Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	hear_v	read_v	word_n	4,905	5	4.6052	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85317	The first and large petition of the Citie of London and other inhabitants thereabouts: for a reformation in church-government, as also for the abolishment of episcopacie: with a remonstrance thereto annexed, of the many pressures and grievances occasioned by the bishops, and the sundry inconveniences incident to episcopacie. The tyrannie and extortion practised in ecclesiasticall courts, together with the unlawfulnesse of the oath ex officio: preferred to the high and honourable court of Parliament.		1641 (1641)	Wing F973; Thomason E156_20; ESTC R23330	5,182	18

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