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	parliament_n	time_n	3,589	5	4.0808	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56220	A true and perfect narrative of what was done, spoken by and between Mr. Prynne, the old and newly forcibly late secluded members, the army officers, and those now sitting, both in the Commons lobby, House, and elsewhere on Saturday and Monday last (the 7 and 9 of this instant May) with the true reasons, ends inducing Mr. Prynne ... thus earnestly to press for entry, to go and keep in the House as he did, and what proposals he intended there to make for publike peace, settlement, and preservation of the Parliaments privileges / put in writing and published by the said William Prynne ... to rectifie the various reports, censures of this action, and give publike satisfaction ... of his sincere endeavors to the uttermost of his power, to preserve our religion, laws, liberties, the essential rights, privileges, freedom of Parliament, and all we yet enjoy, according to his oaths, covenant, trust, as a Parliament member, against the utter subverters of them ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing P4113; ESTC R937	104,117	112

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