Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8107 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

saylesail

Two or more mechanical changes in one word: sinne → sin, vnderstande → understand.

Puritas changed it: 374 times in 248 works
Consistency: 89.6% (374 of 417)
Reach if approved: ~444 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sail
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 423 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: 6 places (not counted against it)

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (374 changes in 248 works, 89.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 374)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… are▪ and not vnknowen to this White himself: howsoever he can like now to saylesail in that sea, where putting away a good conscience, he hath concerning the faith …
With rule
… are▪ and not vnknowen to this White himself: howsoever he can like now to saylesail in that sea, where putting away a good conscience, he hath concerning the faith …
Francis Johnson · Inquiry and Answer of Thomas Whites Discovery of Brownism · p. 74 · Open in the reader
Printed
… then a runner, yea they passe away as the shippes that be good vnder saylesail, and as the Egle that flieth to the praye. Seing it is Gods will …
With rule
… then a runner, yea they passe away as the shippes that be good vnder saylesail, and as the Egle that flieth to the praye. Seing it is Gods will …
Thomas Becon · The Sick Mans Salve · p. 300 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ballaced with grauell or sand, to make it sinke into the water, and so saylesail more surely, least floating too high, it should be vnstable: euen so dealeth the …
With rule
… ballaced with grauell or sand, to make it sinke into the water, and so saylesail more surely, least floating too high, it should be vnstable: euen so dealeth the …
William Perkins · A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses · p. 323 · Open in the reader
Printed
… like a counterblaſt of a contrary wind that meetes a Ship in her full ſaylesail, and turnes her courſe another way. Thus it runnes, Wee judged him ſtricken of …
With rule
… like a counterblaſt of a contrary wind that meetes a Ship in her full ſaylesail, and turnes her courſe another way. Thus it runnes, Wee judged him ſtricken of …
Henry Ramsden · A Gleaning in Gods Harvest · p. 104 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for ſaluation: with Gods children, none doth the deede, but what caries vs full ſaylesail to the Mediator of righteouſneſſe. Let Gods children carefully remember, what the Apoſtle here …
With rule
… for ſaluation: with Gods children, none doth the deede, but what caries vs full ſaylesail to the Mediator of righteouſneſſe. Let Gods children carefully remember, what the Apoſtle here …
William Sclater · A Key to the Key of Scripture · p. 343 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thinges, hauing made them a false Byshop by heretikes, they dare bée bolde to saylesail, beyond the Sea, and to cary prophane letters fr…m Schismatiks, vnto the Chayre …
With rule
… thinges, hauing made them a false Byshop by heretikes, they dare bée bolde to saylesail, beyond the Sea, and to cary prophane letters fr…m Schismatiks, vnto the Chayre …
William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · Open in the reader
Printed
… vs patience. The aire is copious, yet admits our respiration. The waters boystrous, yet saylesail we vpon them, against them. But Fire, especially getting the vpper hand, is vnmercifully …
With rule
… vs patience. The aire is copious, yet admits our respiration. The waters boystrous, yet saylesail we vpon them, against them. But Fire, especially getting the vpper hand, is vnmercifully …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
2 And al they that occupy boats, whiries, and scutes, or saylesail vpon the sea, as they which do amōg the wauering multitude are taken for …
With rule
2 And al they that occupy boats, whiries, and scutes, or saylesail vpon the sea, as they which do amōg the wauering multitude are taken for …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (43)

25 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 17 are listed here. 18 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Davids Heinous Sin, Hearty Repentance, Heavy Punishment A01341

Printed
Man is a Shippe, affections the SayleSail,
With rule
Man is a Shippe, affections the SayleSail,
Thomas Fuller · Davids Heinous Sin, Hearty Repentance, Heavy Punishment · Open in the reader

Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion A07769

Printed
… and turmoyle it vpside downe, that euen the best Pylots are fayne to strike SayleSail, and reason it selfe is driuen welnere to forsake the Helue. If M…n …
With rule
… and turmoyle it vpside downe, that euen the best Pylots are fayne to strike SayleSail, and reason it selfe is driuen welnere to forsake the Helue. If M…n …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 333 · Open in the reader

Saint Pauls Triumph A10394

Printed
… and it is a ſpeech borrowed from a Ship at Sea, that is vnder SayleSail, and hath Winde and Tide, and all her Sailes ſpread, that goes a long …
With rule
… and it is a ſpeech borrowed from a Ship at Sea, that is vnder SayleSail, and hath Winde and Tide, and all her Sailes ſpread, that goes a long …
John Randall · Saint Pauls Triumph · p. 108 · Open in the reader
Printed
… will be much dampt in vs, if we goe not along with this full SayleSail, this full perſwaſion: Yea, but ſay the Papiſts, where doe you finde in any …
With rule
… will be much dampt in vs, if we goe not along with this full SayleSail, this full perſwaſion: Yea, but ſay the Papiſts, where doe you finde in any …
John Randall · Saint Pauls Triumph · p. 117 · Open in the reader

A Tossed Ship Making to Safe Harbor A28624

Printed
… filled with all the will of God. It is a Metaphor taken from a SayleSail filled with wind: if the Saile have no winde, the Ship ſtands ſtill and …
With rule
… filled with all the will of God. It is a Metaphor taken from a SayleSail filled with wind: if the Saile have no winde, the Ship ſtands ſtill and …
Samuel Bolton · A Tossed Ship Making to Safe Harbor · p. 8 · Open in the reader

A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government A29737

Printed
… and the winde blowing faire, king Henry weighs Anchor; and with a Fleet of 1200 SayleSail, (Grafton saith, but 140 ships) but Enguerant saith, 1600, attended with six thousand spears, and 24000 Foo …
With rule
… and the winde blowing faire, king Henry weighs Anchor; and with a Fleet of 1200 SayleSail, (Grafton saith, but 140 ships) but Enguerant saith, 1600, attended with six thousand spears, and 24000 Foo …
Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 46 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as an enemy, rather then a Guest. Out of which feare… he presently set SayleSail into FRANCE; where repenting himselfe seriously of his fault, he confessed the whole businesse …
With rule
… as an enemy, rather then a Guest. Out of which feare… he presently set SayleSail into FRANCE; where repenting himselfe seriously of his fault, he confessed the whole businesse …
Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Souldidrs to the number of eleven thousand, of Sea-men about fifteen hundred: setting SayleSail from Plimmouth the fifth day of Aprill, they arrived at the Groyne in Ga …
With rule
… Souldidrs to the number of eleven thousand, of Sea-men about fifteen hundred: setting SayleSail from Plimmouth the fifth day of Aprill, they arrived at the Groyne in Ga …
Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 83 · Open in the reader

Meteors A40528

Printed
It causeth Tempests in the Sea, and Wonderfull great Danger to them that bear SayleSail; whom if it overtake, it bringeth to utter destruction.
With rule
It causeth Tempests in the Sea, and Wonderfull great Danger to them that bear SayleSail; whom if it overtake, it bringeth to utter destruction.
William Fulke · Meteors · p. 68 · Open in the reader

View of the Admiral Jurisdiction A42930

Printed
… of the ſeaven Grecian Sophies) had a Conceit that Navigators and Mariners, when under SayleSail, might not properly be reputed either among the Living or the Dead; and Plutarch …
With rule
… of the ſeaven Grecian Sophies) had a Conceit that Navigators and Mariners, when under SayleSail, might not properly be reputed either among the Living or the Dead; and Plutarch …
John Godolphin · View of the Admiral Jurisdiction · Open in the reader

A Counterpoison A67746

Printed
… STATE OF A CHRISTIAN, lively set forth by an Allegorie of a Shippe under SayleSail.
With rule
… STATE OF A CHRISTIAN, lively set forth by an Allegorie of a Shippe under SayleSail.
Richard Younge · A Counterpoison · p. 392 · Open in the reader

Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature A91224

Printed
The Port to which thy SayleSail; and as the wind
With rule
The Port to which thy SayleSail; and as the wind
William Prynne · Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature · p. 75 · Open in the reader

Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New England N00171

Printed
… from returning themselves, they took the opportunity of the next fair wind of setting SayleSail for Boston, (only turning in to Pemmaquid to see if they could hear any …
With rule
… from returning themselves, they took the opportunity of the next fair wind of setting SayleSail for Boston, (only turning in to Pemmaquid to see if they could hear any …
William Hubbard · Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New England · p. 56 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ten of them shipped themselves in the same, intending for Penchscot; from thence to SayleSail up that River, as far as they could; and then leav…ng their V …
With rule
… ten of them shipped themselves in the same, intending for Penchscot; from thence to SayleSail up that River, as far as they could; and then leav…ng their V …
William Hubbard · Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New England · p. 65 · Open in the reader
Printed
… this morning the wind North East, soon after South, and South West, we sate SayleSail with … Vessels from Black Point, for Portland, but on the East-side of Cape …
With rule
… this morning the wind North East, soon after South, and South West, we sate SayleSail with … Vessels from Black Point, for Portland, but on the East-side of Cape …
William Hubbard · Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New England · p. 66 · Open in the reader
Printed
February the twenty first, this morning the wind North West, we set SayleSail for Kennibeck, and arrived at the Harbours mouth at four a Clock: About Sun …
With rule
February the twenty first, this morning the wind North West, we set SayleSail for Kennibeck, and arrived at the Harbours mouth at four a Clock: About Sun …
William Hubbard · Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New England · p. 67 · Open in the reader
Printed
… them; At a Council of War it was resolved that Major Wa…dern should SayleSail for Penobscot, with two of the Ketches, and part of the Souldiers to seek …
With rule
… them; At a Council of War it was resolved that Major Wa…dern should SayleSail for Penobscot, with two of the Ketches, and part of the Souldiers to seek …
William Hubbard · Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New England · p. 68 · Open in the reader