Selected quad for the lemma: act_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
act_n	king_n	parliament_n	petition_n	2,920	5	9.2288	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56207	A short, legal, medicinal, useful, safe, easie prescription to recover our kingdom, church, nation from their present dangerous, distractive, destructive confusion and worse than Bedlam madnesse seriously recommended to all English freemen who desire peace, safety, liberty, settlement. By William Prynne, Esq; a bencher of Lincolns-Inne.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing P4080A; ESTC R219708	6,459	8

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and_o illos_fw-la nobis_fw-la praesentari_fw-la fac_fw-la apud_fw-la london_n in_fw-la octab._n clausi_n pasche_n and_o nos_fw-la 〈◊〉_d ex_fw-la illis_fw-la t●…ibus_fw-la prout_fw-la nob●…s_fw-la placuerit_fw-la vobis_fw-la dabimus_fw-la ad_fw-la 〈◊〉_d et_fw-la interi●…s_fw-la commissimus_fw-la com._n tatum_fw-la illum_fw-la cornub._n cum_fw-la emnibus_fw-la illis_fw-la 〈◊〉_d ad_fw-la 〈◊〉_d dilecto_fw-la et_fw-la fideli_fw-la nost●…o_o reginaldo_n de_fw-fr valle●…orta_fw-la 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d que_fw-fr mind_n ●…mus_fw-la qualinus_fw-la eidem_fw-la reginaldo_n usque_fw-la ad_fw-la piaedictum_fw-la 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d and_o respondentes_fw-la in_fw-la omnibus_fw-la tanquam_fw-la vic._n nostro_fw-la and_o 〈◊〉_d nostro_fw-la 〈◊〉_d in_o 〈◊〉_d etc._n etc._n t._n 〈◊〉_d de_fw-fr bu●…go_fw-la etc._n etc._n 〈◊〉_d westm._n x●…viij_fw-la d●…e_fw-la 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 5_o 0._o 4y_o by_o b●…t_n 10._o h._n 3._o memb._n 4._o r●…x_n 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d d●…rset_n prio●…ibus_fw-la comitibus_fw-la baronibus_fw-la militibus_fw-la 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d and_o omnibus_fw-la aliis_fw-la de_fw-la communibus_fw-la 〈◊〉_d and_o 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d q●…od_a 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d de_fw-la willo_fw-la sil_fw-fr henr._n ad_fw-la v●…c_fw-la nost●…um_fw-la 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d and_o 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d nost●…um_fw-la 〈◊〉_d et_fw-la ideo_fw-la vobis_fw-la mandamu●…_n quo●…_n 〈◊〉_d vic_n nostro_fw-la 〈◊〉_d nobis_fw-la 〈◊〉_d i●…tendentes_fw-la fitis_fw-la and_o 〈◊〉_d in_o 〈◊〉_d etc._n etc._n teste_fw-la rege_fw-la apud_fw-la w●…nton_fw-la x●…vij_fw-la die_fw-la jan._n 5_o by_o mat._n paris_n mat._n westminster_n daniel_n and_o other_o who_o record_n that_o in_o the_o 45_o year_n of_o king_n henry_n the_o 3d_o the_o king_n place_v new_a sher●ff●_n in_o every_o county_n displace_v the_o sheriff_n the_o baron_n and_o people_n have_v make_v whereupon_o the_o people_n in_o eve●y_n county_n manful_o resist_v the_o sheriff_n and_o will_v not_o obey_v nor_o regard_n nor_o answer_v they_o in_o any_o thing_n whereat_o 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