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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5346 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

episcopacieepiscopacy

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

Puritas changed it
579 times in 109 works
Consistency
94.3% (579 of 614)
Reach if approved
~646 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: episcopacy
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
615 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (579 changes in 109 works, 94.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 579)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … in which King Edward the ſixth, and Queen Elizabeth left it; for wherein hath EpiſcopacieEpiscopacy promoted it? nay rather wherein hath not EpiſcopacieEpiscopacy (by its ſilencing and ſuſpending zealous …
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    … in which King Edward the ſixth, and Queen Elizabeth left it; for wherein hath EpiſcopacieEpiscopacy promoted it? nay rather wherein hath not EpiſcopacieEpiscopacy (by its ſilencing and ſuſpending zealous …

    Zachary Crofton · Saint Peters Bonds Abide · p. 31 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … an abolition of EpiscopacieEpiscopacy, and yet not diminution of Monarchy; but the truth is, EpiscopacieEpiscopacy is a kinde of Monarchie under a Monarchie, and is therein altogether unlike the …
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    … an abolition of EpiscopacieEpiscopacy, and yet not diminution of Monarchy; but the truth is, EpiscopacieEpiscopacy is a kinde of Monarchie under a Monarchie, and is therein altogether unlike the …

    Nathaniel Fiennes · A Speech · p. 5 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … and losses which he sustain'd by so doing, were to him more considerable then EpiscopacieEpiscopacy it self; for all this might Pharaoh have had to say in his excuse …
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    … and losses which he sustain'd by so doing, were to him more considerable then EpiscopacieEpiscopacy it self; for all this might Pharaoh have had to say in his excuse …

    John Milton · Answer to a Book · p. 154 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    Firſt, That EpiſcopacieEpiscopacy is a lawfull, moſt Ancient, holy, and Divine Inſtitution, (I meane, that which is …
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    Firſt, That EpiſcopacieEpiscopacy is a lawfull, moſt Ancient, holy, and Divine Inſtitution, (I meane, that which is …

    William Prynne · Canterburys Doom · p. 232 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … that shee left behinde her a gold ring, and some love tokens, I meane EpiscopacieEpiscopacy, and humane Ceremonies; this was the whores policy to leave a token behinde her …
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    … that shee left behinde her a gold ring, and some love tokens, I meane EpiscopacieEpiscopacy, and humane Ceremonies; this was the whores policy to leave a token behinde her …

    Samuel Rutherford · Sermon 31 January 1644 · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … of Discipline, &c. or for corroboration of new opinions against the same: concerning whether EpiscopacieEpiscopacy, or ceremonies the shadow thereof, which for the peace of the Kirk by heavenly …
    With rule
    … of Discipline, &c. or for corroboration of new opinions against the same: concerning whether EpiscopacieEpiscopacy, or ceremonies the shadow thereof, which for the peace of the Kirk by heavenly …

    David Calderwood · The Speech of the Kirk of Scotland to Her Beloved Children · p. 71 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … in their Judgement the Confession of Faith, as it was professed 1580. doeth consist with EpiscopacieEpiscopacy, whereas Wee by our oath have referred the tryall of this or any other …
    With rule
    … in their Judgement the Confession of Faith, as it was professed 1580. doeth consist with EpiscopacieEpiscopacy, whereas Wee by our oath have referred the tryall of this or any other …

    Alexander Henderson · Protestation of the Noblemen · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … I read of the Ancients, Church Hiſtory, Counſels, &c. And many other Writers for EpiſcopacieEpiscopacy, (Petavius, Sancta Clara Spalatenſis, Dr. Hamond and many more) the more was I confirmed …
    With rule
    … I read of the Ancients, Church Hiſtory, Counſels, &c. And many other Writers for EpiſcopacieEpiscopacy, (Petavius, Sancta Clara Spalatenſis, Dr. Hamond and many more) the more was I confirmed …

    Richard Baxter · A Treatise of Episcopacy · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (35)

33 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 18 are listed here. 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Review and Examination of the Doctrine A39999

  • Printed
    A Confutation Of the First DIALOGUE, Upon the point Of EPISCOPACIEEPISCOPACY.
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    A Confutation Of the First DIALOGUE, Upon the point Of EPISCOPACIEEPISCOPACY.

    Thomas Forrester · Review and Examination of the Doctrine · p. 1 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Doctors might take the Nationall Covenant, and yet debate and vote in relation to episcopacieepiscopacy in the ensuing assembly] I wonder what blurred this mans eyes, that citing pag …
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    … Doctors might take the Nationall Covenant, and yet debate and vote in relation to episcopacieepiscopacy in the ensuing assembly] I wonder what blurred this mans eyes, that citing pag …

    Thomas Forrester · Review and Examination of the Doctrine · p. 32 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Sir, be tender of these Ministers reputation, were they so principled and still owning episcopacieepiscopacy too? this is strange, yea and owning it and promising to defend it in …
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    … Sir, be tender of these Ministers reputation, were they so principled and still owning episcopacieepiscopacy too? this is strange, yea and owning it and promising to defend it in …

    Thomas Forrester · Review and Examination of the Doctrine · p. 36 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Moderator Ordinis causa, to dispose and regulat what belongs to order—is the primitive episcopacieepiscopacy—which he grants to the Doctor, that the Covenant will not strike against—then …
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    … Moderator Ordinis causa, to dispose and regulat what belongs to order—is the primitive episcopacieepiscopacy—which he grants to the Doctor, that the Covenant will not strike against—then …

    Thomas Forrester · Review and Examination of the Doctrine · p. 46 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … making his Doubter tell him [that he bears off the acknowledgement of anyobligation against episcopacieepiscopacy, either in the national, or solemne league, lest he fall under the charge of …
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    … making his Doubter tell him [that he bears off the acknowledgement of anyobligation against episcopacieepiscopacy, either in the national, or solemne league, lest he fall under the charge of …

    Thomas Forrester · Review and Examination of the Doctrine · p. 68 · Open in the reader

The Levites Scourge A41016

  • Printed
    14. Yet for all this, admit that reason of state should inforce the extirpation of episcopacieepiscopacy thus rooted, as it hath been said, both in the royall prerogative and priviledge …
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    14. Yet for all this, admit that reason of state should inforce the extirpation of episcopacieepiscopacy thus rooted, as it hath been said, both in the royall prerogative and priviledge …

    Daniel Featley · The Levites Scourge · p. 55 · Open in the reader

Vindication of the Dissertations Concerning Episcopacy A45476

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    A VINDICATION OF THE DISSERTATIONS CONCERNING EPISCOPACIEEPISCOPACY: From the ANSVVERS, or EXCEPTIONS offered againſt them by the London Miniſters, in their …
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    A VINDICATION OF THE DISSERTATIONS CONCERNING EPISCOPACIEEPISCOPACY: From the ANSVVERS, or EXCEPTIONS offered againſt them by the London Miniſters, in their …

    Henry Hammond · Vindication of the Dissertations Concerning Episcopacy · Open in the reader

Answer to a Book A50898

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    … realm of Scotl. about conforming to a liturgie? Wherfore no Bishop no king? Wherfore episcopacieepiscopacy more agreeable to monarchie, if different perswasions in religion may agree in one duty …
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    … realm of Scotl. about conforming to a liturgie? Wherfore no Bishop no king? Wherfore episcopacieepiscopacy more agreeable to monarchie, if different perswasions in religion may agree in one duty …

    John Milton · Answer to a Book · p. 138 · Open in the reader

The Case of The Accommodation Proposed by the Bishop of Dunblane A51052

  • Printed
    … placing Bishops at his pleasure; and his late granting a Commission of oversight or episcopacieepiscopacy, for the Diocesse of Glasgow, to him who mostly scrupled at a Patent of …
    With rule
    … placing Bishops at his pleasure; and his late granting a Commission of oversight or episcopacieepiscopacy, for the Diocesse of Glasgow, to him who mostly scrupled at a Patent of …

    Robert McWard · The Case of The Accommodation Proposed by the Bishop of Dunblane · p. 7 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … for us, a…ter our most convincing experiences of the woful evills of his episcopacieepiscopacy, and no inferior perswasion, that the way of Presbyterie is of divine appointment, in …
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    … for us, a…ter our most convincing experiences of the woful evills of his episcopacieepiscopacy, and no inferior perswasion, that the way of Presbyterie is of divine appointment, in …

    Robert McWard · The Case of The Accommodation Proposed by the Bishop of Dunblane · p. 124 · Open in the reader

The Canterburians Self-Conviction A68103

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    … an office, it is ſo falſe as any thing can be: That kind of epiſcopacieepiscopacy, wherof the divines ye alleadge ſpeak off, is ſo farre from the preſent Engliſh …
    With rule
    … an office, it is ſo falſe as any thing can be: That kind of epiſcopacieepiscopacy, wherof the divines ye alleadge ſpeak off, is ſo farre from the preſent Engliſh …

    Robert Baillie · The Canterburians Self-Conviction · p. 27 · Open in the reader

Declaration Concerning the Late Tumults in Scotland A68707

  • Printed
    … come. Whereby it is evident, that it was not the reformers intētion to suppresse episcopacieepiscopacy, but that bishops should not use any jurisdiction by the bishop of Rome his …
    With rule
    … come. Whereby it is evident, that it was not the reformers intētion to suppresse episcopacieepiscopacy, but that bishops should not use any jurisdiction by the bishop of Rome his …

    Walter Balcanquhall · Declaration Concerning the Late Tumults in Scotland · p. 333 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … use any jurisdiction by the bishop of Rome his authority; & seeing they did allow episcopacieepiscopacy to cōtinue in the church, that they did not esteeme the same contrary to …
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    … use any jurisdiction by the bishop of Rome his authority; & seeing they did allow episcopacieepiscopacy to cōtinue in the church, that they did not esteeme the same contrary to …

    Walter Balcanquhall · Declaration Concerning the Late Tumults in Scotland · p. 333 · Open in the reader

The Unlawfulness and Danger of Limited Episcopacy A77490

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    THE VNLAVVFVLNESSE and danger of LIMITED EPISCOPACIEEPISCOPACY. VVhereunto is ſubioyned a ſhort reply to the Modeſt advertiſer and calme examinator of …
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    THE VNLAVVFVLNESSE and danger of LIMITED EPISCOPACIEEPISCOPACY. VVhereunto is ſubioyned a ſhort reply to the Modeſt advertiſer and calme examinator of …

    Robert Baillie · The Unlawfulness and Danger of Limited Episcopacy · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Unto the modeſt advertiſement and calme examination of the unlawfulneſſe and danger of limited EPISCOPACIEEPISCOPACY.
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    … Unto the modeſt advertiſement and calme examination of the unlawfulneſſe and danger of limited EPISCOPACIEEPISCOPACY.

    Robert Baillie · The Unlawfulness and Danger of Limited Episcopacy · p. 1 · Open in the reader

Answer to the Animadversions on the Dissertations A87009

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    AN ANSWER TO THE ANIMADVERSIONS ON THE DISSERTATIONS TOUCHING IGNATIƲS'S EPISTLES, and the EPISCOPACIEEPISCOPACY in them aſſerted.
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    AN ANSWER TO THE ANIMADVERSIONS ON THE DISSERTATIONS TOUCHING IGNATIƲS'S EPISTLES, and the EPISCOPACIEEPISCOPACY in them aſſerted.

    Henry Hammond · Answer to the Animadversions on the Dissertations · Open in the reader

Episcopacy by Divine Right Asserted B13858

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    EPISCOPACIEEPISCOPACY BY Divine Right.
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    EPISCOPACIEEPISCOPACY BY Divine Right.

    Joseph Hall · Episcopacy by Divine Right Asserted · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    EPISCOPACIEEPISCOPACY BY DIVINE RIGHT.
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    EPISCOPACIEEPISCOPACY BY DIVINE RIGHT.

    Joseph Hall · Episcopacy by Divine Right Asserted · p. 1 · Open in the reader