Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	act_n	king_n	parliament_n	3,554	5	6.8839	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87618	A letter from Mr. Robert Iohnston, one of the Elders at Edenborough, directed to Master VVilliam Agard in Cambridge with a petition of the English there inclosed, to the Kings most excellent Majesty. Also Master Agards letter to his friend in London, coneteyning [sic] matters of great moment, tending to the pacification of the miserable distractions of these present times.	Johnston, Robert, one of the elders of Edenborough.; Agard, William.	1642 (1642)	Wing J882A; ESTC R229400	2,378	13

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