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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4496 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

custodiecustody

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

Puritas changed it
554 times in 254 works
Consistency
97.3% (554 of 569)
Reach if approved
~598 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: custody
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
569 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (554 changes in 254 works, 97.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 554)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … or Nairos, eate not flesh without licence of the Bramenes. The King committeth the custodiecustody of his Wife to the Bramenes, when hee trauelleth any whither, and taketh in …
    With rule
    … or Nairos, eate not flesh without licence of the Bramenes. The King committeth the custodiecustody of his Wife to the Bramenes, when hee trauelleth any whither, and taketh in …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 419 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … graundsier Israel, the Patriarch? did not the Lord credite vs only with the safe custodiecustody of the Arke of his couenant? Haue not we a promise from God by …
    With rule
    … graundsier Israel, the Patriarch? did not the Lord credite vs only with the safe custodiecustody of the Arke of his couenant? Haue not we a promise from God by …

    John Foxe · A Sermon Preached at the Christening of a Jew · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … thirty pounds. The poore gentlewoman anſwered, Shee had not ſo much money in her cuſtodiecustody; but plate ſhee would deliuer him, ſufficient to raiſe ſuch a ſumme: and accordingly …
    With rule
    … thirty pounds. The poore gentlewoman anſwered, Shee had not ſo much money in her cuſtodiecustody; but plate ſhee would deliuer him, ſufficient to raiſe ſuch a ſumme: and accordingly …

    John Gee · The Foot out of the Snare · p. 70 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … power, that is the remedy of sinne, Repentance? But Repentance is not in our custodiecustody, nor vnder our key, as some thinke. And, therefore, wanting this Oyle of Repentance …
    With rule
    … power, that is the remedy of sinne, Repentance? But Repentance is not in our custodiecustody, nor vnder our key, as some thinke. And, therefore, wanting this Oyle of Repentance …

    Robert Horne · The Christian Governor in the Commonwealth and Private Families · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … self was caryit presoner to it, and that he remanit two yeares there vnder custodiecustody in his ludgeing: bot that euer the promises maid to Ierusalem wer transferred vnto …
    With rule
    … self was caryit presoner to it, and that he remanit two yeares there vnder custodiecustody in his ludgeing: bot that euer the promises maid to Ierusalem wer transferred vnto …

    John Knox · Answer to a Jesuit · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … dealing with my worship / and those that haue had of my bookes in their custodiecustody. Ile make you rue that dealing of your… / vnlesse you leaue it. I may …
    With rule
    … dealing with my worship / and those that haue had of my bookes in their custodiecustody. Ile make you rue that dealing of your… / vnlesse you leaue it. I may …

    Martin Marprelate · Read John Bridges · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … man hath nothing left, to ſeize upon his body, to commit him to ſafe cuſtodiecustody, to lay him up in cloſe priſon: but I pray thee what ſatisfaction can …
    With rule
    … man hath nothing left, to ſeize upon his body, to commit him to ſafe cuſtodiecustody, to lay him up in cloſe priſon: but I pray thee what ſatisfaction can …

    Richard Bernard · The Ready Way to Good Works · p. 362 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … his vnwillingnes to part with it: In the end he left him in the custodiecustody of Quadequina his brother, and came over the brooke, and some twentie men following …
    With rule
    … his vnwillingnes to part with it: In the end he left him in the custodiecustody of Quadequina his brother, and came over the brooke, and some twentie men following …

    William Bradford · Journal of the Beginning of the English Plantation at Plymouth · p. 35 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (15)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 9 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny A07225

  • Printed
    … rating him that he would séeke fauour of the Emperour; and kept him in CustodieCustody, all…wing him but twenty pence a day: and Heldebrand incroched all the reuenewes …
    With rule
    … rating him that he would séeke fauour of the Emperour; and kept him in CustodieCustody, all…wing him but twenty pence a day: and Heldebrand incroched all the reuenewes …

    John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 43 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Jude A09434

  • Printed
    1. CustodieCustody: Reserued in chaines vnder darken.
    With rule
    1. CustodieCustody: Reserued in chaines vnder darken.

    William Perkins · Exposition of Jude · Open in the reader

Two Treatises 3 A29533

  • Printed
    … Right hand, which is both a gracious and a powerfull, a sure and safe CustodieCustody and Protection. And who is it then that shall take them out of his …
    With rule
    … Right hand, which is both a gracious and a powerfull, a sure and safe CustodieCustody and Protection. And who is it then that shall take them out of his …

    John Brinsley · Two Treatises 3 · p. 61 · Open in the reader

A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government A29737

  • Printed
    … and from thence the next day had to the Tower, and committed to safe CustodieCustody. After this, a Parliament was called by the Duke of Lancaster, but in the …
    With rule
    … and from thence the next day had to the Tower, and committed to safe CustodieCustody. After this, a Parliament was called by the Duke of Lancaster, but in the …

    Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 23 · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

  • Printed
    Some of their Rabbins ſay well, that God requires two things concerning his Law; CuſtodieCustody and Worke. CuſtodieCustody in the heart; worke in the execution: Theſe vnſound and ouerly …
    With rule
    Some of their Rabbins ſay well, that God requires two things concerning his Law; CuſtodieCustody and Worke. CuſtodieCustody in the heart; worke in the execution: Theſe vnſound and ouerly …

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 415 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Rabbins ſay well, that God requires two things concerning his Law; CuſtodieCustody and Worke. CuſtodieCustody in the heart; worke in the execution: Theſe vnſound and ouerly Phariſes did neither …
    With rule
    … Rabbins ſay well, that God requires two things concerning his Law; CuſtodieCustody and Worke. CuſtodieCustody in the heart; worke in the execution: Theſe vnſound and ouerly Phariſes did neither …

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 415 · Open in the reader