Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50743 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

bayliffesBailiffs

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

Puritas changed it: 76 times in 42 works
Consistency: 91.5% (76 of 83)
Reach if approved: ~87 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: bailiffs
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 83 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (76 changes in 42 works, 91.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 76)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… in ſundry years) beſides what the Subjects have been forced to pay Sheriffes, Sheriffes-BayliffesBailiffs, (and now an hundred times more to Troopers, and Souldiers, who forcibly levy their …
With rule
… in ſundry years) beſides what the Subjects have been forced to pay Sheriffes, Sheriffes-BayliffesBailiffs, (and now an hundred times more to Troopers, and Souldiers, who forcibly levy their …
William Prynne · Vindication of Old Fundamental Liberties · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… or Town, as ſome to be free, others not: There ſhall not be Mayors, BayliffesBailiffs, Aldermen, Common. Councell-men, nor any Judge or Juſtice of Peace left amongſt us …
With rule
… or Town, as ſome to be free, others not: There ſhall not be Mayors, BayliffesBailiffs, Aldermen, Common. Councell-men, nor any Judge or Juſtice of Peace left amongſt us …
John Canne · The Discoverer · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Realme, upon private credible Informations or complaints, to ſommon, yea, attach men by BayliffesBailiffs, Serjeants, Conſtables, and other Officers, to appeare before them upon generall ſummons, to anſwer …
With rule
… the Realme, upon private credible Informations or complaints, to ſommon, yea, attach men by BayliffesBailiffs, Serjeants, Conſtables, and other Officers, to appeare before them upon generall ſummons, to anſwer …
William Prynne · The Liar Confounded · p. 12 · Open in the reader
Printed
… than he is worth; he dares ſcarſe looke out of the doores whiles the BayliffesBailiffs are about: when the judgements of God are about, the wicked wretch dares not …
With rule
… than he is worth; he dares ſcarſe looke out of the doores whiles the BayliffesBailiffs are about: when the judgements of God are about, the wicked wretch dares not …
John Collinges · Five Lessons for a Christian to Learn · p. 87 · Open in the reader
Printed
… faith, should be condemned as Schismatikes, and deliuered to the secular power, or their BayliffesBailiffs or Shierifs, to be punished accordingly: and that if they were priests or of …
With rule
… faith, should be condemned as Schismatikes, and deliuered to the secular power, or their BayliffesBailiffs or Shierifs, to be punished accordingly: and that if they were priests or of …
Thomas Becon · The Relics of Rome · Open in the reader
Printed
… chiefe Commander the Lord of Hoſts, as well as they. And as Stewards and BayliffesBailiffs vnder our great Lord and Maſter, they muſt appoint their children and ſeruants vnto …
With rule
… chiefe Commander the Lord of Hoſts, as well as they. And as Stewards and BayliffesBailiffs vnder our great Lord and Maſter, they muſt appoint their children and ſeruants vnto …
John Downame · A Guide to Godliness · p. 328 · Open in the reader
Printed
6 BayliffesBailiffs of Ostriche.
With rule
6 BayliffesBailiffs of Ostriche.
Samuel Clarke · A Brief Description of the Present State of Germany · p. 38 · Open in the reader
Printed
… every where have they their spies, their Judasses, their false accusers, their Sommoners, their BayliffesBailiffs, and their pick-thankes, with o…her Officers to bring th…m in. In …
With rule
… every where have they their spies, their Judasses, their false accusers, their Sommoners, their BayliffesBailiffs, and their pick-thankes, with o…her Officers to bring th…m in. In …
William Prynne · The Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy · p. 431 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright A01115

Printed
… other, the Archbiſhop to Bocardo, Ridley to the Shiriffes houſe, and Latimer to the bayliffesBailiffs.
With rule
… other, the Archbiſhop to Bocardo, Ridley to the Shiriffes houſe, and Latimer to the bayliffesBailiffs.
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 112 · Open in the reader
Printed
… y^e ditch ouer againſt Baily Colledge, they were brought foorth by the maior and bayliffesBailiffs. Maiſter Ridley had a faire black gowne, furred and faced with Foynes, ſuch as …
With rule
… y^e ditch ouer againſt Baily Colledge, they were brought foorth by the maior and bayliffesBailiffs. Maiſter Ridley had a faire black gowne, furred and faced with Foynes, ſuch as …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 178 · Open in the reader