Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4709 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

hierarchiehierarchy

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

Puritas changed it: 876 times in 245 works
Consistency: 99.6% (876 of 879)
Reach if approved: ~925 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: hierarchy
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 880 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (876 changes in 245 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 876)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… mockerie. The Provinces may happi… preſume upon ſome purer reformation, and expulſion … the Antichriſtian HierarchieHierarchy; but I proteſt upon my knowledge, from the griefe of my ſoule, that they …
With rule
… mockerie. The Provinces may happi… preſume upon ſome purer reformation, and expulſion … the Antichriſtian HierarchieHierarchy; but I proteſt upon my knowledge, from the griefe of my ſoule, that they …
Alexander Leighton · The Looking Glass of the Holy War · p. 119 · Open in the reader
Printed
The present HierarchieHierarchy reteyned and vsed in England of Archbs, Primates, Lordbps, Metropolitanes, Suffraganes, Deanes, Prebendaries, Canons …
With rule
The present HierarchieHierarchy reteyned and vsed in England of Archbs, Primates, Lordbps, Metropolitanes, Suffraganes, Deanes, Prebendaries, Canons …
Henry Ainsworth · The Confession of Faith of English People in Exile · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
Entertaine the falſe religion of the pope, & deny the receauing of the hierarchiehierarchy, ye do not fullye yeeld vnto popery, & ſubmit your ſelues fully vnto the Antichriſtian …
With rule
Entertaine the falſe religion of the pope, & deny the receauing of the hierarchiehierarchy, ye do not fullye yeeld vnto popery, & ſubmit your ſelues fully vnto the Antichriſtian …
John Penry · Reformation Unjustly Charged as Enemies · Open in the reader
Printed
… according to the paterne of the Roman Empire. The Apoſtle, Act. 20. 19. foretold of this HierarchieHierarchy, as they terme it, of the falſe biſhop, which in tyme became an Antichriſtian …
With rule
… according to the paterne of the Roman Empire. The Apoſtle, Act. 20. 19. foretold of this HierarchieHierarchy, as they terme it, of the falſe biſhop, which in tyme became an Antichriſtian …
Theodore Beza · Concerning a Threefold Order of Bishops · Open in the reader
Printed
… the callings of the Popiſh Cleargy, which they expreſſe by that proud title of HierarchieHierarchy, are in part altogether falſe; that is, ſuch as haue at the firſt bene …
With rule
… the callings of the Popiſh Cleargy, which they expreſſe by that proud title of HierarchieHierarchy, are in part altogether falſe; that is, ſuch as haue at the firſt bene …
Theodore Beza · Propositions and Principles of Divinity Disputed · p. 234 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Aegipt, nor Babylon, nor any nation in the world, ever foūded such a pompous HierarchieHierarchy, such store and varity of Divines, Friers, Priests, Prelats, and religious persons, as this …
With rule
… Aegipt, nor Babylon, nor any nation in the world, ever foūded such a pompous HierarchieHierarchy, such store and varity of Divines, Friers, Priests, Prelats, and religious persons, as this …
Henry Ainsworth · An Arrow Against Idolatry · p. 100 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Primitiue Church, were some necessarie, some profitable, but I speake of the Popish HierarchieHierarchy, in which nothing remaineth but the names. But Bristowe thinketh I do not consider …
With rule
… the Primitiue Church, were some necessarie, some profitable, but I speake of the Popish HierarchieHierarchy, in which nothing remaineth but the names. But Bristowe thinketh I do not consider …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 398 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the same Reall Presence: but is roundlie rejected in the point of Ecclesiasticall HierarchieHierarchy, saying, that hee maintained a verie false Opinion.
With rule
… of the same Reall Presence: but is roundlie rejected in the point of Ecclesiasticall HierarchieHierarchy, saying, that hee maintained a verie false Opinion.
William Guild · Popish Glorying in Antiquity Turned to their Shame · p. 183 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

2 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.

Popish Glorying in Antiquity Turned to their Shame A02358

Printed
… Wyfe of IEHOIDA, wee had not knowne so the Sedulitie and Subtiltie of ANTICHRISTIAN HIERARCHIEHIERARCHY, as nowe wee see traced foorth, and treated of in their owne Historie. Neyther …
With rule
… Wyfe of IEHOIDA, wee had not knowne so the Sedulitie and Subtiltie of ANTICHRISTIAN HIERARCHIEHIERARCHY, as nowe wee see traced foorth, and treated of in their owne Historie. Neyther …
William Guild · Popish Glorying in Antiquity Turned to their Shame · p. 267 · Open in the reader

The Altar of Damascus A17571

Printed
THE Altar of Damascus OR THE PATERN OF THE ENGLISH HIERARCHIEHIERARCHY, AND CHVRCH-Policie obtruded upon the Church of SCOTLAND.
With rule
THE Altar of Damascus OR THE PATERN OF THE ENGLISH HIERARCHIEHIERARCHY, AND CHVRCH-Policie obtruded upon the Church of SCOTLAND.
David Calderwood · The Altar of Damascus · Open in the reader