Ministers of Gods worde.
Thomas Becon · The Principles of Christian Religion · Open in the reader
Printed
… theſe be in the Church of England. Of the authoritie, power, and iuriſdiction of ByſhopsBishops, much hath beene ſayd of many, and not by theſe anſwered, and therefore needleſſe …
With rule
… theſe be in the Church of England. Of the authoritie, power, and iuriſdiction of ByſhopsBishops, much hath beene ſayd of many, and not by theſe anſwered, and therefore needleſſe …
Richard Bernard · Plain Evidences the Church of England is Apostolical · p. 260 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and Ierusalem, either themselves in person, or by their deputies, with many Metropolitanes and ByshopsBishops of Greece of Asia, of Iberia, and other countries of the East. Whose creditt …
With rule
… and Ierusalem, either themselves in person, or by their deputies, with many Metropolitanes and ByshopsBishops of Greece of Asia, of Iberia, and other countries of the East. Whose creditt …
John Rainolds · Defense of Divorce and Remarriage · p. 44 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Well, I wyll say no more heereof, but I pray God, that the reuerend ByshopsBishops (to whome God hath committed the dispensacion of his word, and the scepter and …
With rule
… Well, I wyll say no more heereof, but I pray God, that the reuerend ByshopsBishops (to whome God hath committed the dispensacion of his word, and the scepter and …
Philip Stubbes · A Motive to Good Works · p. 81 · Open in the reader
Printed
… may haue both accusers and witnesses of their crime, except the authoryty of the ByshopsBishops ordeined in Africa seemeth to a few desperate and wicked fellowes to bee lesse …
With rule
… may haue both accusers and witnesses of their crime, except the authoryty of the ByshopsBishops ordeined in Africa seemeth to a few desperate and wicked fellowes to bee lesse …
William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 268 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Apostles by authorite of hys cōmission, ordayned in euery citye receyuyng hys worde, preachynge byshopsbishops, elders, pastours, deacons, and other godly ministers to vpholde and increase the christen religion …
With rule
… Apostles by authorite of hys cōmission, ordayned in euery citye receyuyng hys worde, preachynge byshopsbishops, elders, pastours, deacons, and other godly ministers to vpholde and increase the christen religion …
John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · p. cix · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.