Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50292 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

iaylorJailor

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it: 249 times in 138 works
Consistency: 94.6% (249 of 263)
Reach if approved: ~276 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: jailer
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 263 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (249 changes in 138 works, 94.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 249)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… his reprehender, which if hee doth not satisfie, it will deliuer him to the IaylorJailor. From this euill conscience we must be sprinkled in our hearts, first with faith …
With rule
… his reprehender, which if hee doth not satisfie, it will deliuer him to the IaylorJailor. From this euill conscience we must be sprinkled in our hearts, first with faith …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 650 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Men and brethren what ſhall wee doe? was not there longing? The poore perplexed IaylorJailor which came to Paul and Silas with a crie, Sirs what must I doe …
With rule
… Men and brethren what ſhall wee doe? was not there longing? The poore perplexed IaylorJailor which came to Paul and Silas with a crie, Sirs what must I doe …
Samuel Hieron · Three Sermons · p. 66 · Open in the reader
Printed
… keepes them in that darke cuſtodie of damned Spirits (the Deuill being as a IaylorJailor vnto God (and in the end when Chriſt ſhall come to iudge the quicke …
With rule
… keepes them in that darke cuſtodie of damned Spirits (the Deuill being as a IaylorJailor vnto God (and in the end when Chriſt ſhall come to iudge the quicke …
Paul Baynes · A Help to True Happiness · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hardnesse of their hearts. But you shall see the case quite otherwise in the IaylorJailor; his aff…ightment which the earthquake and the opening of the prison dores had …
With rule
… hardnesse of their hearts. But you shall see the case quite otherwise in the IaylorJailor; his aff…ightment which the earthquake and the opening of the prison dores had …
John Preston · The Golden Scepter Held Forth to the Humble · p. 242 · Open in the reader
Printed
But while I ſhew how the IaylorJailor and many other haue taken ſo great good by the companie and fellowſhip of …
With rule
But while I ſhew how the IaylorJailor and many other haue taken ſo great good by the companie and fellowſhip of …
Richard Rogers · Sermons · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the heart low enough for comfort to be laid upon. When Paul found the IaylorJailor cast downe almost as low as hell, hee stands not now upon further hammering …
With rule
… the heart low enough for comfort to be laid upon. When Paul found the IaylorJailor cast downe almost as low as hell, hee stands not now upon further hammering …
Richard Sibbes · The Souls Conflict With Itself · p. 231 · Open in the reader
Printed
… brethren, what shall we doe? and partly by his works vpon them, as the IaylorJailor, Act. 16. 29, 30. and Manasseh, 2. Chron. 33. 12, 13. God binds him in chaines, and sends him to Babel …
With rule
… brethren, what shall we doe? and partly by his works vpon them, as the IaylorJailor, Act. 16. 29, 30. and Manasseh, 2. Chron. 33. 12, 13. God binds him in chaines, and sends him to Babel …
Thomas Taylor · Davids Learning · p. 111 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Iustice? if the least finger or toe of this body be distorted, I meane IaylorJailor or Sargeant, or any other that should execute Iustice, be remisse and slacke, then …
With rule
… Iustice? if the least finger or toe of this body be distorted, I meane IaylorJailor or Sargeant, or any other that should execute Iustice, be remisse and slacke, then …
Samuel Ward · Jethros Justice of Peace · p. 56 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (14)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 10 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Christian Warfare Part 1 A20752

Printed
… priſon of death, and committed vs to the cuſtodie of Sathan, as vnto a iaylorJailor, to be kept in his bondage, till we had ſatiffied for our ſinnes and …
With rule
… priſon of death, and committed vs to the cuſtodie of Sathan, as vnto a iaylorJailor, to be kept in his bondage, till we had ſatiffied for our ſinnes and …
John Downame · The Christian Warfare Part 1 · p. 277 · Open in the reader
Printed
… now Sathan had no more anthoritie to retaine vs in his captiuitie, then the iaylorJailor hath of holding him in priſon who by the iudge is releaſed, or the …
With rule
… now Sathan had no more anthoritie to retaine vs in his captiuitie, then the iaylorJailor hath of holding him in priſon who by the iudge is releaſed, or the …
John Downame · The Christian Warfare Part 1 · p. 277 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of vtter darkenes, there to remaine in the cuſtody of ſathan our moſt malitious iaylorJailor, till we had fully diſcharged our debt and made full ſatiſfaction to his iuſtice …
With rule
… of vtter darkenes, there to remaine in the cuſtody of ſathan our moſt malitious iaylorJailor, till we had fully diſcharged our debt and made full ſatiſfaction to his iuſtice …
John Downame · The Christian Warfare Part 1 · p. 435 · Open in the reader

Of Domestical Duties A68107

Printed
… excellency in him, and was not allowed: his manner of worſhiping was diuine. The iaylorJailor fell downe before Paul and Silas in acknowledgement of ſome outward eminency in them …
With rule
… excellency in him, and was not allowed: his manner of worſhiping was diuine. The iaylorJailor fell downe before Paul and Silas in acknowledgement of ſome outward eminency in them …
William Gouge · Of Domestical Duties · p. 439 · Open in the reader