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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5286 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

canterburiecanterbury

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

Puritas changed it
409 times in 118 works
Consistency
99.2% (409 of 412)
Reach if approved
~433 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: canterbury
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
412 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (409 changes in 118 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 409)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … haue power ouer the Fire) applying it to Thomas Cranmer, sometime Arch-Bishop of CanterburieCanterbury, who not onely gaue his body to be burned of the fire, for the …
    With rule
    … haue power ouer the Fire) applying it to Thomas Cranmer, sometime Arch-Bishop of CanterburieCanterbury, who not onely gaue his body to be burned of the fire, for the …

    Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 117 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … vnto S. Denys and our Lady. Yet S. Thomas of CanterburieCanterbury was honoured at CanterburieCanterbury in the daies of popish ignorance more then either the worlds Sauiour, or the …
    With rule
    … vnto S. Denys and our Lady. Yet S. Thomas of CanterburieCanterbury was honoured at CanterburieCanterbury in the daies of popish ignorance more then either the worlds Sauiour, or the …

    John Boys · Exposition of the Last Psalm · p. 6 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    He reports how the Pope enioyned by one mandate to the Biſhops of CanterburieCanterbury, Lincolne, and Salisbury, that they ſhould prouide for 300 Romanes in benefices next vacant. And …
    With rule
    He reports how the Pope enioyned by one mandate to the Biſhops of CanterburieCanterbury, Lincolne, and Salisbury, that they ſhould prouide for 300 Romanes in benefices next vacant. And …

    Alexander Cooke · Pope Joan · p. 61 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … in other places, is that Bible which was auctorised by Cranmer their Archbishop of CanterburieCanterbury, and redde all King Edwards time, in their Churches, and (as it seemeth by …
    With rule
    … in other places, is that Bible which was auctorised by Cranmer their Archbishop of CanterburieCanterbury, and redde all King Edwards time, in their Churches, and (as it seemeth by …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 101 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … neede of ayde, he called a Parliament at Yorke, whereunto Iohn Stratford Archbishop of CanterburieCanterbury, denied to come: neither would he suffer any of his Bishops, to make their …
    With rule
    … neede of ayde, he called a Parliament at Yorke, whereunto Iohn Stratford Archbishop of CanterburieCanterbury, denied to come: neither would he suffer any of his Bishops, to make their …

    Alexander Leighton · Appeal to the Parliament · p. 60 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … much leſſe a king) returning into England, and comming neere to the cittie of CanterburieCanterbury, he alighted from his horſe, and putting off all kingly maieſtie, barefoote like a …
    With rule
    … much leſſe a king) returning into England, and comming neere to the cittie of CanterburieCanterbury, he alighted from his horſe, and putting off all kingly maieſtie, barefoote like a …

    Josias Nichols · Abrahams Faith · p. 293 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … of Yorke: by which it is shewed that Richard had landes in Calice, in CanterburieCanterbury, in Kent, in Northumberland, in Ireland, in England, in Garnsey and in Iersey, before …
    With rule
    … of Yorke: by which it is shewed that Richard had landes in Calice, in CanterburieCanterbury, in Kent, in Northumberland, in Ireland, in England, in Garnsey and in Iersey, before …

    John Rainolds · Conference Between Rainolds and Hart · p. 418 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … governed, whereof I haue ſhewed ſuch ſufficient teſtimoniall to my L. the Archbiſhop of CanterburieCanterbury, as is requiſite in ſuch a matter: whereby it muſt needs fall out if …
    With rule
    … governed, whereof I haue ſhewed ſuch ſufficient teſtimoniall to my L. the Archbiſhop of CanterburieCanterbury, as is requiſite in ſuch a matter: whereby it muſt needs fall out if …

    Walter Travers · Supplication to the Privy Council · p. 5 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

0 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.