Selected quad for the lemma: act_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
act_n	continue_v	parliament_n	session_n	2,943	5	10.7773	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91243	A plea for the Lords: or, A short, yet full and necessary vindication of the judiciary and legislative power of the House of Peeres, and the hereditary just right of the lords and barons of this realme, to sit, vote and judge in the high Court of Parliament. Against the late seditious anti-Parliamentary printed petitions, libells and pamphlets of Anabaptists, Levellers, agitators, Lilburne, Overton, and their dangerous confederates, who endeavour the utter subversion both of parliaments, King and peers, to set up an arbitrary polarchy and anarchy of their own new-modelling. / By William Prynne Esquire, a well-wisher to both Houses of Parliament, and the republike; now exceedingly shaken and indangered in their very foundations.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1648 (1648)	Wing P4032; Thomason E430_8; ESTC R204735	72,921	83

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duke_n of_o suffolk_n case_n to_o which_o may_v be_v add_v 7_o r._n 2._o nu_fw-la 22_o etc._n etc._n the_o bishop_n of_o norwich_n case_n for_o deliver_v gravelin_n to_o the_o enemy_n placita_fw-la corona_n in_o parl._n 21_o r._n 2._o num_fw-la 1_o to_o 26._o rot._n parl._n 50_o e._n 3._o nu_fw-la 27._o the_o lord_n latymer_n case_n 2_o h._n 6._o rot._n parl._n nu_fw-la 18._o the_o impeachment_n of_o the_o commons_o this_o parliament_n against_o the_o e._n of_o strafford_n and_o archbishop_n of_o canterbury_n who_o be_v prosecute_v by_o the_o commons_o not_o try_v only_o by_o and_o before_o the_o lord_n as_o their_o proper_a judge_n and_o peer_n see_v 4_o e._n 3._o nu_fw-la 14._o 15_o e._n 3._o nu_fw-la 6._o 8._o 44_o 45._o 51._o 17_o