Waiting for reviewi / jCandidate #5728 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

iestsjests

i standing for j: Iesus → Jesus, iudge → judge.

Puritas changed it: 175 times in 113 works
Consistency: 77.0% (175 of 227)
Reach if approved: ~239 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: jests
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 227 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (175 changes in 113 works, 77.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 175)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… eſpecially the ſtage, which is a little world of wickednes, is full of Scripture ieſtsjests; it would cauſe a mans hayre to ſtand vpright to heare how ſome pleaſe …
With rule
… eſpecially the ſtage, which is a little world of wickednes, is full of Scripture ieſtsjests; it would cauſe a mans hayre to ſtand vpright to heare how ſome pleaſe …
John Smyth · A Pattern of True Prayer · p. 79 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vnder feete; yea, turne againe, and rend their reprouers with scoffes and scornes, making iestsjests and songs on their Alebench: Yet may some young ones bee deterred, and some …
With rule
… vnder feete; yea, turne againe, and rend their reprouers with scoffes and scornes, making iestsjests and songs on their Alebench: Yet may some young ones bee deterred, and some …
Samuel Ward · Woe to Drunkards(1) · Open in the reader
Printed
1. All their malice, and rancour; all their bitter words and scornefull iestsjests; all their bloudy, mercilesse mischiefes, and machinations against the power of preaching, and Gods …
With rule
1. All their malice, and rancour; all their bitter words and scornefull iestsjests; all their bloudy, mercilesse mischiefes, and machinations against the power of preaching, and Gods …
Robert Bolton · Comforting Afflicted Consciences · p. 56 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Ephes. 5. 4. viz. filthy speaking, foolish talking and iesting. By iesting he meanes those biting iestsjests, that vnder pretence of shewing wittines, or conceit, doe secretly leaue disgrace vpon the …
With rule
… Ephes. 5. 4. viz. filthy speaking, foolish talking and iesting. By iesting he meanes those biting iestsjests, that vnder pretence of shewing wittines, or conceit, doe secretly leaue disgrace vpon the …
Nicholas Byfield · The Marrow of the Oracles of God · p. 581 · Open in the reader
Printed
3 When wee make iestsjests thereof.
With rule
3 When wee make iestsjests thereof.
Thomas Cooper · The Christians Daily Sacrifice · p. 90 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to vice, as wee may see by their tractablenesse in any prophane or scurrile iestsjests must make vs take aduantage, and exercise this aptnesse in such things that are …
With rule
… to vice, as wee may see by their tractablenesse in any prophane or scurrile iestsjests must make vs take aduantage, and exercise this aptnesse in such things that are …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 663 · Open in the reader
Printed
Further, take heede least thou dost either make or recite the iestsjests which are contriued out of the phrases of Scripture: which are very many and …
With rule
Further, take heede least thou dost either make or recite the iestsjests which are contriued out of the phrases of Scripture: which are very many and …
William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 720 · Open in the reader
Printed
… reiect the water he offers her? how doth ſhe ſcoffe and frumpe, and breake ieſtsjests vpon him, before ſhee is conuicted, and throughly touched for her ſinne.
With rule
… reiect the water he offers her? how doth ſhe ſcoffe and frumpe, and breake ieſtsjests vpon him, before ſhee is conuicted, and throughly touched for her ſinne.
Nehemiah Rogers · The True Convert · p. 10 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (52)

27 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 15 are listed here. 25 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Works A02178

Printed
IestsJests, 20. foolish …estings. 52
With rule
IestsJests, 20. foolish …estings. 52
Richard Greenham · Works · Open in the reader

Survey and Censure of Mr Cozens A10177

Printed
… all wickednesse and prophannesse whatsoeuer; If prophane, lasciuious, and friuolous Ballades, Poems, Tales, and IestsJests: or bitter and inuectiue Treatises, against the practise, power, profession, and Professors of Religion …
With rule
… all wickednesse and prophannesse whatsoeuer; If prophane, lasciuious, and friuolous Ballades, Poems, Tales, and IestsJests: or bitter and inuectiue Treatises, against the practise, power, profession, and Professors of Religion …
William Prynne · Survey and Censure of Mr Cozens · p. 88 · Open in the reader

The Players Scourge A10187

Printed
… which I might enumerate, prohibit, and condemne all lasciuious Dauncing, all scurrilous Songs, and IestsJests, with sundry other Sportes… and Mer…ments, because they were the Recreations, Ceremonies, and …
With rule
… which I might enumerate, prohibit, and condemne all lasciuious Dauncing, all scurrilous Songs, and IestsJests, with sundry other Sportes… and Mer…ments, because they were the Recreations, Ceremonies, and …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… these Pagans haue vtterly condem…ed all filthie, Scurrilous, Vncha…t, and Amorous speaches, IestsJests, and Poemes, as misbeseeming Chast, and Modest eyes, or Lips, or Eares; my Maior …
With rule
… these Pagans haue vtterly condem…ed all filthie, Scurrilous, Vncha…t, and Amorous speaches, IestsJests, and Poemes, as misbeseeming Chast, and Modest eyes, or Lips, or Eares; my Maior …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 63 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vsually represented to vs on the Theater: together with all those Obscene, and filthie IestsJests; those Scurrilous, and beastly passages, those quaint, Subtile, Rhetoricall, and Flexanimous streines of contemplatiue …
With rule
… vsually represented to vs on the Theater: together with all those Obscene, and filthie IestsJests; those Scurrilous, and beastly passages, those quaint, Subtile, Rhetoricall, and Flexanimous streines of contemplatiue …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 65 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the memory shall be left in Italy of the Tumblers, Trewands, Pipers, Singers of IestsJests, Taberers, Crowders, Dancers, Mummers, Iesters, and Iuglers, rather then the renowne of Captaines, with …
With rule
… the memory shall be left in Italy of the Tumblers, Trewands, Pipers, Singers of IestsJests, Taberers, Crowders, Dancers, Mummers, Iesters, and Iuglers, rather then the renowne of Captaines, with …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 312 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their mindes, their memories, and mouthes full fraught with amorous ribaldrous panderly Histories, Pastorals, IestsJests, discourses, and witty, though filthy obscenities from day to day; (the case of all …
With rule
… their mindes, their memories, and mouthes full fraught with amorous ribaldrous panderly Histories, Pastorals, IestsJests, discourses, and witty, though filthy obscenities from day to day; (the case of all …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 907 · Open in the reader

Abuses Stripped and Whipped A15623

Printed
We would not dare our IestsJests of that to make,
With rule
We would not dare our IestsJests of that to make,
George Wither · Abuses Stripped and Whipped · Open in the reader

The Christians Heavenly Treasure A17320

Printed
… the Pulpit the Theater, the Preachers are their fooles, and Scripture phrases are their IestsJests, to make themselues merry withall. And others goe to the Lords house as children …
With rule
… the Pulpit the Theater, the Preachers are their fooles, and Scripture phrases are their IestsJests, to make themselues merry withall. And others goe to the Lords house as children …
William Burton · The Christians Heavenly Treasure · Open in the reader
Printed
… countenance, thy company, & all will bewray it. Out of the mouth will flie vnsauery IestsJests, thy mind will run like a wilde horse vp and downe in the world …
With rule
… countenance, thy company, & all will bewray it. Out of the mouth will flie vnsauery IestsJests, thy mind will run like a wilde horse vp and downe in the world …
William Burton · The Christians Heavenly Treasure · p. 73 · Open in the reader

Sermon of Commemoration of the Lady Danvers Late Wife A20648

Printed
… times a scorne cuts deeper then a sword. Lucian wounded Religion more by making IestsJests at it, than Arius, or Pelagius, or Nestorius, with making Arguments against it. For …
With rule
… times a scorne cuts deeper then a sword. Lucian wounded Religion more by making IestsJests at it, than Arius, or Pelagius, or Nestorius, with making Arguments against it. For …
John Donne · Sermon of Commemoration of the Lady Danvers Late Wife · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and Libells, and scurrill and scornfull iestsjests, against any point of Religion; Scornes and IestsJests are easilier apprehended, and vnderstood by vulgar & ordinary capacities, then Arguments are; and then …
With rule
… and Libells, and scurrill and scornfull iestsjests, against any point of Religion; Scornes and IestsJests are easilier apprehended, and vnderstood by vulgar & ordinary capacities, then Arguments are; and then …
John Donne · Sermon of Commemoration of the Lady Danvers Late Wife · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… then Arguments doe. It is the height of Iobs complaint, that contemptible persons made IestsJests vpon him. And it is the depth of Samsons calamity, that when the Philistins …
With rule
… then Arguments doe. It is the height of Iobs complaint, that contemptible persons made IestsJests vpon him. And it is the depth of Samsons calamity, that when the Philistins …
John Donne · Sermon of Commemoration of the Lady Danvers Late Wife · p. 11 · Open in the reader

Micro-Cosmography A21075

Printed
… Taylor, when hee is in conspiracie for the next deuice. He is furnisht his IestsJests, as some wanderer with Sermons, some three for all Congregations, one especially against the …
With rule
… Taylor, when hee is in conspiracie for the next deuice. He is furnisht his IestsJests, as some wanderer with Sermons, some three for all Congregations, one especially against the …
John Earle · Micro-Cosmography · Open in the reader
Printed
… is his worst, and craues your perdon most iniuriously for not Pardoning you. His IestsJests best become him, because they come from him rudely and vnaffected: and hee has …
With rule
… is his worst, and craues your perdon most iniuriously for not Pardoning you. His IestsJests best become him, because they come from him rudely and vnaffected: and hee has …
John Earle · Micro-Cosmography · Open in the reader