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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4382 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

supremaciesupremacy

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

Puritas changed it
2,021 times in 364 works
Consistency
99.9% (2,021 of 2,023)
Reach if approved
~2,126 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: supremacy
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
2,023 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,021 changes in 364 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,021)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … alſo vnlawfull for the parliament, notwithſtanding al the former exceptions, to tollerate the popiſh ſupremaciesupremacy, euen ouer the miniſters in this land. Why the worde of God by the …
    With rule
    … alſo vnlawfull for the parliament, notwithſtanding al the former exceptions, to tollerate the popiſh ſupremaciesupremacy, euen ouer the miniſters in this land. Why the worde of God by the …

    John Penry · View of Public Wants and Disorders in Wales · p. 30 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Franchiſe, Deputie, or Clarke of the Sherife, &c. muſt take an oth for the ſupremaciesupremacy, and for the true, ſpeedie, and indifferent returning of Writs, and impanelling of Iurors …
    With rule
    … Franchiſe, Deputie, or Clarke of the Sherife, &c. muſt take an oth for the ſupremaciesupremacy, and for the true, ſpeedie, and indifferent returning of Writs, and impanelling of Iurors …

    Henry Finch · Law · p. 230 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Christ, but wée include ye negation of a farre better thing, that is the supremaciesupremacy of the Pope. Whiche by your assertion, is a farre more better thyng, then …
    With rule
    … Christ, but wée include ye negation of a farre better thing, that is the supremaciesupremacy of the Pope. Whiche by your assertion, is a farre more better thyng, then …

    William Fulke · A Confutation of a Popish and Slanderous Libel · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … a man hold or maintaine among them, so long as he acknowledgeth the Popes SupremacieSupremacy, the maine pillar of their faith, and submit himselfe and his workes wholly to …
    With rule
    … a man hold or maintaine among them, so long as he acknowledgeth the Popes SupremacieSupremacy, the maine pillar of their faith, and submit himselfe and his workes wholly to …

    Thomas Gataker · Discussion of the Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation · p. 131 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … take a solemne oath vpon your holie Masse booke, that your Popes Popedome or SupremacieSupremacy was ordained by our Sauiour; I could not beleeue you. Therefore looke not that …
    With rule
    … take a solemne oath vpon your holie Masse booke, that your Popes Popedome or SupremacieSupremacy was ordained by our Sauiour; I could not beleeue you. Therefore looke not that …

    Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 127 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … and ſay Maſſe till their dying day, Alſo that others did acknowledge the Popes ſupremaciesupremacy. I aſke you, doe you meane that they held and vſed the Popiſh Maſſe …
    With rule
    … and ſay Maſſe till their dying day, Alſo that others did acknowledge the Popes ſupremaciesupremacy. I aſke you, doe you meane that they held and vſed the Popiſh Maſſe …

    Henry Jacob · Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 20 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    Antichriste chalengeth supremaciesupremacy, not onely ouer the Clergie, but also ouer Kynges, and Emperours, yea, and ouer …
    With rule
    Antichriste chalengeth supremaciesupremacy, not onely ouer the Clergie, but also ouer Kynges, and Emperours, yea, and ouer …

    Thomas Becon · The Acts of Christ and Antichrist · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … ſeat, he be afterward inaugurate and crowned by the Pope: for manifeſtatiō of which ſupremaciesupremacy, Pope Coeleſtine, crowning the Emperour Henrie with his hand, hee afterward with his foote …
    With rule
    … ſeat, he be afterward inaugurate and crowned by the Pope: for manifeſtatiō of which ſupremaciesupremacy, Pope Coeleſtine, crowning the Emperour Henrie with his hand, hee afterward with his foote …

    John Napier · The Whole Revelation of John in Two Treatises · p. 176 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 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.