Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5138 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

penniepenny

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

Puritas changed it: 287 times in 149 works
Consistency: 97.9% (287 of 293)
Reach if approved: ~308 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: penny
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 293 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (287 changes in 149 works, 97.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 287)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… come worke in the Vineyard some part of the day that would haue his penniepenny at night: as for those that neither stirre hand nor foote to doe the …
With rule
… come worke in the Vineyard some part of the day that would haue his penniepenny at night: as for those that neither stirre hand nor foote to doe the …
William Perkins · A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses · p. 419 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is not done to no purpose, but the Lord will repay him againe euery penniepenny and farthing: this (saith hee) will further your account. And when will the Lord …
With rule
… is not done to no purpose, but the Lord will repay him againe euery penniepenny and farthing: this (saith hee) will further your account. And when will the Lord …
John Preston · The Breastplate of Faith and Love · p. 207 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but if thou be prophane like Eſau, thou wilt ſell thy conſcience for a penniepenny: So, I direct mine exhortation to all ſortes of men: to Traffiquers, be not …
With rule
… but if thou be prophane like Eſau, thou wilt ſell thy conſcience for a penniepenny: So, I direct mine exhortation to all ſortes of men: to Traffiquers, be not …
Robert Rollock · The Passion Resurrection and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ · p. 350 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fellowes, if they will paie well for them, else get they none, for, No penniepenny, no Pater noster. And is not this a pretie matter, that they can, not …
With rule
… fellowes, if they will paie well for them, else get they none, for, No penniepenny, no Pater noster. And is not this a pretie matter, that they can, not …
Philip Stubbes · A Motive to Good Works · p. 195 · Open in the reader
Printed
… meales meate? Euen as one that had robbed a man ſhoulde giue him a penniepenny when hee mette him in the high way: Theſe are the cuppes and diſhes …
With rule
… meales meate? Euen as one that had robbed a man ſhoulde giue him a penniepenny when hee mette him in the high way: Theſe are the cuppes and diſhes …
Walter Travers · Answer to a Supplicatory Epistle for the Pretended Catholics · p. 210 · Open in the reader
Printed
… conditions, as that a poore labourer muſt worke with him all harueſt for a penniepenny or two pence a day leſſe then other men would giue.
With rule
… conditions, as that a poore labourer muſt worke with him all harueſt for a penniepenny or two pence a day leſſe then other men would giue.
William Whately · Opening of the Ten Commandments · p. 216 · Open in the reader
Printed
… maketh gift to be an almes-gift) it is not so muc… as a penniepenny giuen, by a sound Christia… in mercie, to a Disciple, because he i… Disciple …
With rule
… maketh gift to be an almes-gift) it is not so muc… as a penniepenny giuen, by a sound Christia… in mercie, to a Disciple, because he i… Disciple …
Robert Horne · The Christian Governor in the Commonwealth and Private Families · Open in the reader
Printed
… minded, as at the pleaſure of the veryeſt rogue in England, for one poore penniepenny, they will be glad on open ſtage to play the ignominious fooles, for an …
With rule
… minded, as at the pleaſure of the veryeſt rogue in England, for one poore penniepenny, they will be glad on open ſtage to play the ignominious fooles, for an …
Martin Marprelate · Theses · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 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
… mouths of the ſacks being open: the names of the poore men were, Hugh PenniePenny, Iohn Foreſtall, Iohn Boy, Iohn Wanderton, William Hayward, and Iohn White, tenaunts to the …
With rule
… mouths of the ſacks being open: the names of the poore men were, Hugh PenniePenny, Iohn Foreſtall, Iohn Boy, Iohn Wanderton, William Hayward, and Iohn White, tenaunts to the …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 307 · Open in the reader

The Bee Hive of the Romish Church A07026

Printed
… grasse, Goats beard, Buckbeanes, Hogges grasse, Toades f…owres, Lybards clawes, Madde hearbe, Toggeworth, PenniePenny male and female, or Man and wife. And next to the Bee hiue, hee …
With rule
… grasse, Goats beard, Buckbeanes, Hogges grasse, Toades f…owres, Lybards clawes, Madde hearbe, Toggeworth, PenniePenny male and female, or Man and wife. And next to the Bee hiue, hee …
Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · p. 341 · Open in the reader

Scottish Proverbs B03446

Printed
PEnniePenny wise, pound foole,
With rule
PEnniePenny wise, pound foole,
David Fergusson · Scottish Proverbs · Open in the reader