Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	ecclesiastical_a	foreign_a	jurisdiction_n	2,075	5	9.5695	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39152	Melinus inquirendum, or, An impartial enquiry into the late proceedings against the bishops wherein the Kings supremacy is vindicated, and his soveraign authority in (matters ecclesiastical) asserted against all the popular arguments of the times : in a letter to a friend / by W. E.	W. E.	1688 (1688)	Wing E43; ESTC R1034	3,374	4

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