Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5260 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

bayliffsbailiffs

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

Puritas changed it: 224 times in 81 works
Consistency: 96.9% (224 of 231)
Reach if approved: ~243 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: bailiffs
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 231 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (224 changes in 81 works, 96.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 224)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… doing his Business in the World; he is your Advocate, and you are his BayliffsBailiffs and Factors; Mat. 10.32. Whosoever shall confess me before Men, him will I confess also …
With rule
… doing his Business in the World; he is your Advocate, and you are his BayliffsBailiffs and Factors; Mat. 10.32. Whosoever shall confess me before Men, him will I confess also …
Thomas Manton · Sermons Volume 2 · p. 113 · Open in the reader
Printed
… them ſhall be obedient, reſpondent, nor render rent, but to the King and his BayliffsBailiffs in his name, if it be not of their houſes which they now hold …
With rule
… them ſhall be obedient, reſpondent, nor render rent, but to the King and his BayliffsBailiffs in his name, if it be not of their houſes which they now hold …
William Prynne · Demurrer to the Jews · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… up in Gods Priſon; for God hath mighty Officers of Juſtice, he hath powerful BayliffsBailiffs and Serjeants to Arreſt, to Seize on, to carry away departing Souls, Luke 12.20. foreign, they …
With rule
… up in Gods Priſon; for God hath mighty Officers of Juſtice, he hath powerful BayliffsBailiffs and Serjeants to Arreſt, to Seize on, to carry away departing Souls, Luke 12.20. foreign, they …
Samuel Tomlyns · The Preaching of Christ and the Prison of God · p. 99 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the form of their proceedings: for he hath hereby made them his Vaſſals, BayliffsBailiffs, Goalers, and Executioners, without any inherent power of ruling in their Offices: And this …
With rule
… in the form of their proceedings: for he hath hereby made them his Vaſſals, BayliffsBailiffs, Goalers, and Executioners, without any inherent power of ruling in their Offices: And this …
Thomas Brewer · Gospel Public Worship · p. 168 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and clay, or mire. Indeed the very mire and dirt of the Countrey, the BayliffsBailiffs, Stewards of small liberties, Bum-BayliffsBailiffs, Iaylours, &c. if Beelzebub wanted officers, he needed …
With rule
… and clay, or mire. Indeed the very mire and dirt of the Countrey, the BayliffsBailiffs, Stewards of small liberties, Bum-BayliffsBailiffs, Iaylours, &c. if Beelzebub wanted officers, he needed …
Samuel Ward · Jethros Justice of Peace · p. 61 · Open in the reader
Printed
… packet of Letters, sent by Ridolphus to the Bishop of Ros…e, and by BayliffsBailiffs confession (who brought the letters) being set upon the Rack; so as the Bishop …
With rule
… packet of Letters, sent by Ridolphus to the Bishop of Ros…e, and by BayliffsBailiffs confession (who brought the letters) being set upon the Rack; so as the Bishop …
Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
… peace, and enjoy your lives without slavish fear? He that ows nothing, fears no BayliffsBailiffs, but may (as we use to say) whet his Knife upon the Counter threshold.
With rule
… peace, and enjoy your lives without slavish fear? He that ows nothing, fears no BayliffsBailiffs, but may (as we use to say) whet his Knife upon the Counter threshold.
John Flavel · Englands Duty Under the Present Gospel Liberty · p. 209 · Open in the reader
Printed
… haunted (as with evil Spirits, and Frends of Hell) with the …de and boiſterous BayliffsBailiffs which affright them more than Hobgoblings in the night, who make them ſober, and …
With rule
… haunted (as with evil Spirits, and Frends of Hell) with the …de and boiſterous BayliffsBailiffs which affright them more than Hobgoblings in the night, who make them ſober, and …
John Hickes · The Excellency of the Heavenly Substance · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

4 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.

Balm from Gilead to Recover Conscience A14732

Printed
… are as hammers and swords, and sharpe arrowes in their bretherens hearts: such cheese-bayliffsbailiffs and lamb-bayliffsbailiffs, as vex the poore Countrey-men with vn…ist summons to …
With rule
… are as hammers and swords, and sharpe arrowes in their bretherens hearts: such cheese-bayliffsbailiffs and lamb-bayliffsbailiffs, as vex the poore Countrey-men with vn…ist summons to …
Samuel Ward · Balm from Gilead to Recover Conscience · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and swords, and sharpe arrowes in their bretherens hearts: such cheese-bayliffsbailiffs and lamb-bayliffsbailiffs, as vex the poore Countrey-men with vn…ist summons to the Assises & Sessions …
With rule
… and swords, and sharpe arrowes in their bretherens hearts: such cheese-bayliffsbailiffs and lamb-bayliffsbailiffs, as vex the poore Countrey-men with vn…ist summons to the Assises & Sessions …
Samuel Ward · Balm from Gilead to Recover Conscience · p. 50 · Open in the reader

Jethros Justice of Peace A14745

Printed
… are as hammers and swords, and sharp arrowes in their brethrens hearts: such cheese-bayliffsbailiffs and lamb-bayliffsbailiffs, as vex the poore Countrey-men with vniust summons to the …
With rule
… are as hammers and swords, and sharp arrowes in their brethrens hearts: such cheese-bayliffsbailiffs and lamb-bayliffsbailiffs, as vex the poore Countrey-men with vniust summons to the …
Samuel Ward · Jethros Justice of Peace · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and swords, and sharp arrowes in their brethrens hearts: such cheese-bayliffsbailiffs and lamb-bayliffsbailiffs, as vex the poore Countrey-men with vniust summons to the Assises and Sessions …
With rule
… and swords, and sharp arrowes in their brethrens hearts: such cheese-bayliffsbailiffs and lamb-bayliffsbailiffs, as vex the poore Countrey-men with vniust summons to the Assises and Sessions …
Samuel Ward · Jethros Justice of Peace · p. 50 · Open in the reader