Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	act_n	king_n	parliament_n	3,039	5	6.6283	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93211	A Short discourse shewing the great inconvenience of joyning the plantation charters with those of England in the General Act of restoration, and the necessity of having for them a particular act humbly offered to the Parliament on the occasion of that bill : wherein is contained a full answer to a late pamphlet intituled, New-England vindicated, &c. / by a true lover of his country, and a hearty wisher of the prosperity of the said plantations.		1689 (1689)	Wing S3585; ESTC R42874	5,579	4

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