Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5213 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

mylesmiles

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

Puritas changed it: 233 times in 79 works
Consistency: 89.9% (233 of 259)
Reach if approved: ~272 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: miles
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 259 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (233 changes in 79 works, 89.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 233)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
FINIS. Quod mylesmiles Hogherde.
With rule
FINIS. Quod mylesmiles Hogherde.
Robert Crowley · The Confutation of the Misshapen Answer to a Wicked Ballad · Open in the reader
Printed
… hundred souldiers, he entred the vast River Orenoque, ranging up in Guyana four hundred mylesmiles, but getting little, but his labour for his travell. In like manner, Amyas Preston …
With rule
… hundred souldiers, he entred the vast River Orenoque, ranging up in Guyana four hundred mylesmiles, but getting little, but his labour for his travell. In like manner, Amyas Preston …
Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 92 · Open in the reader
Printed
… lyghtnynges, and a verye terryble crack of thonder followynge, they that were but xv. mylesmiles from Londō Westwarde, hearde no noyse, nor sound therof: the wynde that tyme was …
With rule
… lyghtnynges, and a verye terryble crack of thonder followynge, they that were but xv. mylesmiles from Londō Westwarde, hearde no noyse, nor sound therof: the wynde that tyme was …
William Fulke · A Goodly Gallery · p. 25 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the ende / to close germanes lyppes / which neuer came togyther (they saye) by seuen mylesmiles. First he begāne his hygh thetorykes in subtyle tropes of allegorye with Blynde obstinacie …
With rule
… the ende / to close germanes lyppes / which neuer came togyther (they saye) by seuen mylesmiles. First he begāne his hygh thetorykes in subtyle tropes of allegorye with Blynde obstinacie …
John Bale · A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
… keepe holy y^e Sabboth day: Howbeit not to restreine thee from going aboue two mylesmiles that day, as the Pharisies taught; but to apply thy selfe all that day …
With rule
… keepe holy y^e Sabboth day: Howbeit not to restreine thee from going aboue two mylesmiles that day, as the Pharisies taught; but to apply thy selfe all that day …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 586 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with euery one of the reſt of the members, albeit they lay ten thouſand mylesmiles ſundrie. It lyes not in our power to cauſe all men loue … it lyes …
With rule
… with euery one of the reſt of the members, albeit they lay ten thouſand mylesmiles ſundrie. It lyes not in our power to cauſe all men loue … it lyes …
Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… insomuch as the iourneyes and travels of Abraham recorded in his Story, amounts to 1794. mylesmiles; Iacobs little lesse, whole posteritie was a stranger in Egyp… foure hundred yeares▪ and …
With rule
… insomuch as the iourneyes and travels of Abraham recorded in his Story, amounts to 1794. mylesmiles; Iacobs little lesse, whole posteritie was a stranger in Egyp… foure hundred yeares▪ and …
Thomas Taylor · The Pilgrims Profession · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Act. 1.12. but this is much more then a Sabbath dayes iourney, for it vvas 15 mylesmiles: but ſuppoſe they could proue, that this trauaile, vvas ſome vvorke of neceſſity &c …
With rule
… Act. 1.12. but this is much more then a Sabbath dayes iourney, for it vvas 15 mylesmiles: but ſuppoſe they could proue, that this trauaile, vvas ſome vvorke of neceſſity &c …
Theophilus Brabourne · A Defense of the Sabbath Day · p. 178 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (26)

14 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 13 are listed here. 12 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
… to Worceſter, and Iohn Hooper committed to the Fléete: Doctor Veſey to Exceter, and MylesMiles Couerdall put out. And moreouer ſummoneth a parliament againſt the x. day of October …
With rule
… to Worceſter, and Iohn Hooper committed to the Fléete: Doctor Veſey to Exceter, and MylesMiles Couerdall put out. And moreouer ſummoneth a parliament againſt the x. day of October …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 97 · Open in the reader
Printed
I. Cooke, R. MylesMiles, A. Lane, Iames Aſhley eadem
With rule
I. Cooke, R. MylesMiles, A. Lane, Iames Aſhley eadem
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · Open in the reader

The Confutation of the Misshapen Answer to a Wicked Ballad A19656

Printed
… thou haste (gentele Reader) the ryghte vnderstandynge of al the places of scripture that MylesMiles Hoggard, (wyth his learned counsail) hath wrested to make for the transubstanciacion of the …
With rule
… thou haste (gentele Reader) the ryghte vnderstandynge of al the places of scripture that MylesMiles Hoggard, (wyth his learned counsail) hath wrested to make for the transubstanciacion of the …
Robert Crowley · The Confutation of the Misshapen Answer to a Wicked Ballad · Open in the reader

The Sinful Shameful Lying and Ridiculous Discourse of Samuel Harshnet A19855

Printed
… Byron Knight, Iohn Stanhop, Robert Markham, Richard Perkins Eſquires, Peter Clarke Mayor of Nottingham, MylesMiles Leigh Officiall, Iohn Ireton, Iohn Browne, Robert Fuington, and Thomas Boulton, miniſters & preachers, men …
With rule
… Byron Knight, Iohn Stanhop, Robert Markham, Richard Perkins Eſquires, Peter Clarke Mayor of Nottingham, MylesMiles Leigh Officiall, Iohn Ireton, Iohn Browne, Robert Fuington, and Thomas Boulton, miniſters & preachers, men …
John Darrell · The Sinful Shameful Lying and Ridiculous Discourse of Samuel Harshnet · p. 143 · Open in the reader

A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government A29737

Printed
… into England, with a head of four thousand cattell; having burned Grimseley, Mowhowse, Donford, MylesMiles, Ackforth, Crowling, and many other Townes and Villages.
With rule
… into England, with a head of four thousand cattell; having burned Grimseley, Mowhowse, Donford, MylesMiles, Ackforth, Crowling, and many other Townes and Villages.
Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 24 · Open in the reader

The Figures or Types of Christ A50253

Printed
… The place where they paſſed over, I find in Geographers that it was four MylesMiles broad.
With rule
… The place where they paſſed over, I find in Geographers that it was four MylesMiles broad.
Samuel Mather · The Figures or Types of Christ · p. 198 · Open in the reader

Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 A67927

Printed
… Towne of Ipswich in Suffolcke, by Doctour Hopton being then Byshop of Norwich, and MylesMiles Dunninges, being then his Cauncellour, diuers and sondry godly Protestantes, through the accusation of …
With rule
… Towne of Ipswich in Suffolcke, by Doctour Hopton being then Byshop of Norwich, and MylesMiles Dunninges, being then his Cauncellour, diuers and sondry godly Protestantes, through the accusation of …
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1942 · Open in the reader
Printed
Rob. MylesMiles aliâs Plummer, a Shereman.
With rule
Rob. MylesMiles aliâs Plummer, a Shereman.
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 2047 · Open in the reader
Printed
Then he called Rob. MylesMiles, and said: How fortuneth it that you go not to the church?
With rule
Then he called Rob. MylesMiles, and said: How fortuneth it that you go not to the church?
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 2047 · Open in the reader
Printed
Rob. MylesMiles answered, because I will follow no false Gods.
With rule
Rob. MylesMiles answered, because I will follow no false Gods.
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 2047 · Open in the reader
Printed
Then said MylesMiles: Euen you and such as you are.
With rule
Then said MylesMiles: Euen you and such as you are.
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 2047 · Open in the reader

The Vocation of John Bale to the Bishopric A68157

Printed
… bolde as great Hercules / & after a little talke / fell to flat raylinge of good MylesMiles Couerdale their bishop after this sort. Where is that heretyke knaue now (sayth he …
With rule
… bolde as great Hercules / & after a little talke / fell to flat raylinge of good MylesMiles Couerdale their bishop after this sort. Where is that heretyke knaue now (sayth he …
John Bale · The Vocation of John Bale to the Bishopric · Open in the reader
Printed
MylesMiles Couerdale / rayled on .35.
With rule
MylesMiles Couerdale / rayled on .35.
John Bale · The Vocation of John Bale to the Bishopric · Open in the reader