The King's Printer Project

Using the search engine gets easier with experience of the orthographical vagaries of King’s Printer documents. It would be impossible to detail all of the alternative spellings, contracted forms and abbreviations that these the documents throw up, but let these few following points serve to indicate what alternative search terms might come in handy if modern orthography leaves you empty-handed.

Modern ‘u’s often appear as Jacobean ‘v’s and vice versa.
Modern ‘i’s often appear as Jacobean ‘j’s and vice versa.
Modern medial ‘i’s sometimes appear as ‘y’s; e.g. ‘byll’ instead of ‘bill’ or ‘notyce’ instead of ‘notice’.
If you can’t find ‘day’, try ‘daie’ or ‘daye’ as search words.
Words ending in ‘-tion’ often appear as words ending in ‘-con’ or ‘-cõn; e.g. ‘examination’ as against ‘examinacon’ or ‘examinacõn’.
Proper names are often spelt in a variety of ways and have to be sought with ingenuity; ‘John Bill’ often appears as ‘John Byll’ or Iohn Bill’ among other things, ‘Dyson’ as ‘Dison’; and Christopher Barker’s first name often appears in its chi-rho form, viz. ‘Χρofer’.