Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50660 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

bayliffeBailiff

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

Puritas changed it: 92 times in 47 works
Consistency: 90.2% (92 of 102)
Reach if approved: ~107 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: bailiff
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 102 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (92 changes in 47 works, 90.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 92)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… charge giuen him, of the execution of that royall word; Hee ſhall bee the BayliffeBailiff of this great Husbandry of his Maſter MEPHIBOSHETH; The Land of Saul, how euer …
With rule
… charge giuen him, of the execution of that royall word; Hee ſhall bee the BayliffeBailiff of this great Husbandry of his Maſter MEPHIBOSHETH; The Land of Saul, how euer …
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 1131 · Open in the reader
Printed
John Preſtman of Weighton in Cumberland, A Sheriffes BayliffeBailiff, being accounted a common ſwearer, one night when he was drunk at Carliſle, went …
With rule
John Preſtman of Weighton in Cumberland, A Sheriffes BayliffeBailiff, being accounted a common ſwearer, one night when he was drunk at Carliſle, went …
Samuel Hammond · Gods Judgments Upon Drunkards Swearers and Sabbath Breakers · p. 78 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Honoured Friend M^rs Elizabeth Carteret, Daughter to Sir Philip Carteret, Knight, Lievtenant Governour and BayliffeBailiff of the Iſle of Jerſy.
With rule
… Honoured Friend M^rs Elizabeth Carteret, Daughter to Sir Philip Carteret, Knight, Lievtenant Governour and BayliffeBailiff of the Iſle of Jerſy.
William Prynne · Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature · p. 55 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the thoughts of it. This Plague, this Feaver, this Ague, may be a BayliffeBailiff to arreſt me, that God hath ſent to carry me bound hand and foot …
With rule
… in the thoughts of it. This Plague, this Feaver, this Ague, may be a BayliffeBailiff to arreſt me, that God hath ſent to carry me bound hand and foot …
John Collinges · Five Lessons for a Christian to Learn · p. 87 · Open in the reader
Printed
… will bee answered so? Is the debt ever the more paide, for making the BayliffeBailiff drunken? The Creditor will set on thee againe. Or it may be thou wilt …
With rule
… will bee answered so? Is the debt ever the more paide, for making the BayliffeBailiff drunken? The Creditor will set on thee againe. Or it may be thou wilt …
John Rogers · The Doctrine of Faith · p. 106 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that woe, that is purſuing him at the heeles. If a man had a BayliffeBailiff or a Sergeant alwayes watching, and dogging of him at the heeles, that he …
With rule
… that woe, that is purſuing him at the heeles. If a man had a BayliffeBailiff or a Sergeant alwayes watching, and dogging of him at the heeles, that he …
Jeremiah Dyke · Two Treatises · p. 237 · Open in the reader
Printed
16 BayliffeBailiff of Etsche within the mountain.
With rule
16 BayliffeBailiff of Etsche within the mountain.
Samuel Clarke · A Brief Description of the Present State of Germany · p. 38 · Open in the reader
Printed
PRrovest, BayliffeBailiff and Councell of our Citie of Edinburgh,
With rule
PRrovest, BayliffeBailiff and Councell of our Citie of Edinburgh,
John Knox · History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland · p. 405 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (10)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 8 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

Printed
… for thou muſt dye; Yet, if he heare thee not, goe to the vnder-bayliffeBailiff of Death, diſeaſe, ſee if he can be wrought to forbeare thee; hee anſwers …
With rule
… for thou muſt dye; Yet, if he heare thee not, goe to the vnder-bayliffeBailiff of Death, diſeaſe, ſee if he can be wrought to forbeare thee; hee anſwers …
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 701 · Open in the reader

Jurisdictions A87798

Printed
… then and there found, feloniouſly took and carried away: Therefore it is commanded, the bayliffeBailiff, &c.
With rule
… then and there found, feloniouſly took and carried away: Therefore it is commanded, the bayliffeBailiff, &c.
John Kitchin · Jurisdictions · p. 98 · Open in the reader