Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	church_n	england_n	entitle_v	1,993	5	10.1542	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39376	A vindication of the honour of King Charles I against the prodigious calumnies of the regicide, Ludlow, publisht in what he calls A letter from Major-General Ludlow to Sir E.S.	Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.	1691 (1691)	Wing E699; ESTC R19993	3,594	18

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