Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4432 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

laiethlayeth

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

Puritas changed it: 546 times in 251 works
Consistency: 99.8% (546 of 547)
Reach if approved: ~575 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: layeth
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 547 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (546 changes in 251 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 546)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
25 The fearfull man laiethlayeth a ſnare before himſelfe: but he, which truſteth in the Lord, is placed on …
With rule
25 The fearfull man laiethlayeth a ſnare before himſelfe: but he, which truſteth in the Lord, is placed on …
Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · p. 277 · Open in the reader
Printed
… greater part of all his life. Let such men therefore take patiently what God laiethlayeth vpō them: for it is not their misery or mishap alone, but hath beene …
With rule
… greater part of all his life. Let such men therefore take patiently what God laiethlayeth vpō them: for it is not their misery or mishap alone, but hath beene …
William Perkins · A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses · p. 184 · Open in the reader
Printed
… liues, than suffer the truth of God to be defaced. Thirdly, that which Christ laiethlayeth to the charge of this church may in sundry respects be charged vpon our …
With rule
… liues, than suffer the truth of God to be defaced. Thirdly, that which Christ laiethlayeth to the charge of this church may in sundry respects be charged vpon our …
William Perkins · Exposition of Revelation 1-3 · p. 116 · Open in the reader
Printed
… long, and a basket crosse bound with diuerse things in it. This cloth he laiethlayeth vpon the backe of the Cow. And then he taketh the Cow by the …
With rule
… long, and a basket crosse bound with diuerse things in it. This cloth he laiethlayeth vpon the backe of the Cow. And then he taketh the Cow by the …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 402 · Open in the reader
Printed
… w^c is y^e worker thereof, by god y^e father & by Chriſt, vpō whō it laiethlayeth holde.
With rule
… w^c is y^e worker thereof, by god y^e father & by Chriſt, vpō whō it laiethlayeth holde.
George Gifford · A Catechism · Open in the reader
Printed
… of God, whosoeuer therefore resisteth power, resisteth the ordinance of God, Rom. 13. more he laiethlayeth downe an other reason drawn from the reuerence that is imprinted by almightye God …
With rule
… of God, whosoeuer therefore resisteth power, resisteth the ordinance of God, Rom. 13. more he laiethlayeth downe an other reason drawn from the reuerence that is imprinted by almightye God …
Job Throckmorton · Some Laid Open in his Colors · p. 82 · Open in the reader
Printed
Thus wee ſee, how Satan laiethlayeth about him both by himſelfe, and by his inſtruments, to put vs to the …
With rule
Thus wee ſee, how Satan laiethlayeth about him both by himſelfe, and by his inſtruments, to put vs to the …
William Jemmat · A Spiritual Trumpet Sounded to Christian Warfare · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… tyraunt? An vnlawfull and vniust ruler, which administreth all things as he list, and laiethlayeth great burdens & yokes vpon y^e people, doing against all conscience & equity. Such a one …
With rule
… tyraunt? An vnlawfull and vniust ruler, which administreth all things as he list, and laiethlayeth great burdens & yokes vpon y^e people, doing against all conscience & equity. Such a one …
Thomas Becon · The Demands of Holy Scripture · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 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.