Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4317 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

yllill

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

Puritas changed it: 519 times in 119 works
Consistency: 99.6% (519 of 521)
Reach if approved: ~547 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: ill
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 521 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (519 changes in 119 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 519)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
For your yllill gyse
With rule
For your yllill gyse
Thomas Becon · A New Dialogue Between the Angel of God and the Shepherds in the Field · Open in the reader
Printed
¶ I do deny your cōſequent, affyrminge that it is no ryghte contrarietie. For yllill woorkes are thorowly euyll: oure good workes are nat thorowly good, beynge bothe corrupte …
With rule
¶ I do deny your cōſequent, affyrminge that it is no ryghte contrarietie. For yllill woorkes are thorowly euyll: oure good workes are nat thorowly good, beynge bothe corrupte …
Philipp Melanchthon · The Justification of Man by Faith Only · Open in the reader
Printed
… had in Jsrael, because they now folow Christ into Heaven &c. To omit their yllill framing of the reason, for their most advantage, I answer, they that would so …
With rule
… had in Jsrael, because they now folow Christ into Heaven &c. To omit their yllill framing of the reason, for their most advantage, I answer, they that would so …
Henry Ainsworth · Animadversion to Cliftons Advertisement · p. 120 · Open in the reader
Printed
… quicke … This … the … in the thirde Person. Hee that knoweth the thinges too bee yllill that he doeth, and yer doeth them, he goeth dow… quicke into Hell. Whiche …
With rule
… quicke … This … the … in the thirde Person. Hee that knoweth the thinges too bee yllill that he doeth, and yer doeth them, he goeth dow… quicke into Hell. Whiche …
William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · Open in the reader
Printed
But geue it yllill report.
With rule
But geue it yllill report.
John Bale · Answer to a Papistical Exhortation · Open in the reader
Printed
… not with Christ / ys agaynst hym / callynge that ys good yllill / and that ys yllill good / mynystrynge darkenesse for lyght. Soche lyenge masters as hath brought in sectes of …
With rule
… not with Christ / ys agaynst hym / callynge that ys good yllill / and that ys yllill good / mynystrynge darkenesse for lyght. Soche lyenge masters as hath brought in sectes of …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the multitude? Let the Sermons of your Miniſters beare record, your books alſo and yllill ſpeaches of your Prelates, Iudges, people, &c. Therefore (by that Scripture) you are to …
With rule
… the multitude? Let the Sermons of your Miniſters beare record, your books alſo and yllill ſpeaches of your Prelates, Iudges, people, &c. Therefore (by that Scripture) you are to …
Francis Johnson · Answer to Mr Jacobs Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 161 · Open in the reader
Printed
… yil fauored thing to be the chylde of the deuil: for the deuil … an yllill rewarde to his children, euerlastyng perdition is their inheritāce, whi ehe they shal haue …
With rule
… yil fauored thing to be the chylde of the deuil: for the deuil … an yllill rewarde to his children, euerlastyng perdition is their inheritāce, whi ehe they shal haue …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 82 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 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.

Pilgrimage A10228

Printed
… are Stofferolla; Stofferolla; Ascehad an la, Ascehad an la; Y…lla, Ascehad an la; YllIll lolla. yllill lolla, Mahumed die Rosulla: At the pronouncing of which last wordes, they …
With rule
… are Stofferolla; Stofferolla; Ascehad an la, Ascehad an la; Y…lla, Ascehad an la; YllIll lolla. yllill lolla, Mahumed die Rosulla: At the pronouncing of which last wordes, they …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 453 · Open in the reader