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	pope_n	power_n	9,357	5	5.4045	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91297	The third part of a seasonable, legal, and historical vindication of the good old fundamental liberties, franchises, rights, laws, government of all English freemen; with a chronological collection of their strenuous defenses, by wars, and otherwise: of all great Parliamentary Councills, synods, and chief laws, charters, proceedings in them; of the publike revolutions of state, with the sins and vices occasioning them; and the exemplary judgements of God upon tyrants, oppressors, perjured perfidious traitors, rebels, regicides, usurpers, during the reigns o [sic] four Saxon and Danish Kings, from the year of our Lord 600. till the coronation of William the Norman, anno 1066. Collected out of our antientest, and best historians, with brief usefull observations on and from them. / By William Prynne esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne.; Seasonable, legall, and historicall vindication and chronologicall collection of the good, old, fundamentall, liberties, franchises, rights, laws of all English freemen. Part 3	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1657 (1657)	Wing P4102; Thomason E905_1; ESTC R207432	279,958	400

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tanta_fw-la comitis_fw-la godwini_fw-la potentia_fw-la which_o he_o thus_o repeat_v hillo_o in_o tempore_fw-la 5._o venerabilis_fw-la pater_fw-la wulgatus_fw-la abbas_n pegelandiae_fw-la diuti●simam_fw-la calumniam_fw-la passus_fw-la ab_fw-la abbatibus_fw-la burgi_n elfrico_fw-la arwino_fw-la &_o leofrico_n abbatiae_fw-la suae_fw-la sedem_fw-la amittens_fw-la tandem_fw-la succubuit_fw-la &_o proh_o nefas_n totum_fw-la situm_fw-la monasterii_fw-la svi_fw-la judicio_fw-la regalis_fw-la curiae_fw-la perdidit_fw-la tantum_n tunc_fw-la potuit_fw-la super_fw-la justitiam_fw-la pecunia_fw-la contra_fw-la veritatem_fw-la versutia_fw-la &_o in_o curia_fw-la regis_fw-la hardecnuti_n godwini_fw-la potentia_fw-la after_o which_o he_o add_v that_o in_o the_o year_n 1048._o when_o the_o say_a abbot_n wulgat_v have_v lose_v the_o site_n of_o his_o monastery_n have_v lay_v the_o foundation_n of_o a_o new_a monastery_n in_o his_o manor_n of_o northburt_n next_o adjoin_v to_o the_o old_a intend_v to_o 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praedicto_fw-la militi_fw-la fernoto_fw-la &_o tanquam_fw-la jus_o suum_fw-la haereditarium_fw-la de_fw-la monachis_fw-la ecclesiae_fw-la sanctae_fw-la pegae_n alienatum_fw-la perpetuo_fw-la &_o sublatum_fw-la quod_fw-la tum_fw-la per_fw-la universum_fw-la regnum_fw-la citius_fw-la fuisset_fw-la cognitum_fw-la scilicet_fw-la abbatum_fw-la de_fw-fr peikirk_n prius_fw-la amisisse_fw-la monast●rium_fw-la suum_fw-la &_o consequenter_fw-la man●rium_n ad_fw-la monasterium_fw-la quondam_a pertinens_fw-la similiter_fw-la edmerus_fw-la mile_n &_o dominus_fw-la de_fw-la holbrok_n calumniam_fw-la mou●t_fw-la contra_fw-la eundem_fw-la abbatem_fw-la &_o monachos_fw-la suos_fw-la de_fw-la manerio_fw-la svo_fw-la de_fw-la maksey_n &_o horsingus_fw-la de_fw-fr wathe_fw-mi calumniatus_fw-la est_fw-la &_o pro_fw-la manerio_fw-la svo_fw-la de_fw-la bading●on_fw-la &_o siwardus_fw-la comes_fw-la de_fw-la manerio_fw-la svo_fw-la de_fw-la bernack_n &_o hugolonus_fw-la thesaurarius_fw-la de_fw-la manerio_fw-la de_fw-fr helieston_n &_o alii_fw-la plures_fw-la de_fw-la aliis_fw-la mane_n iis_fw-la dicto_fw-la monasterio_n dudum_fw-la pertinentibu_fw-la &_o omnes_fw-la eadem_fw-la ratione_fw-la in_o dicta_fw-la causa_fw-la contra_fw-la monachos_fw-la obtinuerunt_fw-la &_o tam_fw-la de_fw-la maneriis_fw-la quam_fw-la de_fw-fr monasteri●_n svo_fw-la dictus_fw-la abbas_n de_fw-fr peibec_n ac_fw-la monachi_fw-la svi_fw-la nequiter_fw-la &_o crud●liter_fw-la ejecti_fw-la sunt_fw-la ut_fw-la nunquam_fw-la alicui_fw-la veniat_fw-la damnum_fw-la solum_fw-la cum_fw-la itaque_fw-la abbas_n wulgatus_fw-la &_o conventus_fw-la suus_fw-la monachi_fw-la scilicet_fw-la &c_n &c_n sic_fw-la de_fw-la monasterio_n destituti_fw-la vagabundi_fw-la &_o in_fw-la proximo_fw-la dispergendi_fw-la in_o omnem_fw-la ventum_fw-la pro_fw-la extrema_fw-la miseria_fw-la fluctuarent_fw-la misertus_fw-la eorum_fw-la piissimus_fw-la r●x_fw-la edwardus_fw-la omnes_fw-la in_o svam_fw-la curiam_fw-la suscepit_fw-la &_o usquequo_fw-la ei●_n provideret_fw-la svam_fw-la capellam_fw-la ac_fw-la aulam_fw-la quotidie_fw-la frequentare_fw-la imperavit_fw-la the_o abbot_n of_o croyland_n die_v soon_o after_o and_o his_o pastoral_a staff_n by_o which_o he_o be_v invest_v be_v present_v by_o the_o prior_n and_o two_o monk_n to_o king_n edward_n the_o king_n thereupon_o immediate_o invest_v wulgatus_n in_o the_o regiment_n of_o the_o monastery_n of_o croyland_n by_o the_o delivery_n of_o the_o pastoral_n staff_n unto_o he_o second_v with_o his_o charter_n of_o donation_n without_o any_o election_n by_o the_o covent_n inter_fw-la praecipua_fw-la monasteria_fw-la tunc_fw-la magno_fw-la nomine_fw-la praedicabatur_fw-la croilandia_n tot_fw-la &_o tanta_fw-la in_o tempore_fw-la danicae_fw-la tribulationis_fw-la in_o regis_fw-la curiam_fw-la semper_fw-la manu_fw-la promptissima_fw-la effuderat_fw-la donaria_fw-la et_fw-la tributa_fw-la a_o multis_fw-la itaque_fw-la annis_fw-la retroactis_fw-la nulla_fw-la 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scientia_fw-la sed_fw-la per_fw-la godwini_fw-la filiorumque_fw-la ejus_fw-la sunt_fw-la commissa_fw-la violentiam_fw-la qui_fw-la regis_fw-la indulgentiam_fw-la videbant_fw-la postea_fw-la tamen_fw-la ad_fw-la eum_fw-la delata_fw-la acriter_fw-la eorum_fw-la exilio_fw-la vindicata_fw-la to_o which_o may_v be_v refer_v that_o story_n of_o walter_n mapaeus_n in_o mr._n cambdens_fw-la britannia_fw-la p._n 374._o 375._o of_o earl_n godwin_n thrust_v the_o abbess_n of_o berkley_n and_o her_o nun_n out_o of_o the_o monastery_n of_o berkley_n which_o he_o beg_v of_o king_n edward_n by_o this_o wile_n he_o cause_v a_o young_a nephew_n of_o his_o feign_a himself_o sick_a to_o lie_v so_o long_o in_o the_o nunnery_n till_o he_o leave_v the_o abbess_n and_o all_o her_o nun_n great_a with_o child_n and_o then_o complain_v of_o &_o prove_v this_o their_o incontinency_n before_o the_o king_n eject_v the_o abbess_n and_o nun_n and_o gain_v the_o nunnery_n and_o manor_n of_o berkley_n to_o himself_o 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