Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	act_n	law_n	parliament_n	5,454	5	6.8345	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91234	IX proposals by way of interrogation, to the generall, officers, and souldiers in the army, concerning the justness of their late proceedings in law or conscience against, and contrary to the Parliament, tending to reduce them to their former loyalty and obedience; by discovering the injustice, unreasonableness, and dangerousness of their proceedings and demands, wherein they still persist, onely to pick a quarrell with the Parliament, without any reall cause.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1647 (1647)	Wing P4022; Thomason E396_8; ESTC R201644	7,475	12

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