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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4304 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

hytherhither

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

Puritas changed it
155 times in 70 works
Consistency
97.4% (155 of 159)
Reach if approved
~167 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: hither
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
159 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (155 changes in 70 works, 97.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 155)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … ours) or prouince / but off a particular church. Which treatiſe I would haue drawne hytherhither / as vnto the proper place / but that theſe places are ſo intangled with the …
    With rule
    … ours) or prouince / but off a particular church. Which treatiſe I would haue drawne hytherhither / as vnto the proper place / but that theſe places are ſo intangled with the …

    Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 · p. CCXCIX · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … in the primatiue church of the faythfull Bryttayues, fyrste planted by them ihat were hytherhither sente by Christes Apostles, aud fashyoned after the perfight rules of the .vii. churches …
    With rule
    … in the primatiue church of the faythfull Bryttayues, fyrste planted by them ihat were hytherhither sente by Christes Apostles, aud fashyoned after the perfight rules of the .vii. churches …

    John Bale · An Expostulation Against the Blasphemies of a Frantic Papist · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … some pleasaunt communication, after let vs go home, euen as good as we came hytherhither, that is right begotten thildren of the world, & vtterly worldlynges. And while we lyue …
    With rule
    … some pleasaunt communication, after let vs go home, euen as good as we came hytherhither, that is right begotten thildren of the world, & vtterly worldlynges. And while we lyue …

    Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 12 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    Nowe neyghbours seynge that hytherhither to ye haue ben no forgetful hearers, but obsequious followers and diligente doers of …
    With rule
    Nowe neyghbours seynge that hytherhither to ye haue ben no forgetful hearers, but obsequious followers and diligente doers of …

    Thomas Becon · A Pleasant New Nosegay · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … timorous & fearfull. Alſo he put them in remembrauuce, that when he came from Strauſbourgh hytherhither, hee entred into thys vocatiō as by conſtraynt, and ſeing no great likelyhoode of …
    With rule
    … timorous & fearfull. Alſo he put them in remembrauuce, that when he came from Strauſbourgh hytherhither, hee entred into thys vocatiō as by conſtraynt, and ſeing no great likelyhoode of …

    Theodore Beza · The Life and Death of John Calvin · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Diogenes forthwith aunswered: In dede Phylyp, I am a spye, for I am come hytherhither to espye thy madnes, whiche not beyng cōtented wt the realme of Macedonie, by …
    With rule
    … Diogenes forthwith aunswered: In dede Phylyp, I am a spye, for I am come hytherhither to espye thy madnes, whiche not beyng cōtented wt the realme of Macedonie, by …

    Richard Taverner · The Garden of Wisdom · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … ſo I am no leſſe ſetled in it. then I was at my comminge hytherhither. I loue, quod I, to be plaine with you, & to tell you at the …
    With rule
    … ſo I am no leſſe ſetled in it. then I was at my comminge hytherhither. I loue, quod I, to be plaine with you, & to tell you at the …

    John Bradford · All the Examinations of the Martyr John Bradford · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … that commeth muſt haue this ſetled mind, to bée able to ſay, I come hytherhither to haue a teſtimony that Ieſus Chriſte is my life, that being incorporate into …
    With rule
    … that commeth muſt haue this ſetled mind, to bée able to ſay, I come hytherhither to haue a teſtimony that Ieſus Chriſte is my life, that being incorporate into …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Divinity Humanity and Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ · p. 153 · 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.

A Potion for This Holy Time of Lent A07085

  • Printed
    HytherHither to haue I talked with you of ye holy Sacrament of Penaunce, of Cō …
    With rule
    HytherHither to haue I talked with you of ye holy Sacrament of Penaunce, of Cō …

    Thomas Becon · A Potion for This Holy Time of Lent · Open in the reader

Harmony of the Gospels A16078

  • Printed
    … was seene of so many witnesses, that the miracle might not be doubted of. HytherHither also apperteineth the famousnesse of the place: for we knowe that the assemblyes were …
    With rule
    … was seene of so many witnesses, that the miracle might not be doubted of. HytherHither also apperteineth the famousnesse of the place: for we knowe that the assemblyes were …

    John Calvin · Harmony of the Gospels · p. 234 · Open in the reader