Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	place_n	young_a	youth_n	15	3	7.9934	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93235	The copie of a letter sent from Exeter, by a gentleman of quality, to a worthy friend of his dwelling in London. Shewing, how the enemy have besieged the said city, and how they lye quartered about it: with a true relation of a fight between the citizens and the cavaliers, wherein the citizens took 80. prisoners from them. Moreover how the Earl of Warwick arriving at a place called Apsom, sent to the high sheriffe to raise the county, which he denied; whereupon the Earl sent 3. or 4. small ships, who battered down a fort where the cavaleirs harboured, to the ground, and flew 60. or 70. of them. Together with other remarkable matters, of speciall note and consequence. This is entred into the register book of Stationers Hall, and printed according to order.	I. S.	1643 (1643)	Wing S37; Thomason E65_2; ESTC R295	2,828	8

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