Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4907 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

espyedespied

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

Puritas changed it: 259 times in 152 works
Consistency: 98.8% (259 of 262)
Reach if approved: ~275 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: espied
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 262 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (259 changes in 152 works, 98.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 259)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… his owne countrymen, the shyppe brake & they were caste vpon lande. And when he espyedespied vpon the shoore certayne mathematicall figures drawn forth in the sande. Frendes, ꝙ he …
With rule
… his owne countrymen, the shyppe brake & they were caste vpon lande. And when he espyedespied vpon the shoore certayne mathematicall figures drawn forth in the sande. Frendes, ꝙ he …
Richard Taverner · The Garden of Wisdom · Open in the reader
Printed
… perfectly glorified, should still retaine any spots or blemishes, or that they could be espyedespied in so glorious a bodie, which with the brightnes thereof shall obscure the Sunne?
With rule
… perfectly glorified, should still retaine any spots or blemishes, or that they could be espyedespied in so glorious a bodie, which with the brightnes thereof shall obscure the Sunne?
Andrew Willet · A General View of Papistry · p. 624 · Open in the reader
Printed
… case men commonly do, it is not vnlikely but that Amasa thereupon would haue espyedespied it, and so haue stood to his own defence. But yet that this accident …
With rule
… case men commonly do, it is not vnlikely but that Amasa thereupon would haue espyedespied it, and so haue stood to his own defence. But yet that this accident …
Edmund Bunny · Of the Head Cornerstone · p. 320 · Open in the reader
Printed
… decree of the Emperour were baniſhed all Churches they met in fields, which being eſpyedespied of the Emperour, in great rage hee ſtrooke his chiefe captaine with his fiſt …
With rule
… decree of the Emperour were baniſhed all Churches they met in fields, which being eſpyedespied of the Emperour, in great rage hee ſtrooke his chiefe captaine with his fiſt …
Edward Elton · Exposition of Colossians · p. 333 · Open in the reader
Printed
… lesse profit in learning. Which sore as I haue seene of some to be espyedespied, of some to be pitied, euen with desire of redresse; yet haue I not …
With rule
… lesse profit in learning. Which sore as I haue seene of some to be espyedespied, of some to be pitied, euen with desire of redresse; yet haue I not …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 863 · Open in the reader
Printed
Now theſe Impoſtors, leſt their villany and craft ſhould be eſpyedespied, and themſelues, thereby made odious to the world, haue ſet vp one in the …
With rule
Now theſe Impoſtors, leſt their villany and craft ſhould be eſpyedespied, and themſelues, thereby made odious to the world, haue ſet vp one in the …
Robert Jenison · The Height of Israels Heathenish Idolatry · p. 124 · Open in the reader
Printed
… preach to the Commons of England, the jugling of the Papists should soone be espyedespied. God for his mercies sake & for the deare heart-bloud of his most deare …
With rule
… preach to the Commons of England, the jugling of the Papists should soone be espyedespied. God for his mercies sake & for the deare heart-bloud of his most deare …
Thomas Becon · The Displaying of the Popish Mass · p. 79 · Open in the reader
Printed
I perceiue it was either a foxe or a ferne-bush that Genebrard espyedespied. He thought he had séene the whole citie of Rome giuen by Constantine to …
With rule
I perceiue it was either a foxe or a ferne-bush that Genebrard espyedespied. He thought he had séene the whole citie of Rome giuen by Constantine to …
John Rainolds · Conference Between Rainolds and Hart · p. 414 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 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.

A Complete Christian Dictionary A66593

Printed
To see, Gen. 42. 27. …. To view or search …, Josh. 14. 7. EspyedEspied for them, Ezek. 20. 6. that is, appointed it … them by my decree, as the most …
With rule
To see, Gen. 42. 27. …. To view or search …, Josh. 14. 7. EspyedEspied for them, Ezek. 20. 6. that is, appointed it … them by my decree, as the most …
Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 198 · Open in the reader