Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	king_n	law_n	people_n	9,348	5	5.3251	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93714	Certain weighty considerations humbly tendered and submitted to the consideration of such of the members of the High Court of Justice for tryal of the King, as they shall be presented unto. There being onely one hundred of the copies appointed to be printed for that purpose By Josuah Sprigge.	Sprigg, Joshua, 1618-1684.	1649 (1649)	Wing S5071; Thomason E540_13; ESTC R203649	8,196	15

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