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	lord_n	power_n	9,947	5	5.2167	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90975	VValwins vviles: or The manifestators manifested viz. Liev. Col. John Lilburn, Mr Will. Walwin, Mr Richard Overton, and Mr Tho. Prince. Discovering themselves to be Englands new chains and Irelands back friends. Or the hunting of the old fox with his cubs and the picture of the picturers of the Councel of State. Declaring the subtle and crafty wiles the athiesticall blasphemous, soul-murthering principles, and practises of Mr William Walwin, in plentifull instances, confirming the same with some advertisements to Liev. Col. John Liburn, and Mr Tho. Prince. / By a lover of the present and eternall interest of man-kinde. April. 23. 1649. Imprimatur, Henry Whalley.	Price, John, Citizen of London.; Kiffin, William, 1616-1701.	1649 (1649)	Wing P3351; Thomason E554_24; ESTC R205778	28,417	40

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