Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5527 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

taylorstailors

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

Puritas changed it: 229 times in 170 works
Consistency: 96.2% (229 of 238)
Reach if approved: ~250 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: tailors
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 238 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (229 changes in 170 works, 96.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 229)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the Embroderers, the Featherers, the Perfumers; and aboue all as witnesses beyond exception, the TaylorsTailors. If you cast vp the debt-bookes of the other, and the fearefull billes …
With rule
… the Embroderers, the Featherers, the Perfumers; and aboue all as witnesses beyond exception, the TaylorsTailors. If you cast vp the debt-bookes of the other, and the fearefull billes …
Thomas Adams · Mystical Bedlam · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
… unto himselfe, Verily a Whore and a Whore-master, the children of Cookes and TaylorsTailors, and oft-times of Servants, live in so great pleasures: but I a free …
With rule
… unto himselfe, Verily a Whore and a Whore-master, the children of Cookes and TaylorsTailors, and oft-times of Servants, live in so great pleasures: but I a free …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 391 · Open in the reader
Printed
Strange Countries for; Besides our TaylorsTailors know,
With rule
Strange Countries for; Besides our TaylorsTailors know,
George Wither · Abuses Stripped and Whipped · Open in the reader
Printed
… then the disproportion, even the total omission of charity, that in a multitude of TaylorsTailors bills cannot produce the account of one Garment for the poor, that amidst the …
With rule
… then the disproportion, even the total omission of charity, that in a multitude of TaylorsTailors bills cannot produce the account of one Garment for the poor, that amidst the …
Richard Allestree · The Ladys Calling · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… no Man was readier to do; As when he was Master of the Merchant TaylorsTailors company, and on many other occasions he shewed. His Relations tell me that he …
With rule
… no Man was readier to do; As when he was Master of the Merchant TaylorsTailors company, and on many other occasions he shewed. His Relations tell me that he …
Richard Baxter · Faithful Souls Shall Be With Christ · p. 49 · Open in the reader
Printed
… you your ſelves do raiſe the worſt Scandala Magnatum, when you ſuffer Mercers and TaylorsTailors to come, and pull you by their own Coats. (Coats, that be theirs, and …
With rule
… you your ſelves do raiſe the worſt Scandala Magnatum, when you ſuffer Mercers and TaylorsTailors to come, and pull you by their own Coats. (Coats, that be theirs, and …
Daniel Burgess · Counsel to the Rich · p. 114 · Open in the reader
Printed
… may provoke the Saints: I know diverſe ſuch, that live upon found conceits, as TaylorsTailors invent new faſhions, and though they provoke the generalitie of other Saints, yet it …
With rule
… may provoke the Saints: I know diverſe ſuch, that live upon found conceits, as TaylorsTailors invent new faſhions, and though they provoke the generalitie of other Saints, yet it …
Walter Cradock · Gospel Holiness · p. 197 · Open in the reader
Printed
And as to thoſe other Quotations that are ſo often cited from Dr. TaylorsTailors Liberty of Prophecy; I know it is uſually ſaid, That what he wrote therein …
With rule
And as to thoſe other Quotations that are ſo often cited from Dr. TaylorsTailors Liberty of Prophecy; I know it is uſually ſaid, That what he wrote therein …
Henry Danvers · Baptism · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (9)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Present State of London A37482

Printed
7. MERCHANT-TAYLORSTAILORS.
With rule
7. MERCHANT-TAYLORSTAILORS.
Thomas De Laune · The Present State of London · p. 311 · Open in the reader

Doctor Bastwicks Quarters Beaten Up A92974

Printed
… concernments independently in reſpect of one another? (i.) Whether if a Citizen of Merchant-taylorstailors Company, be aggrieved by the carriage of any thing in that Company, he can …
With rule
… concernments independently in reſpect of one another? (i.) Whether if a Citizen of Merchant-taylorstailors Company, be aggrieved by the carriage of any thing in that Company, he can …
John Sadler · Doctor Bastwicks Quarters Beaten Up · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… three more, or the Heads of theſe, as to ſubject the Company of Merchant-taylorstailors to the juriſdiction and arbitrament of thoſe Companies? for this is the caſe here.
With rule
… three more, or the Heads of theſe, as to ſubject the Company of Merchant-taylorstailors to the juriſdiction and arbitrament of thoſe Companies? for this is the caſe here.
John Sadler · Doctor Bastwicks Quarters Beaten Up · p. 5 · Open in the reader