Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5456 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

presbiterspresbyters

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

Puritas changed it: 162 times in 50 works
Consistency: 92.0% (162 of 176)
Reach if approved: ~185 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: presbyters
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 176 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (162 changes in 50 works, 92.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 162)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… yet it is evident that from the firſt entrance of Chriſtian Religion into Scotland, PreſbitersPresbyters alone without Bishops for ſome hundred yeares did governe that Church: and after the …
With rule
… yet it is evident that from the firſt entrance of Chriſtian Religion into Scotland, PreſbitersPresbyters alone without Bishops for ſome hundred yeares did governe that Church: and after the …
Robert Baillie · Review of Brambles Warning Against the Scots Discipline · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
28. They are called PresbitersPresbyters and Elders, a name implying, not their age, but office and dignity, common to …
With rule
28. They are called PresbitersPresbyters and Elders, a name implying, not their age, but office and dignity, common to …
Thomas Hall · Apology for the Ministry and its Maintenance · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Presbyters; and Biſhops when they ordayne in a lawfull manner, doe it onely as PresbitersPresbyters, not as Biſhops; Therefore PresbitersPresbyters are ſuperiour to Biſhops in juriſdiction, order and degree …
With rule
… Presbyters; and Biſhops when they ordayne in a lawfull manner, doe it onely as PresbitersPresbyters, not as Biſhops; Therefore PresbitersPresbyters are ſuperiour to Biſhops in juriſdiction, order and degree …
William Prynne · The Unbishoping of Timothy and Titus · p. 167 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Head of his Body, so did he settle in every particular Church those Bishops, PresbitersPresbyters, or Pastors whom he hath commanded the people to obey as their Rulers, [Heb …
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… Head of his Body, so did he settle in every particular Church those Bishops, PresbitersPresbyters, or Pastors whom he hath commanded the people to obey as their Rulers, [Heb …
Richard Baxter · A Holy Commonwealth · p. 97 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Preſident, and Bertuald Archbiſhop of Britain, with Toby Biſhop of Rocheſter, the Abbats, Abbeſſes, PresbitersPresbyters, Deacons, DVKES, EARLES, all aſſembled together, deliberating about the ſtate of the Churches in …
With rule
… Preſident, and Bertuald Archbiſhop of Britain, with Toby Biſhop of Rocheſter, the Abbats, Abbeſſes, PresbitersPresbyters, Deacons, DVKES, EARLES, all aſſembled together, deliberating about the ſtate of the Churches in …
William Prynne · Truth Triumphing Over Falsehood · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
… belongs unto the Bishops as they are of an Order, and office Superiour unto PresbitersPresbyters, even the Potestas Ordinis & Jurisdictionis is but Civil, and deriv'd from the King.
With rule
… belongs unto the Bishops as they are of an Order, and office Superiour unto PresbitersPresbyters, even the Potestas Ordinis & Jurisdictionis is but Civil, and deriv'd from the King.
Stephen Lobb · The True Dissenter · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Emperours wife had procured. Innocentius sent to Honorius, and Arcadius 5. Bishops, and two PresbitersPresbyters, to procure the appointment of a generall councill, whereinto the cause of Chrysostome might …
With rule
… the Emperours wife had procured. Innocentius sent to Honorius, and Arcadius 5. Bishops, and two PresbitersPresbyters, to procure the appointment of a generall councill, whereinto the cause of Chrysostome might …
Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as you ſuppoſe to be deſperately ſicke, ſick vnto death. Secondly, you ſend not PreſbitersPresbyters, Prieſts: but any one bold Prieſt to anoint them, and pray ouer them. Thirdly …
With rule
… as you ſuppoſe to be deſperately ſicke, ſick vnto death. Secondly, you ſend not PreſbitersPresbyters, Prieſts: but any one bold Prieſt to anoint them, and pray ouer them. Thirdly …
Alexander Cooke · The Abatement of Popish Brags Pretending Scripture to be Theirs · p. 23 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (14)

10 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Father Cotton a Jesuit A19428

Printed
… other worthies of thoſe times) were lifted vp, not onely aboue Presbyters, but Arch-presbiterspresbyters alſo, for theſe reaſons.
With rule
… other worthies of thoſe times) were lifted vp, not onely aboue Presbyters, but Arch-presbiterspresbyters alſo, for theſe reaſons.
Pierre du Moulin Sr · Father Cotton a Jesuit · p. 25 · Open in the reader

A Defense of the Sermon Preached at the Consecration of the Bishop of Bath A20733

Printed
… baptised, it was decreed in the whole world, that one being chosen from the presbiterspresbyters, should be set ouer the rest in euery Church, vnto whom the care of …
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… baptised, it was decreed in the whole world, that one being chosen from the presbiterspresbyters, should be set ouer the rest in euery Church, vnto whom the care of …
George Downame · A Defense of the Sermon Preached at the Consecration of the Bishop of Bath · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Apostles. Not the former because otherwhere he saith that BB. were superiour to presbiterspresbyters rather by the custome of the Church, then any ordinance of God. Whereto I …
With rule
… the Apostles. Not the former because otherwhere he saith that BB. were superiour to presbiterspresbyters rather by the custome of the Church, then any ordinance of God. Whereto I …
George Downame · A Defense of the Sermon Preached at the Consecration of the Bishop of Bath · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… was obserued, that for auoiding of schisme one should be chosen from among the presbiterspresbyters, who should be set ouer the rest, and to whom the whole care of …
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… was obserued, that for auoiding of schisme one should be chosen from among the presbiterspresbyters, who should be set ouer the rest, and to whom the whole care of …
George Downame · A Defense of the Sermon Preached at the Consecration of the Bishop of Bath · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… called PresbitersPresbyters, were also called BB. (but by the way, where were the Lay-presbiterspresbyters then? were they also called BB.?) and that till factions did arise, the Churches …
With rule
… called PresbitersPresbyters, were also called BB. (but by the way, where were the Lay-presbiterspresbyters then? were they also called BB.?) and that till factions did arise, the Churches …
George Downame · A Defense of the Sermon Preached at the Consecration of the Bishop of Bath · p. 22 · Open in the reader

Against Communicating with the Parish Assemblies A26943

Printed
… Biſhops in ſingle Churches are depoſed. 3. The Office of PresbitersPresbyters, is changed into Semi-presbiterspresbyters. 4. Diſcipline is made impoſſible; Mr. Baxter's Church Hiſtory of Biſhops and Council abridged, ch …
With rule
… Biſhops in ſingle Churches are depoſed. 3. The Office of PresbitersPresbyters, is changed into Semi-presbiterspresbyters. 4. Diſcipline is made impoſſible; Mr. Baxter's Church Hiſtory of Biſhops and Council abridged, ch …
Richard Baxter · Against Communicating with the Parish Assemblies · p. 3 · Open in the reader

Review and Examination of the Doctrine A39999

Printed
… name, qualification, work, dutie or ordination of any or dinary Church Officer superior to presbiterspresbyters, and which are not likewayes appropriat to them, who are called Rulers, Governours, Bishops …
With rule
… name, qualification, work, dutie or ordination of any or dinary Church Officer superior to presbiterspresbyters, and which are not likewayes appropriat to them, who are called Rulers, Governours, Bishops …
Thomas Forrester · Review and Examination of the Doctrine · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the order of [presbitery] mentain the word. And again, therefore we must obey these [presbiterspresbyters] who are in the Church, who have their Succession from the Apostles, as we …
With rule
… the order of [presbitery] mentain the word. And again, therefore we must obey these [presbiterspresbyters] who are in the Church, who have their Succession from the Apostles, as we …
Thomas Forrester · Review and Examination of the Doctrine · p. 196 · Open in the reader

Testimonies in All Ages A56148

Printed
… of the Apostles. Epist. 10. ad Symenses. Do ye al …ollow the Colledge of the presbiterspresbyters as Apostles: Now if Presbyters succeed the Apostles in the government o… the Church …
With rule
… of the Apostles. Epist. 10. ad Symenses. Do ye al …ollow the Colledge of the presbiterspresbyters as Apostles: Now if Presbyters succeed the Apostles in the government o… the Church …
William Prynne · Testimonies in All Ages · p. 14 · Open in the reader

Independency Not Gods Ordinance A76080

Printed
… many. And in the 14. of the Acts ver. 23. And when they had ordained them presbiterspresbyters in every Church, &c. many PresbitersPresbyters, a Colledge of them was appointed to every …
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… many. And in the 14. of the Acts ver. 23. And when they had ordained them presbiterspresbyters in every Church, &c. many PresbitersPresbyters, a Colledge of them was appointed to every …
John Bastwick · Independency Not Gods Ordinance · p. 106 · Open in the reader