Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	worthy_a	write_v	year_n	65	3	4.7613	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93287	The state and dignitie of a secretarie of estates place, with the care and perill thereof, / written by the Right Honourable Robert late Earle of Salisbury. With his excellent instructions to the late Earle of Bedford, for the government of Barwick. A work worthy of memory.	Salisbury, Robert Cecil, Earl of, 1563-1612.; Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598.	1642 (1642)	Wing S387; Thomason E128_31; ESTC R23051	6,715	20

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