Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5416 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

mercuriemercury

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

Puritas changed it: 243 times in 87 works
Consistency: 99.1% (243 of 245)
Reach if approved: ~257 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: mercury
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 245 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (243 changes in 87 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 243)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… holde no water. Euerie citie inuē …ed a ſtraung god. Saturnus, Iupiter, Iuno Mars, MercurieMercury, and ſuch othere mōſtrous Idoles are newelye inuented whylſe I deſtroie the olde. But …
With rule
… holde no water. Euerie citie inuē …ed a ſtraung god. Saturnus, Iupiter, Iuno Mars, MercurieMercury, and ſuch othere mōſtrous Idoles are newelye inuented whylſe I deſtroie the olde. But …
Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · p. cxlvii · Open in the reader
Printed
And MercurieMercury gaue place to Venus charge,
With rule
And MercurieMercury gaue place to Venus charge,
Alexander Hume · Hymns or Sacred Songs · p. 48 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thirty yeares, or thereby: Iupiter in twelue yeares, March, in two yeares, Venus and MercurieMercury aggreeing with the course of the Sun. The fixed starres also haue their peculiar …
With rule
… thirty yeares, or thereby: Iupiter in twelue yeares, March, in two yeares, Venus and MercurieMercury aggreeing with the course of the Sun. The fixed starres also haue their peculiar …
Robert Pont · The Right Reckoning of Years and Ages of the World · p. 64 · Open in the reader
Printed
… feet, rapt up into the third heaven, taken for a god at Lyſtra, even MercurieMercury the god of Eloquence; if Paul then be exemplified for this humble vaine of …
With rule
… feet, rapt up into the third heaven, taken for a god at Lyſtra, even MercurieMercury the god of Eloquence; if Paul then be exemplified for this humble vaine of …
John Stoughton · Eleven Choice Sermons · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fortune, verse 11. saying good lucke, ghad: which some take for Iupiters starre, some for MercurieMercury, or Mars, alledging that place, Isa. 65.11. They furnish their drinke offerings to Gad: where …
With rule
… fortune, verse 11. saying good lucke, ghad: which some take for Iupiters starre, some for MercurieMercury, or Mars, alledging that place, Isa. 65.11. They furnish their drinke offerings to Gad: where …
Andrew Willet · Commentary on Genesis and Exodus · p. 273 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vertues, as Iohn, Peter, Stephen, &c. And not the names of Idols, as Venus, MercurieMercury, Bacchus, or the strange names of Saxon and Romane infidels, and therefore the Popes …
With rule
… vertues, as Iohn, Peter, Stephen, &c. And not the names of Idols, as Venus, MercurieMercury, Bacchus, or the strange names of Saxon and Romane infidels, and therefore the Popes …
John Boys · The Third Part from John Baptists Nativity · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… yt is not to be dowted / but they had the images of Iupiter / and MercurieMercury whiche they worſhipped in that place: and yet they did not take them for …
With rule
… yt is not to be dowted / but they had the images of Iupiter / and MercurieMercury whiche they worſhipped in that place: and yet they did not take them for …
Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 · p. CLXXXVI · Open in the reader
Printed
… Low countreys. Holland is all Europe in an Amsterdam-print, for Minerva, Mars, and MercurieMercury, Learning, Warre, and Traffick.
With rule
… Low countreys. Holland is all Europe in an Amsterdam-print, for Minerva, Mars, and MercurieMercury, Learning, Warre, and Traffick.
Thomas Fuller · The Holy State · p. 159 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

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